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Re: [PATCH 00/32] Consolidate PIIX south bridges


From: Bernhard Beschow
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] Consolidate PIIX south bridges
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:24:22 +0000

Sorry, the titles should have contained a "v3"...

Am 4. Dezember 2022 19:05:21 UTC schrieb Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com>:
>This series consolidates the implementations of the PIIX3 and PIIX4 south
>
>bridges and is an extended version of [1]. The motivation is to share as much
>
>code as possible and to bring both device models to feature parity such that
>
>perhaps PIIX4 can become a drop-in-replacement for PIIX3 in the pc machine. 
>This
>
>could resolve the "Frankenstein" PIIX4-PM problem in PIIX3 discussed on this
>
>list before.
>
>
>
>The series is structured as follows: First, PIIX3 is changed to instantiate
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>internal devices itself, like PIIX4 does already. Second, PIIX3 gets prepared
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>for the merge with PIIX4 which includes some fixes, cleanups, and renamings.
>
>Third, the same is done for PIIX4. In step four the implementations are merged.
>
>Since some consolidations could be done easier with merged implementations, the
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>consolidation continues in step five which concludes the series.
>
>
>
>One particular challenge in this series was that the PIC of PIIX3 used to be
>
>instantiated outside of the south bridge while some sub functions require a PIC
>
>with populated qemu_irqs. This has been solved by introducing a proxy PIC which
>
>furthermore allows PIIX3 to be agnostic towards the virtualization technology
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>used (KVM, TCG, Xen). Due to consolidation PIIX4 gained the proxy PIC as well.
>
>
>
>Another challenge was dealing with optional devices where Peter already gave
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>advice in [1] which this series implements.
>
>
>
>A challenge still remains with consolidating PCI interrupt handling. There are
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>still board-specific piix3_pci_slot_get_pirq() and piix4_pci_slot_get_pirq()
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>which are implemented in isa/piix.c. Any advice how to resolve these would be
>
>highly appreaciated. See [2] for details.
>
>
>
>Last but not least there might be some opportunity to consolidate VM state
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>handling, probably by reusing the one from PIIX3. Since I'm not very familiar
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>with the requirements I didn't touch it so far.
>
>
>
>Testing done:
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>* make check
>
>* make check-avocado
>
>* Boot live CD:
>
>  * `qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -m 2G -accel kvm -cpu host -cdrom 
> manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso`
>
>  * `qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 2G -accel kvm -cpu host -cdrom 
> manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso`
>
>* 'qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-5kc-malta -hda 
>debian_wheezy_mipsel_standard.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0"`
>
>
>
>v3:
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>- Introduce one TYPE_ICH9_USB_UHCI(fn) rather than several TYPE_ICH9_USB_UHCIx 
>(Philippe)
>
>- Make proxy PIC generic (Philippe)
>
>- Track Malta's PIIX dependencies through KConfig
>
>- Rebase onto Philippe's 'hw/isa/piix4: Remove MIPS Malta specific bits' 
>series [3]

- Use OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE() for PIIXState (Mark in v1)

Best regards,
Bernhard

>
>- Also rebase onto latest master to resolve merge conflicts. This required 
>copying
>
>  Philippe's series as first three patches - please ignore.
>
>
>
>v2:
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>- Introduce TYPE_ defines for IDE and USB device models (Mark)
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>- Omit unexporting of PIIXState (Mark)
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>- Improve commit message of patch 5 to mention reset triggering through PCI
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>  configuration space (Mark)
>
>- Move reviewed patches w/o dependencies to the bottom of the series for early
>
>  upstreaming
>
>
>
>[1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-07/msg02348.html
>
>[2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg03310.html
>
>[3] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-10/msg05367.html
>
>
>
>Bernhard Beschow (29):
>
>  hw/mips/Kconfig: Track Malta's PIIX dependencies via Kconfig
>
>  hw/i386/pc_piix: Allow for setting properties before realizing PIIX3
>
>    south bridge
>
>  hw/usb/hcd-uhci: Introduce TYPE_ defines for device models
>
>  hw/i386/pc: Create RTC controllers in south bridges
>
>  hw/i386/pc: No need for rtc_state to be an out-parameter
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Create USB controller in host device
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Create power management controller in host device
>
>  hw/core: Introduce proxy-pic
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Create Proxy PIC in host device
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Create IDE controller in host device
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Wire up ACPI interrupt internally
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Resolve redundant PIIX_NUM_PIC_IRQS
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Rename pci_piix3_props for sharing with PIIX4
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Rename piix3_reset() for sharing with PIIX4
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix3_"
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Rename typedef PIIX3State to PIIXState
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Make PIIX4's ACPI and USB functions optional
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Remove unused code
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Use Proxy PIC device
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Reuse struct PIIXState from PIIX3
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Rename reset control operations to match PIIX3
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix4_"
>
>  hw/isa/piix3: Merge hw/isa/piix4.c
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Harmonize names of reset control memory regions
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Reuse PIIX3 base class' realize method in PIIX4
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Rename functions to be shared for interrupt triggering
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Consolidate IRQ triggering
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Share PIIX3 base class with PIIX4
>
>  hw/isa/piix: Drop the "3" from the PIIX base class
>
>
>
>Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (3):
>
>  hw/mips/malta: Introduce PIIX4_PCI_DEVFN definition
>
>  hw/mips/malta: Set PIIX4 IRQ routes in embedded bootloader
>
>  hw/isa/piix4: Correct IRQRC[A:D] reset values
>
>
>
> MAINTAINERS                             |   8 +-
>
> configs/devices/mips-softmmu/common.mak |   2 -
>
> hw/core/Kconfig                         |   3 +
>
> hw/core/meson.build                     |   1 +
>
> hw/core/proxy-pic.c                     |  70 +++++
>
> hw/i386/Kconfig                         |   4 +-
>
> hw/i386/pc.c                            |  16 +-
>
> hw/i386/pc_piix.c                       |  71 ++---
>
> hw/i386/pc_q35.c                        |  16 +-
>
> hw/isa/Kconfig                          |  10 +-
>
> hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c                       |   8 +
>
> hw/isa/meson.build                      |   3 +-
>
> hw/isa/{piix3.c => piix.c}              | 302 +++++++++++++++++-----
>
> hw/isa/piix4.c                          | 327 ------------------------
>
> hw/mips/Kconfig                         |   2 +
>
> hw/mips/malta.c                         |  38 ++-
>
> hw/usb/hcd-uhci.c                       |  16 +-
>
> hw/usb/hcd-uhci.h                       |   4 +
>
> include/hw/core/proxy-pic.h             |  54 ++++
>
> include/hw/i386/ich9.h                  |   2 +
>
> include/hw/i386/pc.h                    |   2 +-
>
> include/hw/southbridge/piix.h           |  30 ++-
>
> 22 files changed, 520 insertions(+), 469 deletions(-)
>
> create mode 100644 hw/core/proxy-pic.c
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> rename hw/isa/{piix3.c => piix.c} (56%)
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> delete mode 100644 hw/isa/piix4.c
>
> create mode 100644 include/hw/core/proxy-pic.h
>
>
>
>-- >
>2.38.1
>
>
>



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