Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Memory API

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-05-19 10:06, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 10:40 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-05-18 15:12, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> >  void cpu_register_memory_region(MemoryRegion *mr,
>> target_phys_addr_t addr);
>>
>> OK, let's allow overlapping, but make it explicit:
>>
>> void cpu_register_memory_region_overlap(MemoryRegion *mr,
>>                                          target_phys_addr_t addr,
>>                                          int priority);
>>
>> We need that ordering, so we need an interface. Regions registered via
>> cpu_register_memory_region must not overlap with existing one or we will
>> throw an hwerror. And they shall get a low default priority.
>>
> 
> PCI BARs can overlap with anything.  So any region can overlap with any
> other region.

I know, but that result is unspecified anyway. The user (guest OS) can't
expect any reasonable result. We rather need priorities for useful
overlapping.

Jan

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