Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1] Add declarations for hierarchical memory region API

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On 05/20/2011 08:59 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>  The memory API separates the attributes of a memory region (its size, how
>  reads or writes are handled, dirty logging, and coalescing) from where it
>  is mapped and whether it is enabled.  This allows a device to configure
>  a memory region once, then hand it off to its parent bus to map it according
>  to the bus configuration.
>
>  Hierarchical registration also allows a device to compose a region out of
>  a number of sub-regions with different properties; for example some may be
>  RAM while others may be MMIO.
>
>  +/* Destroy a memory region.  The memory becomes inaccessible. */
>  +void memory_region_destroy(MemoryRegion *mr);

Doesn't the lower priority region become accessible instead in some cases?

If we require that _add_subregion() and _del_subregion() be paired, then no.

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