On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:34:01AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 19:18 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:26:30PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > --- a/hw/device-assignment.c
> > > +++ b/hw/device-assignment.c
> ...
> > > @@ -1644,58 +1621,64 @@ void add_assigned_devices(PCIBus *bus, const char **devices, int n_devices)
> > > */
> > > static void assigned_dev_load_option_rom(AssignedDevice *dev)
> > > {
> > > - int size, len, ret;
> > > - void *buf;
> > > + char name[32], rom_file[64];
> > > FILE *fp;
> > > - uint8_t i = 1;
> > > - char rom_file[64];
> > > + uint8_t val;
> > > + struct stat st;
> > > + void *ptr;
> > > +
> > > + /* If loading ROM from file, pci handles it */
> > > + if (dev->dev.romfile || !dev->dev.rom_bar)
> > > + return;
> > >
> > > snprintf(rom_file, sizeof(rom_file),
> > > "/sys/bus/pci/devices/%04x:%02x:%02x.%01x/rom",
> > > dev->host.seg, dev->host.bus, dev->host.dev, dev->host.func);
> > >
> > > - if (access(rom_file, F_OK))
> > > + if (stat(rom_file, &st)) {
> > > return;
> > > + }
> > >
> >
> > Just a note that stat on the ROM sysfs file returns window size,
> > not the ROM size. So this allocates more ram than really necessary for
> > ROM. Real size is returned by fread.
> >
> > Do we care?
>
> That was my intention with using stat. I thought that by default the
> ROM BAR should match physical hardware, so even if the contents could be
> rounded down to a smaller size, we maintain the size of the physical
> device. To use the minimum size, the contents could be extracted using
> pci-sysfs and passed with the romfile option, or the ROM could be
> disabled altogether with the rombar=0 option. Sound reasonable?
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
For BAR size yes, but we do not need the buffer full of 0xff as it is
never accessed: let's have buffer size match real ROM, avoid wasting
memory: this can come up to megabytes easily.
Makes sense?
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