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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RFC128 0/2] 128-bit arithmetic for the memory API
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:24:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318764264-22745-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)

In order to solve the recurring overflow issues with the memory API,
introduce a 128-bit integer type to hold sizes (range 0 - 2^64) and
intermediates.  While the patchset does reduce readability, I believe
it is the only way to prevent overflows emerging in unlikely places in
the code.

Avi Kivity (2):
  Add support for 128-bit arithmetic
  memory: use 128-bit integers for sizes and intermediates

 int128.h |  116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 memory.c |  193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 memory.h |    3 +-
 3 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 int128.h

-- 
1.7.6.3

             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-16 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-16 11:24 Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-10-16 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC128 1/2] Add support for 128-bit arithmetic Avi Kivity
2011-10-16 11:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC128 2/2] memory: use 128-bit integers for sizes and intermediates Avi Kivity
2011-10-16 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC128 3/2] Adjust system and pci address spaces to full 64-bit Avi Kivity
2011-10-17  5:33   ` David Gibson
2011-10-17 10:38     ` Avi Kivity

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