[Qemu-devel] Re: [HACK] make vmmouse work with KVM

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>]

On 08/17/2009 07:00 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:44:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 08/17/2009 05:45 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>> +    cpu_synchronize_state(env, 0);
>>>        env->regs[R_EAX] = vmport_ioport_read(opaque, addr);
>>> +    cpu_synchronize_state(env, 1);
>>
>> This is not needed because the sync is done in vmport_ioport_read, isn't it?
>
> Well... The cpu_synchronize_state could be dropped you are right, but
> here we write R_EAX so the cpu_synchronize_state(env, 1) is necessary.
> It might be slightly cleaner to rename the vmport_ioport_read (any name
> suggestions?) and add a wrapper for register_ioport_read that does the
> cpu_synchronize_state (so it looks similar to vmport_ioport_write).

Yes, that would look best and wouldn't have fooled me. Could 
vmport_ioport_trigger be a decent name?

Paolo

Paolo