Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] pflash: flush rom device memory region

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/25/19 4:37 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:36:17AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 10:28, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:11:55PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> The device realize() is also executed before the guest is started, is
>>>> this call really necessary?
>>>
>>> My rationale was that machine init only happens before the guest is
>>> started while ->realize() is called by hotplug too.
>>
>> Yes, but before realize the flash memory can't actually be
>> visible to the guest, so there's no need to invalidate anything.
>>
>>> That said, can pflash devices be hotplugged?
>>
>> I guess you could have one inside a hotplugged device in theory;
>> they can't be directly hotpluggged. (I bet that in practice
>> there are leaks though if you did do that, and we don't have
>> any devices that do so today.)

Can we assume pflash aren't hotpluggable until someone find an use case
and is willing to work on it? I can't find any practical example.

>>> If you guys prefer not flushing from pflash ->realize() then I'll drop
>>> it.
>>
>> I think it makes more sense not to do a flush in the realize method.
> 
> Okay, I'll resend this patch.

Thanks!

Phil.

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