Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: move registration of "host" CPU core type to machine code

[Greg Kurz]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:19:56 +0200
Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:47:30 +0200
> Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:48:57 +0200
> > Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:41:34 +0200
> > > Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:47:33 +0200
> > > > Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >       
> > > > > The CPU core abstraction belongs to the machine code. This also gets
> > > > > rid of some code duplication.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > 
> > > > > hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.h is also included elsewhere in target/ppc/kvm.c
> > > > > but this is already handled by the following cleanup patch:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/817598/
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  hw/ppc/spapr.c                  |    4 ++++
> > > > >  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c         |   34 
> > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> > > > >  include/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.h |    2 +-
> > > > >  target/ppc/kvm.c                |   12 ------------
> > > > >  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > > > > index 0ce3ec87ac59..e82c8532ffb0 100644
> > > > > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > > > > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > > > > @@ -2349,6 +2349,10 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(MachineState 
> > > > > *machine)
> > > > >      }
> > > > >  
> > > > >      /* init CPUs */
> > > > > +    if (kvm_enabled()) {
> > > > > +        spapr_cpu_core_register_host_type();
> > > > > +    }        
> > > > why don't we create it statically in hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> > > > like it's done in x86, i.e.
> > > > 
> > > >   static void x86_cpu_register_types(void)                              
> > > >            
> > > >   {                                                                     
> > > >            
> > > >   ...                              
> > > >   #ifdef CONFIG_KVM                                                     
> > > >            
> > > >       type_register_static(&host_x86_cpu_type_info);                    
> > > >            
> > > >   #endif                                                                
> > > >            
> > > >   } 
> > > >   type_init(x86_cpu_register_types)
> > > > 
> > > > and do the same for host CPU as well?
> > > >       
> > > 
> > > Hi Igor,
> > > 
> > > Not sure yet why we use dynamic types, but I'd be glad to dig a bit more. 
> > >    
> > 
> > So the problem is that it was decided to make the host CPU class a
> > subclass of the host's CPU model, and this requires all the CPU model
> > classes to be registered beforehand.
> > 
> > commit 5ba4576b858c0d6056f59abb7e17a2b63f7905f3
> > Author: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
> > Date:   Sat Feb 23 11:22:12 2013 +0000
> > 
> >     target-ppc: Make host CPU a subclass of the host's CPU model
> >     
> >     This avoids assigning individual class fields and contributors
> >     forgetting to add field assignments in KVM-only code.
> >     
> >     ppc_cpu_class_find_by_pvr() requires the CPU model classes to be
> >     registered, so defer host CPU type registration to kvm_arch_init().
> >     
> >     Only register the host CPU type if there is a class with matching PVR.
> >     This lets us drop error handling from instance_init.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
> >     Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
> > 
> > I can't think of an alternate way to do this. Any suggestion ?  
> I don't see from this commit a reason why it can't be done in cpu-models.c
> dependencies here are
>   mfpvr() - which probably should work without KVM

Correct.

>   ppc_cpu_class_by_pvr() - should work fine if 'host' type is being
>                            registered as the last among the other CPU types

We have:

ppc_cpu_class_by_pvr()
 object_class_get_list()
  object_class_foreach()
   object_class_foreach_tramp()
    type_initialize()
     type_get_parent()

type_initialize() recursively initializes all parent types, and
type_get_parent() aborts if the parent type isn't registered yet,
which may happen as long as all type_init() functions haven't been
called => ppc_cpu_class_by_pvr() cannot be safely called from a
type_init() function.

--
Greg