Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] coordinate cpu hotplug/unplug bewteen QEMU and kernel by EC

[li guang]

在 2013-06-06四的 11:13 +0300，Michael S. Tsirkin写道：
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:16:53AM +0800, liguang wrote:
> > v2: 
> > 1.remove PIIX4_PROC_BASE operations for cpu hotplug
> > 2.fix wrong description fo cpu-del
> > 
> > patch 1 adds ACPI Embedded Controller (EC),
> > refer-to:
> > ACPI SPEC v5 chapter 12
> > "ACPI Embedded Controller Interface Specification"
> > 
> > EC is a standard ACPI device, it plays flexible roles,
> > especially be event carrier, it can pass events between platform
> > and OS, so OS can execute _Qxx method which defined
> > by yourself and query EC's ACPI space which can be a buffer for
> > many purposes
> > 
> > here, I want to deliver CPU online/offline event between
> > OS and QEMU for CPU hotplug feature, then we will don't
> > need to "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online"
> > again after 'cpu-add' and also for offline to do real cpu
> > removal.
> 
> So, it's another channel to the guest.
> Can't qemu-ga do this in userspace, using the existing channel?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with qemu-ga,
anyway, maybe we don't want to do things like
'exec("echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online")'
in userspace.

BTW, Michael,
do you think if we use EC space to pass info between
platform(QEMU) and OS(PM) instead of 'PIIX4_PROC_BASE' and
something like it can bring some convenience?
for we can directly operate on EC space, we don't have to
register memory regions and ops for them any more, and also,
these regions are mostly not exist in real platforms,
this a motivation that I add this device.

> 
> > what I am trying to do is emulated physical addition/removal
> > (like described by linux kernel document for cpu hotplug --
> > linux-2.6/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt) for QEMU.
> > 
> > these RFC patches are sent for demo what I am trying to do.
> > 
> > the design process simply like following:
> > 
> > hotplug
> > qemu::ec::sci -> kernel::ec::gpe::notifier->
> > kernel::cpu_physic_hotplug::handler->kernel::cpu_up
> > 
> > unplug
> > kernel::cpu_down::kernel::cpu_physic_hotplug::handler->
> > kernel::ec::ec_write->qemu::ec::->qemu::cpu-unplug
> > 
> > sorry, I should poll cpu-unplug cmd sent from kernel,
> > but, it's a little trivial, I want do it later.
> > 
> > for kernel patches:
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1503460
> > 
> > 
> > Li Guang (8)
> >      acpi: add ACPI Embedded Controller support
> >      ich9: add notifer for ec to generate sci
> >      ec: add operations for _Qxx events
> >      piix4: add notifer for ec to generate sci
> >      piix4: add events for cpu hotplug
> >      qmp: add 'cpu-del' command
> >      pc: add EC qdev init for piix & q35
> >      cpu-hotplug: remove memory regison for cpu hotplug
> > 
> > default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |   1 +
> > hw/acpi/Makefile.objs              |   1 +
> > hw/acpi/ec.c                       | 225 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > hw/acpi/ich9.c                     |  15 +++++++++++++++
> > hw/acpi/piix4.c                    |  68 ++++++++++++++
> > hw/i386/pc.c                       |  46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > hw/i386/pc_piix.c                  |   7 +
> > hw/i386/pc_q35.c                   |   6 +
> > include/hw/acpi/ec.h               |  44 ++++++
> > include/hw/acpi/ich9.h             |   1 +
> > include/hw/boards.h                |   5 +++--
> > include/hw/i386/pc.h               |   1 +
> > qapi-schema.json                   |  13 +++++++++++++
> > qmp-commands.hx                    |  23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > qmp.c                              |   9 +++++++++
> > 15 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 hw/acpi/ec.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/hw/acpi/ec.h