On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 17:56 -0800, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:24:08AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Finally, I think it's a bit confusing in that "as if the guest had > > accessed memory" is assigning implicit semantics to memory > > in the emulated system, when memory is actually kind of outside > > KVM's purview because it's not part of the CPU. > > > > The "as if the guest had accessed memory", would imply that user space > needs to look at the settings of the CPU (in the case of ARM the E-bit) > to understand which value the CPU intended for the memory transaction. No, it doesn't, just as userspace doesn't need to do that to interpret DMA descriptors. -Scott -- 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
