On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:32:38 +0800
Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/21/2015 06:49 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:26:35AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/20/2015 11:51 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:54:14AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>>> +exit:
> >>>> + /* Write our output result to dsm memory. */
> >>>> + ((dsm_out *)dsm_ram_addr)->len = out->len;
> >>>
> >>> Missing byteswap?
> >>>
> >>> I thought you were going to remove this field because it wasn't needed
> >>> by the guest.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The @len is the size of _DSM result buffer, for example, for the function of
> >> DSM_FUN_IMPLEMENTED the result buffer is 8 bytes, and for
> >> DSM_DEV_FUN_NAMESPACE_LABEL_SIZE the buffer size is 4 bytes. It tells ASL code
> >> how much size of memory we need to return to the _DSM caller.
> >>
> >> In _DSM code, it's handled like this:
> >>
> >> "RLEN" is @len, “OBUF” is the left memory in DSM page.
> >>
> >> /* get @len*/
> >> aml_append(method, aml_store(aml_name("RLEN"), aml_local(6)));
> >> /* @len << 3 to get bits. */
> >> aml_append(method, aml_store(aml_shiftleft(aml_local(6),
> >> aml_int(3)), aml_local(6)));
> >>
> >> /* get @len << 3 bits from OBUF, and return it to the caller. */
> >> aml_append(method, aml_create_field(aml_name("ODAT"), aml_int(0),
> >> aml_local(6) , "OBUF"));
> >>
> >> Since @len is our internally used, it's not return to guest, so i did not do
> >> byteswap here.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the ACPI details, but I think this emits bytecode
> > that will be run by the guest's ACPI interpreter?
> >
> > You still need to define the endianness of fields since QEMU and the
> > guest could have different endianness.
> >
> > In other words, will the following work if a big-endian ppc host is
> > running a little-endian x86 guest?
> >
> > ((dsm_out *)dsm_ram_addr)->len = out->len;
> >
>
> Er... If we do byteswap in QEMU then it is also needed in ASL code, however,
> ASL lacks this kind of instruction. I guess ACPI interpreter is smart enough
> to change value to Littel-Endian for all 2 bytes / 4 bytes / 8 bytes accesses
>
> I will do the change in next version, thanks for you pointing it out, Stefan!
According to ACPI spec integers encoded as little endian,
so QEMU needs to convert fields accessible by OSPM to it
(i.e. do cpu_to_le())
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