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[08/14] MIPS: remove seeks from load_flat_binary()

Message ID 1438253551-2378-9-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com
State Not Applicable, archived
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Andre Przywara July 30, 2015, 10:52 a.m. UTC
Remove the need to rewind the kernel image file if loading it as a
flat binary by re-using the already read portion of the file passed
in as a buffer.
This allows the MIPS flat binary kernel image to be read from a pipe.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
---
 mips/kvm.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mips/kvm.c b/mips/kvm.c
index ed81a02..d970ee0 100644
--- a/mips/kvm.c
+++ b/mips/kvm.c
@@ -164,24 +164,26 @@  static void kvm__mips_install_cmdline(struct kvm *kvm)
 /* Load at the 1M point. */
 #define KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x1000000
 
-static bool load_flat_binary(struct kvm *kvm, int fd_kernel)
+static bool load_flat_binary(struct kvm *kvm, int fd_kernel, const void *buf,
+			     int buflen)
 {
 	void *p;
 	void *k_start;
 	int nr;
 
-	if (lseek(fd_kernel, 0, SEEK_SET) < 0)
-		die_perror("lseek");
-
 	p = k_start = guest_flat_to_host(kvm, KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR);
 
+	memcpy(p, buf, buflen);
+	p += buflen;
+
 	while ((nr = read(fd_kernel, p, 65536)) > 0)
 		p += nr;
 
 	kvm->arch.is64bit = true;
 	kvm->arch.entry_point = 0xffffffff81000000ull;
 
-	pr_info("Loaded kernel to 0x%x (%ld bytes)", KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR, (long int)(p - k_start));
+	pr_info("Loaded kernel to 0x%x (%ld bytes)", KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR,
+		(long int)(p - k_start));
 
 	return true;
 }
@@ -357,7 +359,7 @@  bool kvm__arch_load_kernel_image(struct kvm *kvm, int fd_kernel, int fd_initrd,
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	return load_flat_binary(kvm, fd_kernel);
+	return load_flat_binary(kvm, fd_kernel, &eh, sizeof(eh));
 }
 
 void ioport__map_irq(u8 *irq)