As expected, this is taking longer than expected, so I'm releasing something less complete than I'd have liked. Not even all of the PC machine is converted, but the difficult parts are (cirrus). It appears to work well. The major change compared to v1 is the introduction of memory_region_init_alias(), which defines a memory region in terms of another. With the current API, the ability to alias is provided by address arithmetic on ram_addr_t: ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(...); cpu_register_physical_memory(..., ram_addr, size, ...); /* alias: */ cpu_register_physical_memory(..., ram_addr + offset, another_size, ...); With the new API, you have to create an alias: memory_region_init_ram(&mem, ...); memory_region_register_subregion(..., &mem); /* alias: */ memory_region_init_alias(&alias, ..., &mem, offset, another_size); memory_region_register_subregion(..., &alias); The patchset is somewhat churny. One of the reasons is that we move from a handle/pointer scheme in ram_addr_t to an object constructor/destructor scheme. Another is that region size becomes a property of a region instead of being maintained externally. Also, container memory regions must be passed around, though we don't do that as well as we should. Todo: - eliminate calls to get_system_memory() (where we ignore the bus hierarchy) - add PCI APIs for the VGA window - support the PIO address space using the memory API (allowing simplified PCI BAR registration) - convert 440FX - convert everything else Also available in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git memory-region with a complementary pair of noisy debug patches. Avi Kivity (20): Hierarchical memory region API memory: implement dirty tracking memory: merge adjacent segments of a single memory region Internal interfaces for memory API exec.c: initialize memory map pc: grab system_memory pc: convert pc_memory_init() to memory API pc: move global memory map out of pc_init1() and into its callers pci: pass address space to pci bus when created pci: add MemoryRegion based BAR management API sysbus: add MemoryRegion based memory management API usb-ohci: convert to MemoryRegion pci: add API to get a BAR's mapped address vmsvga: don't remember pci BAR address in callback any more vga: convert vga and its derivatives to the memory API cirrus: simplify mmio BAR access functions cirrus: simplify bitblt BAR access functions cirrus: simplify vga window mmio access functions vga: simplify vga window mmio access functions cirrus: simplify linear framebuffer access functions Makefile.target | 1 + exec-memory.h | 17 ++ exec.c | 19 ++ hw/apb_pci.c | 2 + hw/bonito.c | 4 +- hw/cirrus_vga.c | 476 ++++++++++++------------------------ hw/grackle_pci.c | 5 +- hw/gt64xxx.c | 4 +- hw/pc.c | 62 +++-- hw/pc.h | 9 +- hw/pc_piix.c | 20 +- hw/pci.c | 68 ++++- hw/pci.h | 16 +- hw/pci_host.h | 1 + hw/pci_internals.h | 1 + hw/piix_pci.c | 13 +- hw/ppc4xx_pci.c | 5 +- hw/ppc_mac.h | 9 +- hw/ppc_newworld.c | 5 +- hw/ppc_oldworld.c | 3 +- hw/ppc_prep.c | 3 +- hw/ppce500_pci.c | 6 +- hw/prep_pci.c | 5 +- hw/prep_pci.h | 3 +- hw/sh_pci.c | 4 +- hw/sysbus.c | 27 ++- hw/sysbus.h | 3 + hw/unin_pci.c | 10 +- hw/usb-ohci.c | 42 ++-- hw/versatile_pci.c | 2 + hw/vga-isa-mm.c | 66 ++++-- hw/vga-isa.c | 13 +- hw/vga-pci.c | 28 +-- hw/vga.c | 178 +++++--------- hw/vga_int.h | 24 +- hw/vmware_vga.c | 94 +++++--- memory.c | 704 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ memory.h | 202 +++++++++++++++ 38 files changed, 1525 insertions(+), 629 deletions(-) create mode 100644 exec-memory.h create mode 100644 memory.c create mode 100644 memory.h -- 1.7.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html