Paravirtualized devices (and also some real devices) can assume they are going to access RAM. For this reason, provide a fast-path function with the following properties:
1) it will never allocate a bounce buffer 2) it can be used for read-modify-write operations 3) unlike qemu_get_ram_ptr, it is safe because it recognizes "short" blocks Patches 3 and 4 use this function for virtio devices and the milkymist GPU. The latter is only compile-tested. Another function checks if it is possible to split a contiguous physical address range into multiple subranges, all of which use the fast path. I will introduce later a use for this function. Paolo Bonzini (4): exec: extract cpu_physical_memory_map_internal exec: introduce cpu_physical_memory_map_fast and cpu_physical_memory_map_check virtio: use cpu_physical_memory_map_fast milkymist: use cpu_physical_memory_map_fast cpu-common.h | 4 ++ exec.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- hw/milkymist-tmu2.c | 39 ++++++++++-------- hw/vhost.c | 10 ++-- hw/virtio.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) -- 1.7.4.4