Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [XEN][RFC PATCH V2 01/17] hvm: Modify interface to support multiple ioreq server

[Keir Fraser]

On 23/08/2012 14:18, "Ian Campbell" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> diff --git a/xen/include/public/hvm/ioreq.h b/xen/include/public/hvm/ioreq.h
>> index 4022a1d..87aacd3 100644
>> --- a/xen/include/public/hvm/ioreq.h
>> +++ b/xen/include/public/hvm/ioreq.h
>> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>>  
>>  #define IOREQ_TYPE_PIO          0 /* pio */
>>  #define IOREQ_TYPE_COPY         1 /* mmio ops */
>> +#define IOREQ_TYPE_PCI_CONFIG   2 /* pci config space ops */
>>  #define IOREQ_TYPE_TIMEOFFSET   7
>>  #define IOREQ_TYPE_INVALIDATE   8 /* mapcache */
> 
> I wonder why we skip 2-6 now -- perhaps they used to be something else
> and we are avoiding them to avoid strange errors? In which case adding
> the new on as 9 might be a good idea.

They were almost certainly used for representing R-M-W ALU operations back
in the days of the old IO emulator, very long ago. Still, there's no harm in
leaving them unused.

 -- Keir