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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 4/6] target/ppc: Build rtas error log


From: David Gibson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 4/6] target/ppc: Build rtas error log
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:32:35 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01)

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 01:56:50PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 25 March 2019 12:00 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:04:07PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> >> This patch builds the rtas error log, copies it to the
> >> rtas_addr and then invokes the guest registered machine
> >> check handler.
> > 
> > This commit message needs more context.  When is this occurring, why
> > do we need this?
> > 
> > [I can answer those questions now, but whether I - or anyone else -
> >  will be able to looking back at this commit from years in the future
> >  is a different question]
> 
> will add more info.

Thanks.

[snip]
> >> +static uint64_t spapr_get_rtas_addr(void)
> >> +{
> >> +    SpaprMachineState *spapr = SPAPR_MACHINE(qdev_get_machine());
> >> +    int rtas_node;
> >> +    const struct fdt_property *rtas_addr_prop;
> >> +    void *fdt = spapr->fdt_blob;
> >> +    uint32_t rtas_addr;
> >> +
> >> +    /* fetch rtas addr from fdt */
> >> +    rtas_node = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/rtas");
> >> +    g_assert(rtas_node >= 0);
> >> +
> >> +    rtas_addr_prop = fdt_get_property(fdt, rtas_node, "linux,rtas-base", 
> >> NULL);
> >> +    g_assert(rtas_addr_prop);
> >> +
> >> +    rtas_addr = fdt32_to_cpu(*(uint32_t *)rtas_addr_prop->data);
> >> +    return (uint64_t)rtas_addr;
> > 
> > It seems a bit roundabout to pull the rtas address out of the device
> > tree, since it was us that put it in there in the first place.
> 
> Slof can change the rtas address. So we need to get the updated rtas
> address.

Ah, ok.

-- 
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david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au  | minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
                                | _way_ _around_!
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