Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/13] qdev-properties: Add pci-devaddr property

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:14:36PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-06-10 11:35, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:52:21AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Add a property to receive a fully qualified PCI device address.
> >>
> >> Will be used by KVM device assignment.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
> > 
> > I'd like to ponder this a bit more.  What bothers me is that this mixes
> > two things:
> >     - addressing of qemu devices
> >             Using full device addresses there is a legacy feature,
> >             users really should supply the parent bus and
> >             the bus local address.
> >     - addressing devices on the linux host for assignment
> >             It so happens that the syntax matches
> >             the legacy naming very closely,
> >             but conceptually is completely unrelated
> 
> We can keep code duplications, of course.
> 
> > 
> >> ---
> >>  hw/qdev-properties.c |   48 
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  hw/qdev.h            |    3 +++
> >>  2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/hw/qdev-properties.c b/hw/qdev-properties.c
> >> index 32e41f1..6634f22 100644
> >> --- a/hw/qdev-properties.c
> >> +++ b/hw/qdev-properties.c
> >> @@ -946,6 +946,54 @@ PropertyInfo qdev_prop_pci_devfn = {
> >>      .max   = 0xFFFFFFFFULL,
> >>  };
> >>  
> >> +static void get_pci_devaddr(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
> >> +                            const char *name, Error **errp)
> >> +{
> >> +    DeviceState *dev = DEVICE(obj);
> >> +    Property *prop = opaque;
> >> +    PCIDeviceAddress *addr = qdev_get_prop_ptr(dev, prop);
> >> +    char buffer[10 + 3 + 1];
> >> +    char *p = buffer;
> >> +
> >> +    snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%04x:%02x:%02x.%02x",
> >> +             addr->domain, addr->bus, addr->slot, addr->function);
> >> +
> >> +    visit_type_str(v, &p, name, errp);
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static void set_pci_devaddr(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
> >> +                            const char *name, Error **errp)
> >> +{
> >> +    DeviceState *dev = DEVICE(obj);
> >> +    Property *prop = opaque;
> >> +    PCIDeviceAddress *addr = qdev_get_prop_ptr(dev, prop);
> >> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
> >> +    char *str;
> >> +
> >> +    if (dev->state != DEV_STATE_CREATED) {
> >> +        error_set(errp, QERR_PERMISSION_DENIED);
> >> +        return;
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >> +    visit_type_str(v, &str, name, &local_err);
> >> +    if (local_err) {
> >> +        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> >> +        return;
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >> +    if (qemu_parse_pci_devaddr(str, addr,
> >> +                               PCI_DEVADDR_WITH_DOM_BUS_OPT |
> >> +                               PCI_DEVADDR_WITH_FUNC) < 0) {
> >> +        error_set_from_qdev_prop_error(errp, EINVAL, dev, prop, str);
> >> +    }
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +PropertyInfo qdev_prop_pci_devaddr = {
> >> +    .name  = "pci-devaddr",
> > 
> > This is a very confusing name.  Something like host-pci-address?
> 
> That might be an option.
> 
> > This also should be built on linux only.
> 
> Why, what do we gain with #ifdefs? And isn't the addressing concept generic?

Not the XXX:XX.X format. And not the concept of a domain.

> > Can this be part of device assignment code instead of qdev?
> 
> How does VFIO address their host devices?

You get an fd I think. I think you don't need to know the host address.

> And Xen?
> 
> Jan
> 
>