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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Move boot_splash_filedata va


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Move boot_splash_filedata variables into fw_cfg.c
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 13:32:42 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1

Hi Thomas,

On 3/1/19 12:28 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 25/02/2019 19.31, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On 02/25/19 17:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> The global boot_splash_filedata and boot_splash_filedata_size variables
>>> are only used in fw_cfg.c. So there is really no need that these need
>>> to be global and reside in vl.c. Move them to fw_cfg.c instead.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c         |  9 +++++++++
>>>  include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h |  1 +
>>>  include/sysemu/sysemu.h   |  2 --
>>>  vl.c                      | 10 +---------
>>>  4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>>> index 7fdf04a..15f0023 100644
>>> --- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>>> +++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>>> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ struct FWCfgEntry {
>>>  #define JPG_FILE 0
>>>  #define BMP_FILE 1
>>>  
>>> +static uint8_t *boot_splash_filedata;
>>> +static size_t boot_splash_filedata_size;
>>> +
>>>  static char *read_splashfile(char *filename, gsize *file_sizep,
>>>                               int *file_typep)
>>>  {
>>> @@ -175,6 +178,12 @@ static void fw_cfg_bootsplash(FWCfgState *s)
>>>      }
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +void fw_cfg_res_free(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    g_free(boot_splash_filedata);
>>> +    boot_splash_filedata = NULL;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  static void fw_cfg_reboot(FWCfgState *s)
>>>  {
>>>      const char *reboot_timeout = NULL;
>>> diff --git a/include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h b/include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h
>>> index f5a6895..16d237c 100644
>>> --- a/include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h
>>> +++ b/include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h
>>> @@ -225,5 +225,6 @@ FWCfgState *fw_cfg_init_mem_wide(hwaddr ctl_addr,
>>>  
>>>  FWCfgState *fw_cfg_find(void);
>>>  bool fw_cfg_dma_enabled(void *opaque);
>>> +void fw_cfg_res_free(void);
>>>  
>>>  #endif
>>> diff --git a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
>>> index 4b5a6b7..63a5eed 100644
>>> --- a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
>>> +++ b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
>>> @@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ extern int no_shutdown;
>>>  extern int old_param;
>>>  extern int boot_menu;
>>>  extern bool boot_strict;
>>> -extern uint8_t *boot_splash_filedata;
>>> -extern size_t boot_splash_filedata_size;
>>>  extern bool enable_mlock;
>>>  extern bool enable_cpu_pm;
>>>  extern QEMUClockType rtc_clock;
>>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
>>> index 502857a..f769cce 100644
>>> --- a/vl.c
>>> +++ b/vl.c
>>> @@ -187,8 +187,6 @@ unsigned int nb_prom_envs = 0;
>>>  const char *prom_envs[MAX_PROM_ENVS];
>>>  int boot_menu;
>>>  bool boot_strict;
>>> -uint8_t *boot_splash_filedata;
>>> -size_t boot_splash_filedata_size;
>>>  bool wakeup_suspend_enabled;
>>>  
>>>  int icount_align_option;
>>> @@ -559,12 +557,6 @@ const char *qemu_get_vm_name(void)
>>>      return qemu_name;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> -static void res_free(void)
>>> -{
>>> -    g_free(boot_splash_filedata);
>>> -    boot_splash_filedata = NULL;
>>> -}
>>> -
>>>  static int default_driver_check(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
>>>  {
>>>      const char *driver = qemu_opt_get(opts, "driver");
>>> @@ -4585,7 +4577,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>>>      job_cancel_sync_all();
>>>      bdrv_close_all();
>>>  
>>> -    res_free();
>>> +    fw_cfg_res_free();
>>>  
>>>      /* vhost-user must be cleaned up before chardevs.  */
>>>      tpm_cleanup();
>>>
>>
>> The res_free() function call in main() goes back to commit 3d3b8303c6f8
>> ("showing a splash picture when start", 2011-07-29). That seems to be
>> the original addition of the bootsplash feature. And, res_free() appears
>> to simply release dynamic memory before the QEMU process exits.
>>
>> Do we release malloc'd memory, as a general rule, before we exit the
>> QEMU process (with exit status 0)? My impression has been that we don't
>> care; we just let the kernel forget about all memory that the QEMU
>> process used to own.
>>
>> If that's the case, I suggest to respin this patch, deleting res_free()
>> completely. AFAICS there are no other call sites. That would be a nice
>> improvement IMO (we wouldn't have to extend "include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h").
> 
> Hmm, thinking about this for a while, the fw_cfg is a qdev device, so I
> think we should at least add an unrealize() function where we clean up
> the allocated memory, even if the unrealize function is currently not
> called yet, since the device never gets destroyed...

I worked on a similar cleanup last month, I can submit it this
afternoon. Do you mind having a look at it before reworking this patch?
I'm not sure which one is the best, but since the work is already done I
don't want any of us waste his time :)

Thanks,

Phil.



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