Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mer 21 mag 2025, 10:37 Paolo Bonzini ha scritto: > > So... not sure what to do there. It seems like vm-memory is very close > to > >> > being usable by QEMU, but maybe not completely. :( >> >> Is it possible or necessary for vm-memory to support overlap? Because I >> feel that if it is possib

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mer 21 mag 2025, 11:35 Manos Pitsidianakis < manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org> ha scritto: > vm-memory is a very rigid API unfortunately. It's excellent for > rust-vmm purposes. I presume it's possible to figure out a clever > solution to satisfy both rust-vmm and QEMU use needs but I'm not sure

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-21 Thread Manos Pitsidianakis
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > Il mer 21 mag 2025, 10:21 Zhao Liu ha scritto: >> >> I also realize that once FlatRange/FlatView is associated with >> GuestMemoryRegion/ >> GuestMemory, it changes the usual practice in QEMU, where most memory >> operations >> are b

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mer 21 mag 2025, 10:21 Zhao Liu ha scritto: > I also realize that once FlatRange/FlatView is associated with > GuestMemoryRegion/ > GuestMemory, it changes the usual practice in QEMU, where most memory > operations > are built around MemoryRegion/AddressSpace. > That shouldn't be a problem. I

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-21 Thread Zhao Liu
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:48:11 +0200 > From: Paolo Bonzini > Subject: Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025 > > On 5/20/25 18:23, Zhao Liu wrote: > > > HPET does some very simple memory accesses; a good safe

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 5/20/25 18:23, Zhao Liu wrote: HPET does some very simple memory accesses; a good safe solution for this may be the ``vm-memory`` crate. While I have not looked into using it, ``vm-memory`` and ``vm-virtio`` were written with QEMU's use cases in mind. I'm working on this and trying to wrap s

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-20 Thread Zhao Liu
(Resend as the previous email may have failed.) > Remaining unsafe code > ' > > qdev bindings cover basic classes and interfaces, including > GPIO pins, timers, clocks and MemoryRegionOps. VMState > still needs unsafe callbacks for pre_save/post_load, with > the final version

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mar 6 mag 2025, 04:41 Manos Pitsidianakis ha scritto: > > It's not about hot paths, it's more that 1) you cannot use From/Into in > > a "static"'s initializer 2) bilge relies a lot on non-const methods in > > its internal implementation, which makes it quite messy to use it in > > some places.

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-06 Thread Manos Pitsidianakis
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 5/5/25 14:26, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote: > >> Something I do notice is that there's some inconsistency in > >> how we've structured things between the two devices, e.g.: > >> > >> * the pl011 main source file is device.rs, but

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-05 Thread Peter Maydell
On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 5/5/25 14:26, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote: > >> Something I do notice is that there's some inconsistency in > >> how we've structured things between the two devices, e.g.: > >> > >> * the pl011 main source file is device.rs, but th

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 5/5/25 14:26, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote: Something I do notice is that there's some inconsistency in how we've structured things between the two devices, e.g.: * the pl011 main source file is device.rs, but the hpet one is hpet.rs * some places we use the actual names o

Re: Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-05 Thread Manos Pitsidianakis
On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > It's been roughly three months since my previous update on the Rust in > QEMU project. Support for Rust remains experimental, with most of the > past three months spent cleaning up the bindings and making more > functionality available from

Rust in QEMU update, April 2025

2025-05-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
It's been roughly three months since my previous update on the Rust in QEMU project. Support for Rust remains experimental, with most of the past three months spent cleaning up the bindings and making more functionality available from safe Rust. As before, this mostly covers what I have looked a