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

Avi Kivity
2011-08-18T15:08:28Z

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.

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