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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] dimm: Correct type of MemoryHotplugState->base
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] dimm: Correct type of MemoryHotplugState->base |
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Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:21:05 +0100 |
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On 22/01/2016 11:02, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:37:51 +1100
> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The 'base' field of MemoryHotplugState is ram_addr_t, which indicates that
>> it exists in the abstract address space of RAM regions.
>>
>> However, the actual usage of this field indicates that it is a concrete
>> physical address (it's passed as an offset to memory_region_add_subgregion
>> for example).
>>
>> So, correct its type to 'hwaddr'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h b/include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h
>> index d83bf30..218dfb0 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h
>> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ typedef struct PCDIMMDeviceClass {
>> * @mr: hotplug memory address space container
>> */
>> typedef struct MemoryHotplugState {
>> - ram_addr_t base;
>> + hwaddr base;
>> MemoryRegion mr;
>> } MemoryHotplugState;
>>
>
> I agree with this fix but that's not the only place where
> ram_addr_t needs to be replaced with hwaddr.
> For example type of MachineState.[max]ram_size fields needs
> to be changed as well. Because QEMU builds without CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND
> on 32-bit hosts are broken since ram_addr_t is 32-bits there
> while some targets assume and use it as 64-bit one.
But on a 32-bit system without CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND you cannot allocate
more than 4G anyway, so the choice of ram_addr_t is understandable in
that case.
On the other hand, on a 32-bit system without CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND you
definitely can place 128M of hot plugged memory between say 4096MB and
4224MB.
Paolo