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From: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] dp8393x: Rewrite dp8393x_get() / dp8393x_put()
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 11:46:05 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25db776f-27b-efb7-ba10-c8da65fc92f@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210703141947.352295-7-f4bug@amsat.org>

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On Sat, 3 Jul 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:

> Instead of accessing N registers via a single address_space API
> call using a temporary buffer (stored in the device state) and
> updating each register, move the address_space call in the
> register put/get. The load/store and word size checks are moved
> to put/get too. This simplifies a bit, making the code easier
> to read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>

I tried this series with a Linux/m68k guest but network activity hanged 
the emulator. The cause of the problem is somewhere in this patch.

BTW, I've become suspicious of the word "rewrite". In this case I think it 
describes a commit that is attempting to do too much and needs to be split 
up to make it easier to review (and debug).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-04  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-03 14:19 [RFC PATCH 0/6] dp8393x: Housekeeping Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] dp8393x: fix CAM descriptor entry index Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] dp8393x: don't force 32-bit register access Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:39   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-03 16:29     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-04 15:34       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-04  2:06   ` Finn Thain
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] dp8393x: Restrict bus access to 16/32-bit operations Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:52   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-04 14:45   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] dp8393x: Store CAM registers as 16-bit Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:56   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-04 14:48   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-06 17:29     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-06 19:27       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] dp8393x: Replace address_space_rw(is_write=1) by address_space_write() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 14:57   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-04 14:49   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] dp8393x: Rewrite dp8393x_get() / dp8393x_put() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-03 15:00   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-03 15:04     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-07-04  1:46   ` Finn Thain [this message]
2021-07-04 15:07   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-05  1:36     ` Finn Thain
2021-07-05  6:34       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-07  1:30         ` Finn Thain
2021-07-07 10:12           ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-07-09  9:13             ` Finn Thain

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