From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/6] Use correct types to enable > 2G support (v2) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:55:08 +0200 Message-ID: <47AF104C.3060401@qumranet.com> References: <1201903921-1125-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <1202114748.30861.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47AED66F.3050201@qumranet.com> <200802101412.27850.paul@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org To: Paul Brook Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200802101412.27850.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Paul Brook wrote: >>> as far as i remember it was used to address something with >>> cpu_physical_memory_rw() probably related to &TARGET_PAGE_SIZE >>> or ~TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, >>> >>> the fact is that i dont know if it ever fixed anything >>> >> It fixes TARGET_PAGE_MASK, defined one line downscreen. >> > > That doesn't really answer the question. What was wrong with the original > definition? > There are many instances of ((physical address) & TARGET_PAGE_MASK) scattered throughout the code. With 64-bit physical addresses, this causes truncation. Are suggesting to fix TARGET_PAGE_MASK directly? I think fixing TARGET_PAGE_SIZE is better as everything else is defined in terms of it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/