[OpenBIOS] PPC: QEMU breaks static variables in OpenBIOS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/01/13 20:21, Blue Swirl wrote:

(removed Ben from the CC as this is clearly an OpenBIOS issue)

>> 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?

I thought about that, but figured that because it was a hot-path I'd do 
it inline to save some cycles invoking another function. Since it uses 
the same OF_* constants as those functions then it should just work.

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

Unfortunately not :(  The whole issue is that the exception handlers are 
invoked in real mode with MMU disabled, and hence to locate your 
global/static pointer you'd still have to convert its address from 
virtual to real before you could do anything with it. So for me it made 
sense to just do the increment on the variable directly.


ATB,

Mark.