Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs/memory.txt: Clarify and expand priority/overlap documentation

[Eric Blake]

On 10/15/2013 08:42 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The documentation of how overlapping memory regions behave and how
> the priority system works was rather brief, and confusion about
> priorities seems to be quite common for developers trying to understand
> how the memory region system works, so expand and clarify it.
> This includes a worked example with overlaps, documentation of the
> behaviour when an overlapped container has "holes", and mention
> that it's valid for a region to have both MMIO callbacks and
> subregions (and how this interacts with priorities when it does).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> Changes v1->v2: various minor improvements as per review comments
>  from MST and subsequent discussion.
> 

>  
> +It is valid to add subregions to a region which is not a pure container
> +(that is, to an MMIO, RAM or ROM region). This means that the region
> +will act like a container, except that any addresses within the container's
> +region which are not claimed by any subregion are handled by the
> +container itself (ie by its MMIO callbacks or RAM backing). However

s/ie/ie./

> +it is generally possible to achieve the same effect with a pure container

s/container/container,/

> +one of whose subregions is a low priority "background" region covering
> +the whole address range; this is often clearer and is preferred.
> +Subregions cannot be added to an alias region.
>  


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