Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/13] Implement cpu_physical_memory_zero()

[David Gibson]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:42:00PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >From: David Gibson<address@hidden>
[snip]
> >@@ -3581,6 +3581,59 @@ void cpu_physical_memory_rw(target_phys_addr_t addr, 
> >uint8_t *buf,
> >      }
> >  }
> >
> >+void cpu_physical_memory_zero(target_phys_addr_t addr, int len)
> >+{
> 
> I'd think a memset() like interface would be better but...

I can work with that.

> We should definitely implement this function in terms of
> cpu_physical_memory_write instead of open coding the logic again.

Hrm.  Having solved merge conflicts several times by recopying the
cpu_physical_memory_rw() logic, I can certainly see the attraction in
that.  However, the point of this function is *not* to have to
allocate a temporary buffer, and I don't really see how to combine the
logic without that.

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