Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 1/2] powerpc: use well known kernel start address

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On 19.04.2016 19:26, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> As we know where QEMU will load the kernel, it seems an useless
> pain to try to compute it instead of using the well known value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  powerpc/boot_rom.S | 3 ++-
>  powerpc/cstart64.S | 6 +++---
>  powerpc/spapr.h    | 6 ++++++
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 powerpc/spapr.h
> 
> diff --git a/powerpc/boot_rom.S b/powerpc/boot_rom.S
> index ae2c08d..266d61f 100644
> --- a/powerpc/boot_rom.S
> +++ b/powerpc/boot_rom.S
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> -#define SPAPR_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x400000
> +#include "spapr.h"
> +
>  .text
>  .globl start
>  start:
> diff --git a/powerpc/cstart64.S b/powerpc/cstart64.S
> index ceb6397..c47b67d 100644
> --- a/powerpc/cstart64.S
> +++ b/powerpc/cstart64.S
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>  #include <asm/rtas.h>
>  #include <asm/ptrace.h>
>  
> +#include "spapr.h"
> +
>  .section .init
>  
>  /*
> @@ -25,9 +27,7 @@ start:
>  	 * so we just linked at zero. This means the first thing to do is
>  	 * to find our stack and toc, and then do a relocate.
>  	 */
> -	bl	0f
> -0:	mflr	r31
> -	subi	r31, r31, 0b - start    /* QEMU's kernel load address */
> +	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r31, SPAPR_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR)
>  	ld	r1, (p_stack - start)(r31)
>  	ld	r2, (p_toc - start)(r31)
>  	add	r1, r1, r31
> diff --git a/powerpc/spapr.h b/powerpc/spapr.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b41aece
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/powerpc/spapr.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +#ifndef _ASMPOWERPC_SPAPR_H_
> +#define _ASMPOWERPC_SPAPR_H_
> +
> +#define SPAPR_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x400000
> +
> +#endif /* _ASMPOWERPC_SPAPR_H_ */

Should be fine for now (and in case we ever want to run from SLOF
instead, for example, we still can rework this again), so:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>

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