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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/5] exec: Support 64-bit operations in address_space_rw
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:56:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E6F6FD.5060208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E6F046.6060900@twiddle.net>

Il 17/07/2013 21:28, Richard Henderson ha scritto:
> On 07/17/2013 11:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I'm still not sure what the bug is (so what the FIXME comment would
>> be)... except of course that there may be bug in access_with_adjusted_size.
> 
> The code here in exec.c is not using access_with_adjusted_size.

It is:

cpu_outb
-> address_space_write
-> address_space_rw
-> io_mem_write
-> memory_region_dispatch_write
-> access_with_adjusted_size

memory_access_size is just returning a length that makes sense when
passed to io_mem_write and ultimately to access_with_adjusted_size.

Paolo

> Unfortunately, access_with_adjusted_size only handles single copies,
> one direction at a time.  We're attempting a sort of "memcpy", which
> calls for some amount of caching across the loop...
> 
> 
> r~
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-17 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-14 22:16 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/5] alpha-softmmu fixes Richard Henderson
2013-07-14 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/5] hw/alpha: Don't use get_system_io Richard Henderson
2013-07-14 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/5] hw/alpha: Don't machine check on missing pci i/o Richard Henderson
2013-07-14 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/5] exec: Support 64-bit operations in address_space_rw Richard Henderson
2013-07-17  9:50   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-07-17 11:09     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-17 13:23       ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 13:45         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-17 14:29           ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 14:41             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-17 15:50       ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-17 17:32         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-17 18:26           ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 18:57             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-17 19:28               ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 19:56                 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-07-17 20:05                   ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 18:28           ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-14 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 4/5] hw/alpha: Drop latch_tmp hack Richard Henderson
2013-07-14 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/5] hw/alpha: Use SRM epoch Richard Henderson

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