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Re: [Question] Regarding PMU initialization within the QEMU for ARM VCPU
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Igor Mammedov |
Subject: |
Re: [Question] Regarding PMU initialization within the QEMU for ARM VCPUs |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Jun 2020 17:31:16 +0200 |
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:37:45 +0200
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 03:04:33PM +0000, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I could see below within function fdt_add_pmu_nodes() part of
> > hw/arm/virt.c during virt machine initialization time:
...
>
> > Q4. This function fdt_* looks to be wrongly named. The info
> > being initialized here shall be used even when ACPI is
> > being used. Initialization part and FDT info looked
> > mixed up here if I am right?
>
> Agreed. The function has the wrong name. mach-virt has many functions that
> mix the initialization and fdt building together, but those functions are
> named something like create_foo(). Patches welcome.
that was where I gave up on cpu hotplug arm/virt the last time.
Ideally we should split out from create_foo() all firmware generation code
(fdt) and move it to virt_machine_done time + make sure that it could be
regenerated at reset time so guest would get updated FDT on reset.
>
> Thanks,
> drew
Re: [Question] Regarding PMU initialization within the QEMU for ARM VCPUs,
Igor Mammedov <=
RE: [Question] Regarding PMU initialization within the QEMU for ARM VCPUs, Salil Mehta, 2020/06/03