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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] s390: sclp event support


From: Heinz Graalfs
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] s390: sclp event support
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:14:46 +0200

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 14:59 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: 
> Am 24.07.2012 09:37, schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> > From: Heinz Graalfs <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Several SCLP features are considered to be events. Those events don't
> > provide SCLP commands on their own, instead they are all based on
> > Read Event Data, Write Event Data, Write Event Mask and the service
> > interrupt. Follow-on patches will provide SCLP's Signal Quiesce (via
> > system_powerdown) and the ASCII console.
> > Further down the road the sclp line mode console and configuration
> > change events (e.g. cpu hotplug) can be implemented.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/s390x/Makefile.objs    |    1 +
> >  hw/s390x/event-facility.c |  390 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  hw/s390x/event-facility.h |  107 ++++++++++++
> >  hw/s390x/sclp.c           |   48 +++++-
> >  hw/s390x/sclp.h           |   44 +++++
> >  5 files changed, 587 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 hw/s390x/event-facility.c
> >  create mode 100644 hw/s390x/event-facility.h
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/s390x/Makefile.objs b/hw/s390x/Makefile.objs
> > index 1c14b96..b32fc52 100644
> > --- a/hw/s390x/Makefile.objs
> > +++ b/hw/s390x/Makefile.objs
> > @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ obj-y = s390-virtio-bus.o s390-virtio.o
> >  
> >  obj-y := $(addprefix ../,$(obj-y))
> >  obj-y += sclp.o
> > +obj-y += event-facility.o
> > diff --git a/hw/s390x/event-facility.c b/hw/s390x/event-facility.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..74a3514
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/hw/s390x/event-facility.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,390 @@
> > +/*
> > + * SCLP
> > + *    Event Facility
> > + *       handles SCLP event types
> > + *          - Signal Quiesce - system power down
> > + *          - ASCII Console Data - VT220 read and write
> > + *
> > + * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2012
> > + *
> > + * Authors:
> > + *  Heinz Graalfs <address@hidden>
> > + *
> > + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or (at 
> > your
> > + * option) any later version.  See the COPYING file in the top-level 
> > directory.
> > + *
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include "monitor.h"
> > +#include "sysemu.h"
> > +
> > +#include "sclp.h"
> > +#include "event-facility.h"
> > +
> > +typedef struct EventTypes {
> > +    BusState qbus;
> > +    SCLPEventFacility *event_facility;
> > +} EventTypes;
> > +
> > +struct SCLPEventFacility {
> > +    EventTypes sbus;
> > +    DeviceState *qdev;
> > +    /* guest' receive mask */
> > +    unsigned int receive_mask;
> > +};
> 
> The naming here strikes me as particularly odd...
> 
> IIUC this Event Facility is a device sitting on the SCLP bus.
> 
> But why does it expose a bus named "EventTypes"? Busses are usually
> named ...Bus (PCIBus, IDEBus, etc.). So is this actually a bus? If not,
> and if all you need is an SCLP-specific list API, maybe compare the
> sPAPR hypercall registration API.
> 

ok, the Event Facility is now on the main system bus.
We keep the renamed bus EventTypesBus for the sclpquiesce and
sclpconsole (...) items

> Regards,
> Andreas
> 






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