Re: [PATCH -v3] Monitor command: x-gpa2hva, translate guest physical address to host virtual address

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 04/27/2011 06:06 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:17:35PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Anthony?

Yeah, but it should come through qemu-devel, no?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Huang Ying
>>
>>
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