RE: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Flush icache after dma operations for ia64

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Ok,
>> 
>> Trying once more. After spending a couple of hours trying to follow
>> the QEMU dma codeflow, I have convinced myself Avi is right and those
>> two functions don't need to do the flushing as they all end up
>> calling dma_bdrv_cb() which calls dma_brdv_unmap(). I have added a
>> couple comments to the code, which will hopefully save the next
>> person the 'pleasure' of trying to figure out this too.
>> 
> 
> It looks right to me.  Xiantao?

Fine to me.  But seems the change in qemu_iovec_from_buffer is lost in this patch or that change is also not unnecessary ?

Xiantao


>>                  access_len -= l;
>> -            }
>> +	    }
>> +	    dma_flush_range((unsigned long)buffer,
>> +			    (unsigned long)buffer + flush_len);
>>          }
>> 
> 
> Detab your code, please.