Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: Specify byte order for KVM_EXIT_MMIO

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Il 24/01/2014 16:23, Victor Kamensky ha scritto:
> Also if you use ints on real bus as description, you may want to clarify
> restrictions on mmio.len. Basically on 32 bit platform (i.e like V7
> ARM) one cannot have mmio.len=8, because one cannot have 64bit
> value on 32bit data bus. Without such clarification introduction of
> text like "the value as it would go on the bus in real hardware" is
> confusing for len=8 for emulated CPUs where real busses are
> 32bit.

This is not necessarily true.  On a 32-bit CPU you can have a 64-bit 
memory bus.  Even x86 32-bit CPUs can do 64-bit MMIO via MMX or SSE or 
double-word compare-and-swap (CMPXCHG8B).

Paolo
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