On 02.11.21 17:43, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Playing with memory_region_is_mapped(), I realized that memory regions
> mapped via an alias behave a little bit "differently", as they don't have
> their ->container set.
> * memory_region_is_mapped() will never succeed for memory regions mapped
>   via an alias
> * memory_region_to_address_space(), memory_region_find(),
>   memory_region_find_rcu(), memory_region_present() won't work, which seems
>   okay, because we don't expect such memory regions getting passed to these
>   functions.
> * memory_region_to_absolute_addr() will result in a wrong address. As
>   the result is only used for tracing, that is tolerable.
> 
> Let's cleanup/fix the code and documentation of memory_region_is_mapped()
> and change one user that really should be checking something else.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - "memory: Make memory_region_is_mapped() succeed when mapped via an
>    alias"
> -- Add an assertion
> - Add RBs
> 
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <phi...@redhat.com>
> 
> David Hildenbrand (3):
>   machine: Use host_memory_backend_is_mapped() in
>     machine_consume_memdev()
>   memory: Make memory_region_is_mapped() succeed when mapped via an
>     alias
>   memory: Update description of memory_region_is_mapped()
> 
>  hw/core/machine.c     |  2 +-
>  include/exec/memory.h |  4 +++-
>  softmmu/memory.c      | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Gentle ping

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


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