[OpenBIOS] PPC: QEMU breaks static variables in OpenBIOS

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 05/01/13 19:43, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
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>> If you could review, and perhaps even enhance with the relevant change
>> for PPC64 then that would be great!
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> Actually here's a revised version that moves the __next_grab_slot back into
> C which is simpler still and continues to work for me. I guess in this form
> the same change could be applied as-is to hash_page_64()?

The address arithmetic looks very similar to va2pa() or ea_to_phys().
Could one of those be used instead?

Also since this is pretty hot code path, could you initialize the
pointer and perform the calculations just once during init?

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> ATB,
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> Mark.
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