Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] lguest guest feedback tidyups | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 17:31:06 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:56 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:21:30AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > 1) send-dma and bind-dma hypercall wrappers for drivers to use, > > 2) formalization of the convention that devices can use the irq > > corresponding to their index on the lguest_bus. > > 3) ___force to shut up sparse: guests *can* use ioremap as virtual mem. > > No, they can't. Even if in your case the underlying address spaces > happen to be the same anything returned by ioremap must use the proper > accessors. That's the whole point of having this separation, otherwise > you wouldn't need to use ioremap at all.
Hi Christoph!
Well, without ioremap, the memory wouldn't normally be mapped. Is there something better to use?
> So instead of sprinkling cast > around add lguest_read*/lguest_write* accessors that do the __force cast > once and make sure the ioremap return value is always accessed using those.
And that's nothing to do with iremap. They're required because guest "physical" == host virtual, and casting a long to a "__user void *" seems to require a __force.
I enjoy a good Hellwigging as much as anyone, but your aim is off.
Cheers, Rusty.
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