Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Unlike real hardware, vmport needs access to the CPU [...]

[Jan Kiszka]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:46:04PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?q?Reimar=20D=C3=B6ffinger?= wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Reimar Döffinger <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  hw/vmport.c |    2 ++
>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/vmport.c b/hw/vmport.c
>>> index 884af3f..9a942ee 100644
>>> --- a/hw/vmport.c
>>> +++ b/hw/vmport.c
>>> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>>>  #include "isa.h"
>>>  #include "pc.h"
>>>  #include "sysemu.h"
>>> +#include "kvm.h"
>>>  
>>>  //#define VMPORT_DEBUG
>>>  
>>> @@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ static uint32_t vmport_ioport_read(void *opaque, uint32_t 
>>> addr)
>>>      unsigned char command;
>>>      uint32_t eax;
>>>  
>>> +    cpu_synchronize_state(env);
>>>      eax = env->regs[R_EAX];
>>>      if (eax != VMPORT_MAGIC)
>>>          return eax;
>> Ack (qemu-kvm carries a similar patch).
> 
> Now that I look at it... yes.
> Except that it does not yet have cpu_synchronize_state and thus is broken for
> vmport_ioport_write, the return value written to EAX is lost.

Normally qemu-kvm catches such things when merging from upstream.

> 
>> But please grant your patches some proper titles.
> 
> Sorry, I am still figuring out how to write commit messages that git 
> format-patch
> handles in a good way (as well as the most sane way to use it in
> general).

This rule is simple, just write your commit messages in the form

Title
<blank line>
Description...


Moreover, your mail client is configured to inject "Mail-Followup-To"
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client to send myself a mail when replying to yours.

Jan

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