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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc/memory.txt: fix typo
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:45:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D84E0E.5000801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9=u6FiqNTw25x3k5uLKZ9QnDqsho2BdfqZ-ybjfRa_fA@mail.gmail.com>



On 25/02/2016 15:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Probably what happened
> was that when the API was being designed it started off with an
> 'unaligned' field, and then later the field name and semantics
> were changed but the docs weren't updated to match. My point was
> that just changing the name without looking at the behaviour we're
> actually implementing isn't correct.

Peter, are you okay with adding your S-o-b and authorship to
this patch?

I'll add a Reported-by for Cao jin, too.

Paolo

diff --git a/docs/memory.txt b/docs/memory.txt
index d0aca05..e44d081 100644
--- a/docs/memory.txt
+++ b/docs/memory.txt
@@ -297,8 +297,9 @@ various constraints can be supplied to control how these callbacks are called:
  - .valid.min_access_size, .valid.max_access_size define the access sizes
    (in bytes) which the device accepts; accesses outside this range will
    have device and bus specific behaviour (ignored, or machine check)
- - .valid.aligned specifies that the device only accepts naturally aligned
-   accesses.  Unaligned accesses invoke device and bus specific behaviour.
+ - .valid.unaligned specifies that the *device being modelled* supports
+    unaligned accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will invoke the
+    appropriate bus or CPU specific behaviour.
  - .impl.min_access_size, .impl.max_access_size define the access sizes
    (in bytes) supported by the *implementation*; other access sizes will be
    emulated using the ones available.  For example a 4-byte write will be
@@ -307,4 +308,4 @@ various constraints can be supplied to control how these callbacks are called:
    accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will be emulated by two aligned
    accesses.
  - .old_mmio can be used to ease porting from code using
-   cpu_register_io_memory(). It should not be used in new code.
+   cpu_register_io_memory() and the like. It should not be used in new code.


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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc/memory.txt: fix typo
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:45:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D84E0E.5000801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9=u6FiqNTw25x3k5uLKZ9QnDqsho2BdfqZ-ybjfRa_fA@mail.gmail.com>



On 25/02/2016 15:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Probably what happened
> was that when the API was being designed it started off with an
> 'unaligned' field, and then later the field name and semantics
> were changed but the docs weren't updated to match. My point was
> that just changing the name without looking at the behaviour we're
> actually implementing isn't correct.

Peter, are you okay with adding your S-o-b and authorship to
this patch?

I'll add a Reported-by for Cao jin, too.

Paolo

diff --git a/docs/memory.txt b/docs/memory.txt
index d0aca05..e44d081 100644
--- a/docs/memory.txt
+++ b/docs/memory.txt
@@ -297,8 +297,9 @@ various constraints can be supplied to control how these callbacks are called:
  - .valid.min_access_size, .valid.max_access_size define the access sizes
    (in bytes) which the device accepts; accesses outside this range will
    have device and bus specific behaviour (ignored, or machine check)
- - .valid.aligned specifies that the device only accepts naturally aligned
-   accesses.  Unaligned accesses invoke device and bus specific behaviour.
+ - .valid.unaligned specifies that the *device being modelled* supports
+    unaligned accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will invoke the
+    appropriate bus or CPU specific behaviour.
  - .impl.min_access_size, .impl.max_access_size define the access sizes
    (in bytes) supported by the *implementation*; other access sizes will be
    emulated using the ones available.  For example a 4-byte write will be
@@ -307,4 +308,4 @@ various constraints can be supplied to control how these callbacks are called:
    accesses; if false, unaligned accesses will be emulated by two aligned
    accesses.
  - .old_mmio can be used to ease porting from code using
-   cpu_register_io_memory(). It should not be used in new code.
+   cpu_register_io_memory() and the like. It should not be used in new code.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-03 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-25  9:32 [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] doc/memory.txt: fix typo Cao jin
2016-02-25  9:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cao jin
2016-02-25 10:00 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2016-02-25 10:00   ` Peter Maydell
2016-02-25 10:05   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Cao jin
2016-02-25 10:05     ` Cao jin
2016-02-25 13:30   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Cao jin
2016-02-25 13:30     ` Cao jin
2016-02-25 14:24     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2016-02-25 14:24       ` Peter Maydell
2016-02-26  2:36       ` [Qemu-trivial] " Cao jin
2016-02-26  2:36         ` Cao jin
2016-03-03 14:45       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-03-03 14:45         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-03 14:54         ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2016-03-03 14:54           ` Peter Maydell

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