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* [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] arm: powerpc: comment halt(code)
@ 2019-04-09 12:51 Andrew Jones
  2019-04-09 12:58 ` Thomas Huth
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Jones @ 2019-04-09 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm; +Cc: alexandru.elisei, pbonzini, rkrcmar

We're being a bit tricky when we change the prototype of halt() to
take 'code' as an argument. Doing this gives us a last chance to
see it when inspecting the halted unit test state (it'll be in
r0/x0 for arm/arm64 and r3 for powerpc.) Let's comment this trick
to avoid confusion.

Suggested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
---
 lib/arm/io.c     | 10 ++++++++--
 lib/powerpc/io.c |  9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/arm/io.c b/lib/arm/io.c
index 8226b765bdc5..99fd31560084 100644
--- a/lib/arm/io.c
+++ b/lib/arm/io.c
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 
 #include "io.h"
 
-extern void halt(int code);
-
 static struct spinlock uart_lock;
 /*
  * Use this guess for the uart base in order to make an attempt at
@@ -89,6 +87,14 @@ void puts(const char *s)
 	spin_unlock(&uart_lock);
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * Defining halt to take 'code' as an argument guarantees that it will
+ * be in x0/r0 when we halt. That gives us a final chance to see the exit
+ * status while inspecting the halted unit test state.
+ */
+extern void halt(int code);
+
 void exit(int code)
 {
 	chr_testdev_exit(code);
diff --git a/lib/powerpc/io.c b/lib/powerpc/io.c
index 217eb0770ef5..a381688bce51 100644
--- a/lib/powerpc/io.c
+++ b/lib/powerpc/io.c
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include "io.h"
 
-extern void halt(int code);
-
 static struct spinlock print_lock;
 
 void io_init(void)
@@ -28,6 +26,13 @@ void puts(const char *s)
 	spin_unlock(&print_lock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Defining halt to take 'code' as an argument guarantees that it will
+ * be in r3 when we halt. That gives us a final chance to see the exit
+ * status while inspecting the halted unit test state.
+ */
+extern void halt(int code);
+
 void exit(int code)
 {
 // FIXME: change this print-exit/rtas-poweroff to chr_testdev_exit(),
-- 
2.20.1


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