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In emulating guests with a simple, flat memory model, we frequently need to translate a guest physical address (GPA) into a host virtual address (HVA). This is a hot path operation that must be efficient as possible. This commit introduces gpa_to_hva(), a static inline helper function designed for this purpose. The implementation relies on the fundamental pre-condition that the guest's physical RAM is backed by a single, contiguous region of host virtual memory (typically acquired via mmap). It treats the GPA not as a pointer but as a direct byte offset from the base of this host mapping. This approach is optimal for performance for two key reasons: 1. The translation is a single pointer-offset calculation, which typically compiles to a single LEA intruction on x86-64. 2. It preserves memory access locality. When a guest performs sequential accesses, the host's accesses are also sequential, allowing the host CPU's hardware prefetcher to function effectively. This helper provides the fast path for simple RAM accesses. More complex address spaces involving discontiguous memory or MMIO regions will require a slower, lookup-based translation mechanism. This function is not intended for those cases. Signed-off-by: Ronald Caesar <github43132@proton.me> |
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