Re: [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 platform.

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On 2/27/09, Liu Yu-B13201 <Yu.Liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Blue Swirl [mailto:blauwirbel@xxxxxxxxx]
>  > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:47 AM
>  > To: Liu Yu-B13201
>  > Cc: qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx; aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx;
>  > hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx; kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 platform.
>  >
>  > On 2/26/09, Liu Yu <yu.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > MPIC and OpenPIC have very similar design.
>  > >  So a lot of code can be reused.
>  > >
>  > >  Modification mainly include:
>  > >  1. keep struct openpic_t to the maximum size of both MPIC
>  > and OpenPIC.
>  > >  2. endianess swap.
>  > >    MPIC has the same endianess as target, so no need to
>  > swap for MPIC.
>  > >  3. using different init functions and function pointers
>  > for reset and irq raise.
>  > >
>  > >  Haven't test OpenPIC.
>  > >
>  > >  Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > >  +    struct {
>  > >  +        CPUReadMemoryFunc **read;
>  > >  +        CPUWriteMemoryFunc **write;
>  > >  +        target_phys_addr_t start_addr;
>  > >  +        ram_addr_t size;
>  > >  +    } list[] = {
>  > >  +        {mpic_glb_read, mpic_glb_write,
>  > MPIC_GLB_REG_START, MPIC_GLB_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_tmr_read, mpic_tmr_write,
>  > MPIC_TMR_REG_START, MPIC_TMR_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_ext_read, mpic_ext_write,
>  > MPIC_EXT_REG_START, MPIC_EXT_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_int_read, mpic_int_write,
>  > MPIC_INT_REG_START, MPIC_INT_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_msg_read, mpic_msg_write,
>  > MPIC_MSG_REG_START, MPIC_MSG_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_msi_read, mpic_msi_write,
>  > MPIC_MSI_REG_START, MPIC_MSI_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +        {mpic_cpu_read, mpic_cpu_write,
>  > MPIC_CPU_REG_START, MPIC_CPU_REG_SIZE},
>  > >  +    };
>  >
>  > "static const" ?
>  >
>
>
> Why static? It's allocated on stack and will be free when function return.

True, but it will be constructed for every call. But as this function
will be called only once, it does not matter too much.
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