Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 5/7] memory: Allow replay of IOMMU mapping notifications

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:04:14PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 25/09/2015 13:33, David Gibson wrote:
> > 1) Is there a case where using the no-replay functions makes
> > sense?
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> > I'm not sure.  I think vfio is the only user so far, so I guess
> > that's technically a no.  I was reluctant to change the interface
> > and semantics just off the bat, though.
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> Considering memory_region_listener does the reply, I think it's
> okay.

Uh.. just to be clear, are you saying I should change this so there's
only the replaying interface?

> For solving the problem that Laurent mentioned, using int128 seems
> like the easiest solution...

Maybe.  It means I have to do all the address calculation in the loop
with an int128, then truncate it to do the actual call.  That seems
harder to me than the overflow check I added, but I suppose it's
conceptually similar in some ways.

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