From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIzwF-0008Gz-CG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:47:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIzw9-0005cl-Bj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:47:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIzw9-0005cd-4S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:47:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:49:25 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20130909114925.GA31729@redhat.com> References: <1378725696-13590-1-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com> <1378725696-13590-2-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com> <20130909114123.GC31476@redhat.com> <20130909114855.GF31476@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130909114855.GF31476@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] memory: allow MemoryRegion's priority field to accept negative values List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Anthony Liguori , Jan Kiszka , QEMU Developers , Marcel Apfelbaum On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:48:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:45:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 9 September 2013 12:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:21:35PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > > >> Priority is used to make visible some subregions by obscuring > > >> the parent MemoryRegion addresses overlapping with the subregion. > > >> > > >> By allowing the priority to be negative the opposite can be done: > > >> Allow a subregion to be visible on all the addresses not covered > > >> by the parent MemoryRegion or other subregions. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum > > > > > > Seems harmless enough. > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > > > > No, the idea is good but this version is just broken. > > See the comments I made on the previous version which > > Marcel ignored :-( > > > > -- PMM > > You are right, I missed the bugs. > Good catch, thanks. > So I guess it's only an Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin at this point :)