Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 05/36] ppc/xive: introduce the XIVE Event Notification Descriptors

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:49:09PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 15:41 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > 
> > > +void xive_end_reset(XiveEND *end)
> > > +{
> > > +    memset(end, 0, sizeof(*end));
> > > +
> > > +    /* switch off the escalation and notification ESBs */
> > > +    end->w1 = END_W1_ESe_Q | END_W1_ESn_Q;
> > 
> > It's not obvious to me what circumstances this would be called under.
> > Since the ENDs are in system memory, a memset() seems like an odd
> > thing for (virtual) hardware to be doing to it.
> > 
> > > +}
> 
> Not on PAPR ...

Right, so the memset() can go in PAPR specific code.

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