Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] hook cpu_register_physical_mem

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 12/19/08, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
> > On 12/18/08, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Since now we have our own memory read/write function, we don't
> > >  depend on all of tcg data structures anymore. So, instead of filling
> > >  them up, bypass it altogether by using kvm_set_phys mem alone.
> > >
> > >  To do that, we now have to provide our own way to get page
> > >  information given the address. (kvm_get_physical_page_desc)
> > >
> > >  Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > >  +static void
> tcg_register_physical_memory_offset(target_phys_addr_t
> start_addr,
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I don't think TCG actually has much to do with the function.
> >
>
>  It really does though.  The way physical memory is registered and managed
> is TCG specific right now.  It has deep hooks for invalidating
> TranslationBlock's, and the table structure is designed to be conducive to
> the access patterns of TCG.

Yes, but also dyngen stuff used the same structures, so it's a bit
more generic than TCG-only.

>  If you think of a higher level CPU API, I think registering physical memory
> and reading/writing physical memory would end up being part of that API.

Thanks, I was looking for something like this. CPU emulator is more
than just TCG or dyngen and it is also ~KVM. So how about
cpu_emu_register_physical_memory_offset?

Also noaccel_register_physical_memory_offset would fit.