Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: fix repeated io emulation

Xiao Guangrong
2011-09-09T02:26:23Z

On 08/18/2011 11:08 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 12:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 09:13 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Xiao Guangrong
>> > <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> > > When kvm emulates repeation io read instruction, it can exit to user-space with
>> > > 'count'> 1, we need to emulate io access for many times
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong<xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> >
>> > The KVM tool is not actually maintained by Avi and Marcelo but by me
>> > and few others. Our git repository is here:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/penberg/linux-kvm
>> >
>> > Ingo pulls that to -tip few times a week or so. Sasha, can you please
>> > take a look at these patches and if you're OK with them, I'll apply
>> > them.
>>
>> Pekka,
>>
>> I can only assume they're right, 'count' isn't documented anywhere :)
>>
>> If any of KVM maintainers could confirm it I'll add it into the docs.
>>
>
> Count is indeed the number of repetitions.
>

Hi Pekka,

Could you pick up this patchset please?