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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] pseries: Fixes and enhancements to L1 cache


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] pseries: Fixes and enhancements to L1 cache properties
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:54:05 +0100
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Am 15.03.2013 13:27, schrieb Alexander Graf:
> 
> On 14.03.2013, at 02:53, David Gibson wrote:
> 
>> PAPR requires that the device tree's CPU nodes have several properties
>> with information about the L1 cache.  We already create two of these
>> properties, but with incorrect names - "[id]cache-block-size" instead
>> of "[id]-cache-block-size" (note the extra hyphen).
>>
>> We were also missing some of the required cache properties.  This
>> patch adds the [id]-cache-line-size properties (which have the same
>> values as the block size properties in all current cases).  We also
>> add the [id]-cache-size properties.
>>
>> Adding the cache sizes requires some extra infrastructure in the
>> general target-ppc code to (optionally) set the cache sizes for
>> various CPUs.  The CPU family descriptions in translate_init.c can set
>> these sizes - this patch adds correct information for POWER7, I'm
>> leaving other CPU types to people who have a physical example to
>> verify against.  In addition, for -cpu host we take the values
>> advertised by the host (if available) and use those to override the
>> information based on PVR.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> hw/ppc/spapr.c              |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>> target-ppc/cpu.h            |    1 +
>> target-ppc/kvm.c            |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> target-ppc/translate_init.c |    4 ++++
>> 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> index 9a13697..7293082 100644
>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> @@ -333,10 +333,26 @@ static void *spapr_create_fdt_skel(const char 
>> *cpu_model,
>>         _FDT((fdt_property_string(fdt, "device_type", "cpu")));
>>
>>         _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "cpu-version", env->spr[SPR_PVR])));
>> -        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "dcache-block-size",
>> +        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "d-cache-block-size",
>>                                 env->dcache_line_size)));
>> -        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "icache-block-size",
>> +        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "d-cache-line-size",
>> +                                env->dcache_line_size)));
>> +        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "i-cache-block-size",
>> +                                env->icache_line_size)));
>> +        _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "i-cache-line-size",
>>                                 env->icache_line_size)));
>> +
>> +        if (env->l1_dcache_size) {
>> +            _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "d-cache-size", 
>> env->l1_dcache_size)));
>> +        } else {
>> +            fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Unknown L1 dcache size for cpu\n");
>> +        }
>> +        if (env->l1_icache_size) {
>> +            _FDT((fdt_property_cell(fdt, "i-cache-size", 
>> env->l1_icache_size)));
>> +        } else {
>> +            fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Unknown L1 icache size for cpu\n");
>> +        }
> 
> The L1 sizes should come from the class, not env, right? Andreas, any ideas 
> on this?

Generally speaking,

CPUPPCState: Only if this is used for TCG with an offset from AREG0 (or
for legacy grouping reasons).

PowerPCCPU: If you ever intend to let the user override this value
(per-instance) from the command line.

PowerPCCPUClass: If the value is always constant at runtime.

I can't tell from a brief look at this patch which may be the case here.

Andreas

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