[PATCH v9 0/8] hw/arm/virt: Introduce cpu topology support

[Yanan Wang]

Hi,

This is the latest v9 series which supports exposing vCPU topology
to the guest for Arm virt machines.

Description of this series:
Once the view of an accurate virtual cpu topology is provided to guest,
with a well-designed vCPU pinning to the pCPU we may get a huge benefit,
e.g., the scheduling performance improvement. See Dario Faggioli's
research and the related performance tests in [1] for reference.

This patch series introduces cpu topology support for Arm platform.
Both cpu-map in DT and ACPI PPTT table are introduced to store the
topology information. And we only describe the topology information
to 6.2 and newer virt machines, considering compatibility.

[1] 
https://kvmforum2020.sched.com/event/eE1y/virtual-topology-for-virtual-machines
-friend-or-foe-dario-faggioli-suse

Changelog:
v8->v9:
- add Eric's R-bs, thanks!
- address Eric's suggestions to update some function comments and commit msg 
(patch #5)
- make build_processor_hierarchy_node static as it's only used by build_pptt 
(patch #4)
- retested.
- v8: 
20211014132206.19220-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20211014132206.19220-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/

v7->v8:
- rebased on top of master (commit e5b2333f24)
- only add one generic expected file for PPTT instead of four, which works
  fine enough for now (patch #6 and #8 updated)
- v7: 
20211007030746.10420-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20211007030746.10420-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/

v6->v7:
- rebased on top of master (commit ca61fa4b80)
- use newly introduced acpi_table_begin/acpi_table_end APIs to build PPTT
  (patch #5 updated)
- add reference files for PPTT to fix broken bios-table-test for Aarch64
  virt machine (patch #6-#8 added)
- v6: 
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210824122016.144364-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/

Andrew Jones (2):
  hw/arm/virt: Add cpu-map to device tree
  hw/acpi/aml-build: Add PPTT table

Yanan Wang (6):
  hw/arm/virt: Only describe cpu topology since virt-6.2
  device_tree: Add qemu_fdt_add_path
  hw/acpi/aml-build: Add Processor hierarchy node structure
  tests/data/acpi/virt: Add an empty expected file for PPTT
  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Generate PPTT table
  tests/data/acpi/virt: Update the empty expected file for PPTT

 hw/acpi/aml-build.c          |  89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c     |   8 +++-
 hw/arm/virt.c                |  71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h  |   3 ++
 include/hw/arm/virt.h        |   4 +-
 include/sysemu/device_tree.h |   1 +
 softmmu/device_tree.c        |  44 ++++++++++++++++-
 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT    | Bin 0 -> 76 bytes
 8 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT

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