Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 4/8] boards.h: Define new flag ignore_memory_transaction_failures

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 4 August 2017 at 20:23, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 08/04/2017 11:09 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Since create_unimplemented_device() register overlapped with low priority, why
>> not register it as default device directly, over the whole address space?
>
> That's a good suggestion.  It makes more sense to me than adding a flag on the
> MachineClass.

Yeah, I did think about implementing it that way, but...

That wouldn't handle the case of a device model directly
returning a MEMTX_ERROR, or a transaction dispatched to
a memory region whose MemoryRegionOps valid settings
prohibit it (eg byte accesses to a word-access-only device),
or accesses to a MemoryRegion that was created by passing
a NULL MemoryRegionOps pointer to memory_region_init_io
(I dunno why you'd do that but some code does).

In short, there are lots of ways the memory subsystem might
end up returning a transaction error -- this mechanism
ensures that none of them start generating exceptions
when they previously did not, and is (I hope) easy to
review in the sense of being sure that it does what it
intends to do without the need to audit a lot of corner
cases.

thanks
-- PMM