Rename GuestMemory->GuestMemoryBackend, IoMemory->GuestMemory #362
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I'm not sure if this should be 0.18.0 or 0.19.0. @XanClic, I think the current |
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Rename GuestMemory to GuestMemoryBackend, IoMemory to GuestMemory. This allows users of vm-memory to be aware of access permissions for memory, with no change to callers that just use the `Bytes` interface. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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Also rename IoMemorySliceIterator to GuestMemorySliceIterator, and GuestMemorySliceIterator to GusetMemoryBackendSliceIterator. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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After the rename, the primary interface to vm-memory is almost completely absent in DESIGN.md. Give it more importance and remove some details of GuestMemoryBackend that are now obsolete. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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Summary of the PR
As discussed in #327, make the main interface to vm-memory the one that includes permissions and lets fewer aspects of the implementation through.
Based on #361.
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