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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Peter Crosthwaite" <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
	"Grégory ESTRADE" <gregory.estrade@gmail.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Andrew Baumann" <Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>,
	qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] bcm2835_dma: add emulation of Raspberry Pi DMA controller
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:02:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457078568.3574.67.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA83d79ta+-40_M_mXYs9E=eSQMH9jL7kw-UpPLxK-8Kyw@mail.gmail.com>

  Hi,

> I guess a more general approach to the problem would be to have
> a (hopefully easy) way to say "if this has been going on for too
> long then arrange to defer continued processing of it til later,
> and for now resume the guest".

Doable today, by simply applying some limit and if we hit it schedule a
timer to continue later.

uhci emulation does this, but it's basically no extra work there as usb
emulation is timer based _anyway_.

> That's too big a can of worms for
> this patch, though. (And for something that's only used in TCG
> emulation we care much less about malicious guests than for devices
> that can be used with KVM.)

Agree, given the use case this isn't critical by any means.

cheers,
  Gerd

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29 23:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] bcm2835_dma: add emulation of Raspberry Pi DMA controller Andrew Baumann
2016-03-03 14:24 ` Peter Maydell
2016-03-03 14:56   ` Grégory ESTRADE
2016-03-03 16:16   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-03 16:21     ` Peter Maydell
2016-03-03 17:09       ` Andrew Baumann
2016-03-04  8:02       ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]

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