On Fri, 2023-04-14 at 12:10 +0200, Nico Boehr wrote:
> Quoting Nina Schoetterl-Glausch (2023-04-13 18:33:50)
> [...]
> > With a small linker script change the snippet could know it's own length.
> > Then you could map just the required number of pages and don't need to keep those numbers in sync.
>
> Maybe it's because my knowledge about linker scripts is really limited or I
> don't get it, but I fail to see the advantage of the additional complexity.
>
> My assumption would be that the number of pages mapped for the guest memory will
> never really change. Keeping a define in sync seems more pragmatic than going
> through linker script magic.
I think just
+ . = ALIGN(4K);
+ esnippet = .;
/* End data */
at the bottom of the snippet linker script would suffice.
Then you could use esnippet as an extern symbol in the C code.
But yeah, might not be worth it unless it would help with other snippets too.
