From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1] Add declarations for hierarchical memory region API Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:38:11 +0300 Message-ID: <4DD8AF53.7020206@redhat.com> References: <1305814352-15044-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1305814352-15044-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4DD580FD.2030409@codemonkey.ws> <4DD6331E.8000105@redhat.com> <4DD67563.9080803@twiddle.net> <4DD67B2F.5080907@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Richard Henderson , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62834 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab1EVGiU (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2011 02:38:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DD67B2F.5080907@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/20/2011 05:31 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Several alpha system chips MCE when accessed with incorrect sizes. >> E.g. only 64-bit accesses are allowed. > > > But is this a characteristic of devices or is this a characteristic of > the chipset/CPU? The chipset is modelled by a MemoryRegion too. > > At any rate, I'm fairly sure it doesn't belong in the MemoryRegion > structure. > Since it isn't a global property, where does it belong? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.