From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Use ram_addr_t for cpu_get_physical_page_desc (v2)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:22:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FA200F.8080106@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804062241.08188.paul@codesourcery.com>
Paul Brook wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008 23:02:50 Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> uint32_t is the wrong type to use to represent physical addresses.
>> ....
>> /* XXX: temporary until new memory mapping API */
>> -uint32_t cpu_get_physical_page_desc(target_phys_addr_t addr)
>> +ram_addr_t cpu_get_physical_page_desc(target_phys_addr_t addr)
>>
>
> The returned value is still a uint32_t. Changing the function prototype
> without fixing that is just deluding yourself.
>
It's a ram_addr_t in KVM and the large mem patch I posted long ago
changes it to a ram_addr_t. But you're right, it doesn't belong in this
series.
Regards,
Anhtony Liguori
> Paul
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 4:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Use ram_addr_t for cpu_get_physical_page_desc (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-04-05 4:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] PCI DMA API (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-04-05 4:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] virtio for QEMU (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-04-05 4:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] virtio network driver (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-04-05 4:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] virtio block " Anthony Liguori
2008-04-05 4:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] virtio balloon " Anthony Liguori
2008-04-06 6:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] PCI DMA API (v2) Blue Swirl
2008-04-06 15:22 ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-04-06 17:01 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-04-06 17:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-07 0:40 ` Paul Brook
2008-04-07 8:32 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-04-07 15:44 ` Paul Brook
2008-04-07 3:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Use ram_addr_t for cpu_get_physical_page_desc (v2) Paul Brook
2008-04-07 13:22 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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