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authorPeter Maydell2018-12-16 17:32:42 +0100
committerPeter Maydell2018-12-16 17:32:43 +0100
commitb019f5e5375224a003f260c89d424fea7767b7fc (patch)
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parentMerge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging (diff)
parentvirt: Fix broken indentation (diff)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-misc-20181214' into staging
miscellaneous patches: * checkpatch.pl: Enforce multiline comment syntax * Rename cpu_physical_memory_write_rom() to address_space_write_rom() * disas, monitor, elf_ops: Use address_space_read() to read memory * Remove load_image() in favour of load_image_size() * Fix some minor memory leaks in arm boards/devices * virt: fix broken indentation # gpg: Signature made Fri 14 Dec 2018 14:41:20 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 3C2525ED14360CDE # gpg: Good signature from "Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>" # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@gmail.com>" # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>" # Primary key fingerprint: E1A5 C593 CD41 9DE2 8E83 15CF 3C25 25ED 1436 0CDE * remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-misc-20181214: (22 commits) virt: Fix broken indentation target/arm: Create timers in realize, not init tests/test-arm-mptimer: Don't leak string memory hw/sd/sdhci: Don't leak memory region in sdhci_sysbus_realize() hw/arm/mps2-tz.c: Free mscname string in make_dma() target/arm: Free name string in ARMCPRegInfo hashtable entries include/hw/loader.h: Document load_image_size() hw/core/loader.c: Remove load_image() device_tree.c: Don't use load_image() hw/block/tc58128.c: Don't use load_image() hw/i386/multiboot.c: Don't use load_image() hw/i386/pc.c: Don't use load_image() hw/pci/pci.c: Don't use load_image() hw/smbios/smbios.c: Don't use load_image() hw/ppc/ppc405_boards: Don't use load_image() hw/ppc/mac_newworld, mac_oldworld: Don't use load_image() elf_ops.h: Use address_space_write() to write memory monitor: Use address_space_read() to read memory disas.c: Use address_space_read() to read memory Rename cpu_physical_memory_write_rom() to address_space_write_rom() ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/include/hw/loader.h b/include/hw/loader.h
index 67a0af84ac..0a0ad808ea 100644
--- a/include/hw/loader.h
+++ b/include/hw/loader.h
@@ -11,7 +11,22 @@
* On error, errno is also set as appropriate.
*/
int64_t get_image_size(const char *filename);
-int load_image(const char *filename, uint8_t *addr); /* deprecated */
+/**
+ * load_image_size: load an image file into specified buffer
+ * @filename: Path to the image file
+ * @addr: Buffer to load image into
+ * @size: Size of buffer in bytes
+ *
+ * Load an image file from disk into the specified buffer.
+ * If the image is larger than the specified buffer, only
+ * @size bytes are read (this is not considered an error).
+ *
+ * Prefer to use the GLib function g_file_get_contents() rather
+ * than a "get_image_size()/g_malloc()/load_image_size()" sequence.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of bytes read, or -1 on error. On error,
+ * errno is also set as appropriate.
+ */
ssize_t load_image_size(const char *filename, void *addr, size_t size);
/**load_image_targphys_as: