Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 5/6] xics: directly register ICPState objects to vmstate

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The ICPState objects are currently registered to vmstate as qdev objects.
> Their instance ids are hence computed automatically in the migration code,
> and thus depends on the order the CPU cores were plugged.
> 
> If the destination had its CPU cores plugged in a different order than the
> source, then ICPState objects will have different instance_ids and load
> the wrong state.
> 
> Since CPU objects have a reliable cpu_index which is already used as
> instance_id in vmstate, let's use it for ICPState as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

This is certainly an improvement.  You answered my query on the
previous version as to why this doesn't break migration, but that
information should go into the commit message.

So, ideally, we would use the XICS "server number" as the migration
key.  That's an architected part of the XICs state, since those values
are entered explicitly into the ICS.  We have a way to go from server
number to ICP at the moment, but not the reverse, but we can fix that.

Unfortunately I think those won't always match existing automatically
generated IDs, which makes things harder.

> ---
>  hw/intc/xics.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/intc/xics.c b/hw/intc/xics.c
> index 7ccfb53c55a0..faa5c631f655 100644
> --- a/hw/intc/xics.c
> +++ b/hw/intc/xics.c
> @@ -344,10 +344,14 @@ static void icp_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>      }
>  
>      qemu_register_reset(icp_reset, dev);
> +    vmstate_register(NULL, icp->cs->cpu_index, &vmstate_icp_server, icp);
>  }
>  
>  static void icp_unrealize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  {
> +    ICPState *icp = ICP(dev);
> +
> +    vmstate_unregister(NULL, &vmstate_icp_server, icp);
>      qemu_unregister_reset(icp_reset, dev);
>  }
>  
> @@ -355,7 +359,6 @@ static void icp_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
>  {
>      DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
>  
> -    dc->vmsd = &vmstate_icp_server;
>      dc->realize = icp_realize;
>      dc->unrealize = icp_unrealize;
>  }
> 

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