Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/30] memory: add address_space_valid

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2013-05-23 14:05, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:57:16PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> The old-style IOMMU lets you check whether an access is valid in a
>> given DMAContext.  There is no equivalent for AddressSpace in the
>> memory API, implement it with a lookup of the dispatch tree.
> 
> I don't love the name - "address_space_valid" suggests to me it tests
> the validity of the whole address space, not a specific range.  But
> an obviously better name doesn't quickly occur to me.

Not sure ATM if someone else suggested this earlier already, but what
about something like address_space_access_valid?

Jan

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