[PATCH 14/15] KVM: ARM: Handle I/O aborts

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Oct 5 05:00:25 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 01:53:26PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> A good starting point would be load/store emulation as this seems to be a
> common theme, and we would need a credible deployment for any new
> framework so that we know it's fit for purpose.

Probably not actually, that code is written to be fast, because things
like IP stack throughput depend on it - particularly when your network
card can only DMA packets to 32-bit aligned addresses (resulting in
virtually all network data being misaligned.)



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