[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 10/10] introduce qemu_ram_map

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 04/26/2010 01:49 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:27:30PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> On 04/26/2010 12:59 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>      
>>> Which allows drivers to register an mmaped region into ram block mappings.
>>> To be used by device assignment driver.
>>>        
>> This doesn't make much sense to me.
>>
>> Do you use this like:
>>
>> qemu_ram_map(64k, ptr);
>> assert(qemu_ram_alloc(64k) == ptr);
>>      
> No. hw/device-assignment.c in qemu-kvm mmaps
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/x:y:z/resourcen (the PCI devices memory regions) to
> the guest.
>    

I understand, but how do you use qemu_ram_map() to actually map that 
memory to a given PCI device resource?  I assume you rely on it getting 
put on the front of the list so that the next qemu_ram_alloc() will be 
at that location.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>> If so, I think this is not the best API.  I'd rather see
>> qemu_ram_map() register a symbolic name for the region and for there
>> to be a qemu_ram_alloc() variant that allocated by name.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>
>>