On 06/12/16 14:55, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 06.12.16 at 15:47, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote: >> On 06/12/16 11:44, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> This once again points out that handle_mmio() is rather badly named, as >>> it's about more than just MMIO. Since we have hvm_emulate_one() >>> already, I am, however, lacking an idea for a good alternative name. >> As am I. A number of its current uses are not for MMIO at all, and >> would ideally go with some further restriction of emulated instruction. > Actually meanwhile I think I have a plan here, which could go > together with renaming the function: To efficiently make use of > the new .validate() hook the emulator obtains with the PV priv-op > patch, I'd like to have callers of handle_mmio() pass in their hook > function (and I think we should not make this optional).
I haven't got that far in the PV series yet, but this plan sounds good to me. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
