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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2] kvm: remove in_range and switch to rwsem for iobus
On 06/29/2009 05:06 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:34:25PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
>> This changes bus accesses to use high-level kvm_io_bus_read/kvm_io_bus_write
>> functions, which utilize read/write semaphore intead of mutex. in_range now
>> becomes unused so it is removed from device ops in favor of read/write
>> callbacks performing range checks internally.
>>
>> This allows aliasing (mostly for in-kernel virtio), as well as better error
>> handling by making it possible to pass errors up to userspace. And it's enough
>> to look at the diffstat to see that it's a better API anyway.
>>
>
> Can you please expand a little on this? Still don't get why making
> ->in_range part of ->read / ->write is a good thing. Aliasing?
>

Yes, if you have several devices responding to the same port (but
different values), in_range() by itself doesn't tell you much. virtio
msi support will tie a different iosignalfd to every queue, and queues
are notified by writing different values to one pio port.

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