Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/14] loader: support for unmapped ROM blobs

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 07/25/13 14:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:14:40PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On 07/24/13 18:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>      QTAILQ_FOREACH(rom, &roms, next) {
>>> +        if (rom->mr) {
>>> +            continue;
>>> +        }
>>>          if (rom->fw_file) {
>>>              continue;
>>>          }
>>>          if (rom->data == NULL) {
>>>              continue;
>>>          }
>>> -        cpu_physical_memory_write_rom(rom->addr, rom->data, rom->datasize);
>>> +        if (rom->mr) {
>>> +            void *host = memory_region_get_ram_ptr(rom->mr);
>>> +            memcpy(host, rom->data, rom->datasize);
>>
>> I think this code never ever runs ...
>>
>> cheers,
>>   Gerd
>>
> 
> 
> Could you be clearer please? This chunk is in rom_reset,
> I think it runs on reset.

You have the "if (rom->mr)" twice in the loop.  The first does continue
so the second will never ever evaluate to true, thereby making the
memcpy dead code.

cheers,
  Gerd