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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Clarify comments of tb_invalidate_phys_[page_]range
Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2012 11:02:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339149729-26331-2-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339149729-26331-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

They could suggest that all TBs of the page containing the range would
be invalidated.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 exec.c |   22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 1b65859..eacaf3c 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -1076,11 +1076,11 @@ TranslationBlock *tb_gen_code(CPUArchState *env,
 }
 
 /*
- * invalidate all TBs which intersect with the target physical pages
- * starting in range [start;end[. NOTE: start and end may refer to
- * different physical pages. 'is_cpu_write_access' should be true if called
- * from a real cpu write access: the virtual CPU will exit the current
- * TB if code is modified inside this TB.
+ * Invalidate all TBs which intersect with the target physical address range
+ * [start;end[. NOTE: start and end may refer to *different* physical pages.
+ * 'is_cpu_write_access' should be true if called from a real cpu write
+ * access: the virtual CPU will exit the current TB if code is modified inside
+ * this TB.
  */
 void tb_invalidate_phys_range(tb_page_addr_t start, tb_page_addr_t end,
                               int is_cpu_write_access)
@@ -1092,11 +1092,13 @@ void tb_invalidate_phys_range(tb_page_addr_t start, tb_page_addr_t end,
     }
 }
 
-/* invalidate all TBs which intersect with the target physical page
-   starting in range [start;end[. NOTE: start and end must refer to
-   the same physical page. 'is_cpu_write_access' should be true if called
-   from a real cpu write access: the virtual CPU will exit the current
-   TB if code is modified inside this TB. */
+/*
+ * Invalidate all TBs which intersect with the target physical address range
+ * [start;end[. NOTE: start and end must refer to the *same* physical page.
+ * 'is_cpu_write_access' should be true if called from a real cpu write
+ * access: the virtual CPU will exit the current TB if code is modified inside
+ * this TB.
+ */
 void tb_invalidate_phys_page_range(tb_page_addr_t start, tb_page_addr_t end,
                                    int is_cpu_write_access)
 {
-- 
1.7.10

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08 10:02 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] Trivial patches for May 2 to June 8 2012 Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-08 10:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2012-06-08 10:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] trace/simple.c: fix deprecated glib2 interface Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-08 10:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: report missing libraries for virtfs Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-06-11 18:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] Trivial patches for May 2 to June 8 2012 Anthony Liguori

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