What does the "internal" in Context::store_internal and Context::loadphys
mean?

Thanks in advance!
- Ching Tsun

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:21 PM, avadh patel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following are couple of functions used for reading/writing:
>
> - Context::loadvirt  - Load max 64bit data from given virtual address
> - Context::loadphys - Load max 64bit data from given physical address
> - Context::storemask_virt - Store max 64bit data to given virtual address
> and it uses mask to write selected bytes
> - Context::copy_from_user - Load instructions from given virtual address
> (only used for instructions)
>
> All VM's memory is handled by QEMU and simulator uses QEMU's API's to
> read/write to VM's RAM, IO and MMIO.
>
> - Avadh
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, DRAM Ninjas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It reads QEMU's memory. I believe it doesn't write to QEMU's memory since
>> QEMU will do that on its own.
>>
>> As far as reading the memory, I think it uses Context::copy_from_user()
>> in ptlsim/sim/ptl-qemu.cpp:662
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ching-Tsun Chou <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Does the PTLsim part of MARSS have its own memory (i.e., RAM), or it
>>> uses QEMU's memory?
>>>
>>> Where is the PTLsim code that actually reads and writes that memory?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> - Ching Tsun
>>>
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