[PATCH] powerpc: Add dt_xlate_addr() to bootwrapper
Mark A. Greer
mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Apr 14 08:36:54 EST 2007
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:25:51PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:23:43PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > +int dt_xlate(void *node, u32 *buf, int buflen, int res, unsigned long *addr,
> > + unsigned long *size)
> > {
> > - u32 last_addr[MAX_ADDR_CELLS];
> > - u32 this_addr[MAX_ADDR_CELLS];
> > - u32 buf[MAX_ADDR_CELLS * MAX_RANGES * 3];
> > + u32 last_addr[DT_MAX_ADDR_CELLS];
> > + u32 this_addr[DT_MAX_ADDR_CELLS];
> > void *parent;
>
> This causes it to use the caller-provided buffer to read the ranges
> property, which may not be large enough in the case of dt_xlate_addr().
> Plus, buf being a pointer rather than an array will cause the sizeof(buf)
> that gets passed to getprop() to be only sizeof(u32 *).
>
> Instead, I'd declare "rangebuf" as a static array, and accept "regbuf" as
> a parameter (with a comment that regbuf can alias rangebuf). Then,
> dt_xlate_reg() can use rangebuf as regbuf, dt_xlate_addr()'s caller
> doesn't have to worry about its buffer being big enough to hold ranges,
> and we don't have to allocate two 384-byte buffers on the stack.
Okay, I'll look closer this time. Thanks for checking.
Mark
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