From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/23] memory: document the memory API
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:44:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2E9AA7.7030501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2DC0BD.8090006@codemonkey.ws>
On 07/25/2011 10:15 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> +Region names
>> +------------
>> +
>> +Regions are assigned names by the constructor. For most regions
>> these are
>> +only used for debugging purposes, but RAM regions also use the name
>> to identify
>> +live migration sections. This means that RAM region names need to
>> have ABI
>> +stability.
> +
>
> I don't think this needs to change for this series, but long term,
> this is something that we need to better think through.
>
> Device ROM is part of the device. It shouldn't be migrated as RAM, it
> should be included in the device state.
Agreed; however I tries to limit the amount of functional change,
especially with anything resembling an ABI.
>
> Would be nice to make this patch #1 in the series.
Done.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 14:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/23] Memory API, batch 1 Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/23] Hierarchical memory region API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 9:35 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/23] memory: implement dirty tracking Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/23] memory: merge adjacent segments of a single memory region Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/23] Internal interfaces for memory API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/23] memory: abstract address space operations Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/23] memory: rename MemoryRegion::has_ram_addr to ::terminates Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 18:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/23] memory: late initialization of ram_addr Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/23] memory: I/O address space support Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/23] memory: add backward compatibility for old portio registration Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/23] memory: add backward compatibility for old mmio registration Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/23] memory: add ioeventfd support Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 15:16 ` malc
2011-07-25 15:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 15:22 ` malc
2011-07-25 15:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 15:38 ` malc
2011-07-25 15:43 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/23] memory: separate building the final memory map into two steps Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:43 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/23] memory: document the memory API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:44 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/23] memory: transaction API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:48 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-26 11:39 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/23] exec.c: initialize memory map Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:55 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/23] ioport: register ranges by byte aligned addresses always Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 10:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/23] pc: grab system_memory Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/23] pc: convert pc_memory_init() to memory API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 19:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/23] pc: move global memory map out of pc_init1() and into its callers Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 20:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 11:02 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/23] pci: pass address space to pci bus when created Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 20:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 21/23] pci: add MemoryRegion based BAR management API Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 20:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 11:06 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 22/23] sysbus: add MemoryRegion based memory " Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 20:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 23/23] usb-ohci: convert to MemoryRegion Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 20:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 20:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/23] Memory API, batch 1 Anthony Liguori
2011-07-26 11:32 ` Avi Kivity
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