On 6/21/2023 4:00 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:39:44PM -0400, Steven Sistare wrote:
>>>> -        jmp mainloop
>>>> +        # should this test suspend?
>>>> +        mov (suspend_me),%eax
>>>> +        cmp $0,%eax
>>>> +        je mainloop
>>>> +
>>>> +        # are we waking after suspend?  do not suspend again.
>>>> +        mov $suspended,%eax
>>>
>>> So IIUC then it'll use 4 bytes over 100MB range which means we need at
>>> least 100MB+4bytes.. not obvious for a HIGH_ADDR definition to me..
>>>
>>> Could we just define a variable inside the section like suspend_me?
>>
>> No, because modifications to this memory backing the boot block are not
>> copied to the destination.  The dest reads a clean copy of the boot block
>> from disk, as specified by the qemu command line arguments.
> 
> Oh okay, can we use HIGH_ADDR-4, then?  I just still think it'll be nice if
> we can keep HIGH_ADDR the high bar of the whole range.

Sure.  I'll use LOW_ADDR + 4, and add a comment.

- Steve

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