[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] load_linux: change kernel header size allocation

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 19:26:08 CET 2013


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:27 AM, liguang <lig.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> it's not necessary to alloc 8K bytes for kernel
> header, 0.5K is enough.
>
> Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  hw/pc.c |   10 ++++++----
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
> index 0ccd775..b6b236f 100644
> --- a/hw/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/pc.c
> @@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ static long get_file_size(FILE *f)
>      return size;
>  }
>
> +#define HEADER_SIZE 0x200
> +#define HEADER_SIGNATURE 0x53726448
> +
>  static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
>                         const char *kernel_filename,
>                         const char *initrd_filename,
> @@ -646,7 +649,7 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
>      uint16_t protocol;
>      int setup_size, kernel_size, initrd_size = 0, cmdline_size;
>      uint32_t initrd_max;
> -    uint8_t header[8192], *setup, *kernel, *initrd_data;
> +    uint8_t header[HEADER_SIZE], *setup, *kernel, *initrd_data;
>      hwaddr real_addr, prot_addr, cmdline_addr, initrd_addr = 0;
>      FILE *f;
>      char *vmode;
> @@ -665,8 +668,7 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
>          fprintf(stderr, "can't get size of kernel image file\n");
>          exit(1);
>      }
> -    if (fread(header, 1, MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size), f) !=
> -        MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size)) {
> +    if (fread(header, 1, HEADER_SIZE, f) <= 0) {
>          fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load kernel '%s': %s\n",
>                  kernel_filename, strerror(errno));
>          exit(1);
> @@ -676,7 +678,7 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
>  #if 0
>      fprintf(stderr, "header magic: %#x\n", ldl_p(header+0x202));
>  #endif
> -    if (ldl_p(header+0x202) == 0x53726448)
> +    if (ldl_p(header+0x202) == HEADER_SIGNATURE)

Please add braces while touching the line and add spaces around '+'.
Maybe you have not checked the patches with checkpatch.pl?

>          protocol = lduw_p(header+0x206);
>      else {
>          /* This looks like a multiboot kernel. If it is, let's stop
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
>



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