The documentation of how overlapping memory regions behave and how
the priority system works was rather brief, and confusion about
priorities seems to be quite common for developers trying to understand
how the memory region system works, so expand and clarify it.
This includes a worked example with overlaps, documentation of the
behaviour when an overlapped container has "holes", and mention
that it's valid for a region to have both MMIO callbacks and
subregions (and how this interacts with priorities when it does).
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1381848154-31602-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
When memory regions overlap, priority can be used to specify
which of them takes priority. By making the priority values signed
rather than unsigned, we make it more convenient to implement
a situation where one "background" region should appear only
where no other region exists: rather than having to explicitly
specify a high priority for all the other regions, we can let them take
the default (zero) priority and specify a negative priority for the
background region.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Fix typos and minor documentation errors in both memory.h and
docs/memory.txt.
Also add missing documentation formatting tags to transaction
functions.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Ademar de Souza Reis Jr <areis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
