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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 3/5] hw/pxa2xx_lcd.c: drop target_phys_addr_t


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 3/5] hw/pxa2xx_lcd.c: drop target_phys_addr_t usage in device state
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:48:08 +0100
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Am 05.03.2012 09:30, schrieb Igor Mitsyanko:
> Pxa2xx LCD controller is intended to work with 32-bit bus and it has no 
> knowledge
> of system's physical address size, so it should not use target_phys_addr_t in 
> it's
> state. Convert three variables in DMAChannel state from target_phys_addr_t to 
> uint32_t,
> use VMSTATE_UINT32 instead of VMSTATE_UINTTL for these variables.
> We can do this safely because:
> 1) pxa2xx has 32-bit physical address;
> 2) rest of the code in file never assumes converted variables to have any size
> different from uint32_t;
> 3) we shouldn't have used VMSTATE_UINTTL in the first place because this macro
> is for target_ulong type (which can be different from target_phys_addr_t).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>

Some Coccinelle script or so to verify that also non-UINTTL fields match
types would probably be nice long-term.

Andreas

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