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authorLaszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>2017-01-12 19:24:15 +0100
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2017-01-18 22:59:53 +0200
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fw-cfg: turn FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS into a device property
We'd like to raise the value of FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS. Doing it naively could lead to problems with backward migration: a more recent QEMU (running an older machine type) would allow the guest, in fw_cfg_select(), to select a high key value that is unavailable in the same machine type implemented by the older (target) QEMU. On the target host, fw_cfg_data_read() for example could dereference nonexistent entries. As first step, size the FWCfgState.entries[*] and FWCfgState.entry_order arrays dynamically. All three array sizes will be influenced by the new field FWCfgState.file_slots (and matching device property). Make the following changes: - Replace the FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS macro with FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS_MIN (minimum count of fw_cfg file slots) in the header file. The value remains 0x10. - Replace all uses of FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS with a helper function called fw_cfg_file_slots(), returning the new property. - Eliminate the macro FW_CFG_MAX_ENTRY, and replace all its uses with a helper function called fw_cfg_max_entry(). - In the MMIO- and IO-mapped realize functions both, allocate all three arrays dynamically, based on the new property. - The new property defaults to FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS_MIN. This is going to be customized in the following patches. Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> Tested-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
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--- a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Selector Reg. Range Usage
0xc000 - 0xffff Arch. Specific (0x0000 - 0x3fff, RW, ignored in v2.4+)
In practice, the number of allowed firmware configuration items is given
-by the value of FW_CFG_MAX_ENTRY (see fw_cfg.h).
+by the value (FW_CFG_FILE_FIRST + FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS_MIN) (see fw_cfg.h).
= Guest-side DMA Interface =