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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3] Monitor command: x-gpa2hva, translate guest
 physical address to host virtual address
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:17:35 +0800
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On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 10:23 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Author: Max Asbock <masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Add command x-gpa2hva to translate guest physical address to host
> virtual address. Because gpa to hva translation is not consistent, so
> this command is only used for debugging.
> 
> The x-gpa2hva command provides one step in a chain of translations from
> guest virtual to guest physical to host virtual to host physical. Host
> physical is then used to inject a machine check error. As a
> consequence the HWPOISON code on the host and the MCE injection code
> in qemu-kvm are exercised.
> 
> v3:
> 
> - Rename to x-gpa2hva
> - Remove QMP support, because gpa2hva is not consistent

Is this patch an acceptable solution for now? This command is useful for
our testing.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying