Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: Fix 128 bit handling

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 08/30/2013 04:39 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 30/08/2013 08:15, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>> What if you just merge the two series together?
>> It will still be a function which can accept sections bigger than 2^64 and
>> theoretically call int128_get64() and assert. I would think that every time
>> when anyone calls int128_get64(), the value should be checked for <2^64. It
>> is like division by zero :)
> 
> I understood that int128_get64() would be called only for RAM sections,
> not for IOMMUs (and RAM sections cannot be 2^64-bytes large).  Is this
> wrong?


This is correct but for people who do not know when and in what state it is
called, it can be confusing. Ok, I'll merge this with my vfio patches.



-- 
Alexey