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 * Authors: Ali Saidi
 */

/**
 * @file
 * Virtual Port Object Decleration. These ports incorporate some translation
 * into their access methods. Thus you can use one to read and write data
 * to/from virtual addresses.
 */

#ifndef __MEM_VPORT_HH__
#define __MEM_VPORT_HH__

#include "mem/port.hh"
#include "config/full_system.hh"
#include "arch/vtophys.hh"


/** A class that translates a virtual address to a physical address and then
 * calls the above read/write functions. If an execution context is provided the
 * address can alway be translated, If not it can only be translated if it is a
 * simple address masking operation (such as alpha super page accesses).
 */

class VirtualPort  : public FunctionalPort
{
  private:
    ExecContext *xc;

  public:
    VirtualPort(const std::string &_name, ExecContext *_xc = NULL)
        : FunctionalPort(_name), xc(_xc)
    {}

    /** Return true if we have an exec context. This is used to prevent someone
     * from accidently deleting the cpus statically allocated vport.
     * @return true if an execution context isn't valid
     */
    bool nullExecContext() { return xc != NULL; }

    /** Version of readblob that translates virt->phys and deals
      * with page boundries. */
    virtual void readBlob(Addr addr, uint8_t *p, int size);

    /** Version of writeBlob that translates virt->phys and deals
      * with page boundries. */
    virtual void writeBlob(Addr addr, uint8_t *p, int size);
};

#endif //__MEM_VPORT_HH__