Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v3 07/10] hw/arm/virt: Introduce opt-in feature "fdt"

[Shameerali Kolothum Thodi]

Hi Eric,

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> From: Auger Eric [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 29 March 2019 09:32
> To: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <address@hidden>;
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> Cc: Linuxarm <address@hidden>; xuwei (O) <address@hidden>;
> Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>; Ard Biesheuvel
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] hw/arm/virt: Introduce opt-in feature "fdt"
> 
> Hi Shameer,
> 
> [ + Laszlo, Ard, Leif ]
> 
> On 3/21/19 11:47 AM, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> > This is to disable/enable populating DT nodes in case
> > any conflict with acpi tables. The default is "off".
> The name of the option sounds misleading to me. Also we don't really
> know the scope of the disablement. At the moment this just aims to
> prevent the hotpluggable dt nodes from being added if we boot in ACPI mode.

Yes, I was not very happy with the name "fdt". If this is not useful other than
this device memory conflict case, then we can be more specific. But I am not 
sure
we might need this for any other future conflicts, hence a more generic name. 

May be "force_fdt" or "dimm_fdt"? I am open to suggestions.

> >
> > This will be used in subsequent patch where cold plug
> > device-memory support is added for DT boot.
> I am concerned about the fact that in dt mode, by default, you won't see
> any PCDIMM nodes.

True. But is there any other way to detect that the Guest is using DT?

Thanks,
Shameer

> > If DT memory node support is added for cold-plugged device
> > memory, those memory will be visible to Guest kernel via
> > UEFI GetMemoryMap() and gets treated as early boot memory.
> Don't we have an issue in UEFI then. Normally the SRAT indicates whether
> the slots are hotpluggable or not. Shouldn't the UEFI code look at this
> info.
> > Hence memory becomes non hot-un-unpluggable even if Guest
> > is booted in ACPI mode.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/arm/virt.c         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/hw/arm/virt.h |  1 +
> >  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
> > index 13db0e9..b602151 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
> > @@ -1717,6 +1717,20 @@ static void virt_set_highmem(Object *obj, bool
> value, Error **errp)
> >      vms->highmem = value;
> >  }
> >
> > +static bool virt_get_fdt(Object *obj, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    VirtMachineState *vms = VIRT_MACHINE(obj);
> > +
> > +    return vms->use_fdt;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void virt_set_fdt(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    VirtMachineState *vms = VIRT_MACHINE(obj);
> > +
> > +    vms->use_fdt = value;
> > +}
> > +
> >  static bool virt_get_its(Object *obj, Error **errp)
> >  {
> >      VirtMachineState *vms = VIRT_MACHINE(obj);
> > @@ -2005,6 +2019,15 @@ static void virt_instance_init(Object *obj)
> >      object_property_set_description(obj, "gic-version",
> >                                      "Set GIC version. "
> >                                      "Valid values are 2, 3 and host",
> NULL);
> > +    /* fdt is disabled by default */
> > +    vms->use_fdt = false;
> > +    object_property_add_bool(obj, "fdt", virt_get_fdt,
> > +                             virt_set_fdt, NULL);
> > +    object_property_set_description(obj, "fdt",
> > +                                    "Set on/off to enable/disable
> device tree "
> > +                                    "nodes in case any conflict with
> ACPI"
> in case of
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric
> > +                                    "(eg: device memory node)",
> > +                                    NULL);
> >
> >      vms->highmem_ecam = !vmc->no_highmem_ecam;
> >
> > diff --git a/include/hw/arm/virt.h b/include/hw/arm/virt.h
> > index c5e4c96..14b2e0a 100644
> > --- a/include/hw/arm/virt.h
> > +++ b/include/hw/arm/virt.h
> > @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ typedef struct {
> >      bool highmem_ecam;
> >      bool its;
> >      bool virt;
> > +    bool use_fdt;
> >      int32_t gic_version;
> >      VirtIOMMUType iommu;
> >      struct arm_boot_info bootinfo;
> >