Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/13] accel: introduce AccelState.global_props

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:17:39PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 08:49:39PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Introduce this new field for the accelerator instances so that each
> > specific accelerator in the future can register its own global
> > properties to be used further by the system.  It works just like how the
> > old machine compatible properties do, but only tailored for
> > accelerators.
> > 
> > Use the newly exported register_compat_prop() to pass the accelerator
> > global properties to the global_props list.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> 
> As noted on other patches, I believe this should be
> AccelClass::global_props (initialized statically in class_init)
> instead of AccelState::global_props (built at runtime).
> Otherwise, I don't see the benefit of the new field.

The reason is that there is property that can only be defined after
user specified all the parameters (when kvm irqchip is enabled). See:

static void kvm_register_accel_props(KVMState *kvm)
{
    AccelState *accel = ACCEL(kvm);
    AccelPropValue *entry;

    for (entry = x86_kvm_default_props; entry->prop; entry++) {
        accel_register_x86_cpu_props(accel, entry->prop, entry->value);
    }

    if (!kvm_irqchip_in_kernel()) {
        accel_register_x86_cpu_props(accel, "x2apic", "off");
    }
}

So the list is not really static when class init.  Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu