Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Guest unresponsive after Virtqueue size exceeded error

[Peter Maydell]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 16:05, Natanael Copa <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was thinking of something in the lines of:
>
> typedef volatile uint16_t __attribute__((__may_alias__)) volatile_uint16_t;
> static inline int lduw_he_p(const void *ptr)
> {
>      volatile_uint16_t r = *(volatile_uint16_t*)ptr;
>      return r;
> }

This won't correctly handle accesses with unaligned pointers,
I'm afraid. We rely on these functions correctly working
with pointers that are potentially unaligned.

thanks
-- PMM