[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] exec.c: refactor cpu_physical_memory_map

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/18/2011 07:52 PM, stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Stefano Stabellini<stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Introduce qemu_ram_ptr_length that takes an address and a size as
> parameters rather than just an address.
>
> Refactor cpu_physical_memory_map so that we call qemu_ram_ptr_length only
> once rather than calling qemu_get_ram_ptr one time per page.
> This is not only more efficient but also tries to simplify the logic of
> the function.
> Currently we are relying on the fact that all the pages are mapped
> contiguously in qemu's address space: we have a check to make sure that
> the virtual address returned by qemu_get_ram_ptr from the second call on
> is consecutive. Now we are making this more explicit replacing all the
> calls to qemu_get_ram_ptr with a single call to qemu_ram_ptr_length
> passing a size argument.
Would the interface at 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/101475 work for you 
alternatively?
Paolo

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