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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 05/23] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions



On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:51:58AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Create generic alloc and copy functions. We need
> > separate tools for memory allocation and copy to
> > provide multiboot2 protocol support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2 - suggestions/fixes:
> >    - generalize new functions names
> >      (suggested by Jan Beulich),
> >    - reduce number of casts
> >      (suggested by Jan Beulich).
>
> This contradicts retaining Andrew's R-b tag. Please remember to
> drop tags for everything you make non-trivial changes to.

OK.

> > @@ -55,50 +56,64 @@ static void *reloc_mbi_struct(void *old, unsigned int 
> > bytes)
> >      "    sub  %1,%0                   \n"
> >      "    and  $~15,%0                 \n"
> >      "    mov  %0,alloc-1b(%%edx)      \n"
> > -    "    mov  %0,%%edi                \n"
> > -    "    rep  movsb                   \n"
> > -       : "=&r" (new), "+c" (bytes), "+S" (old)
> > -   : : "edx", "edi", "memory");
> > -    return new;
> > +       : "=&r" (s) : "r" (bytes) : "edx", "memory");
>
> Can't "bytes" use a simple "g" constraint now?

Works...

> Preferably (i.e. if correct) this changed

..., so, I will change that.

> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Daniel

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