On 02/23/2018 10:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Real hardware doesn't have an unlimited stack, so the unlimited > recursion in the ATAPI code smells a bit. In fact, the call to > ide_transfer_start easily becomes a tail call with a small change > to the code (patch 4). The remaining four patches move code around > so as to the turn the call back to ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end into > another tail call, and then convert the (double) tail recursion into > a while loop. > > I'm not sure how this can be tested, apart from adding a READ CD > test to ahci-test (which I don't really have time for now, hence > the RFC tag). The existing AHCI tests still pass, so patches 1-3 > aren't complete crap. > > Paolo > > Paolo Bonzini (5): > ide: push call to end_transfer_func out of start_transfer callback > ide: push end_transfer callback to ide_transfer_halt > ide: make ide_transfer_stop idempotent > atapi: call ide_set_irq before ide_transfer_start > ide: introduce ide_transfer_start_norecurse > > hw/ide/ahci.c | 12 +++++++----- > hw/ide/atapi.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------- > hw/ide/core.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- > include/hw/ide/internal.h | 3 +++ > 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) >
ACK receipt, I will get to this soon, sorry!
