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Re: [question] Shall we flush ITS tables into guest RAM when shutdown th


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [question] Shall we flush ITS tables into guest RAM when shutdown the VM?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:27:33 +0100

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 14:19, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > On 7/6/21 4:19 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > That's consistent with what you suggested in the past ans what is logged
> > in the commit message of
> >
> > cddafd8f353d2d251b1a5c6c948a577a85838582 ("hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its:
> > Implement state save/restore").
>
> Hi
>
> Ouch, it is really a mess.  Why do we need to save it to RAM instead of
> saving it to anywhere else?

The ITS tables are in guest RAM because that is how the real
hardware works, and so it is also how the emulated version
has to behave...

-- PMM



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