Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] i386/cpu: add IsDefined flag to smp-cache property

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:54:08 +0000
Alireza Sanaee <alireza.sanaee@huawei.com> wrote:

> This commit adds IsDefined flag to the object and this helps in avoiding
> extra checks for every single layer of caches in both x86 and ARM.
> 
> There is already a discussion on mailing list to have this flag. A
> patch that enables this flag will follow later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alireza Sanaee <alireza.sanaee@huawei.com>
Makes sense.  Zhao Liu, is this something you plan to use in the x86
code?

Either way
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

> ---
>  hw/core/machine-smp.c | 2 ++
>  include/hw/boards.h   | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/core/machine-smp.c b/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> index 9a28194676..5a02bbf584 100644
> --- a/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> +++ b/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> @@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ bool machine_parse_smp_cache(MachineState *ms,
>          return false;
>      }
>  
> +    ms->smp_cache.IsDefined = true;
> +
>      return true;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/include/hw/boards.h b/include/hw/boards.h
> index db2aa2b706..2883a57084 100644
> --- a/include/hw/boards.h
> +++ b/include/hw/boards.h
> @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ typedef struct CpuTopology {
>  
>  typedef struct SmpCache {
>      SmpCacheProperties props[CACHE_LEVEL_AND_TYPE__MAX];
> +    bool IsDefined;
>  } SmpCache;
>  
>  /**