Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 10/16] memory: Introduce memory_region_init_reservation

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/03/2011 01:17 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>
> Introduce a memory region type that can reserve I/O space. Such regions
> are useful for modeling I/O that is only handled outside of QEMU, i.e.
> in the context of an accelerator like KVM. Any access to such a region
> from QEMU is a bug and will be reported as such.

This is guest triggerable (DMA into the region), so abort() is too drastic.

> +void memory_region_init_reservation(MemoryRegion *mr,
> +                                    const char *name,
> +                                    uint64_t size)
> +{
> +    memory_region_init(mr, name, size);
> +    mr->ops = &reservation_ops;
> +    mr->opaque = mr;
> +    mr->terminates = true;
> +    mr->backend_registered = false;
> +}

Just calling memory_region_init_io() is simpler, no?


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