Re: [PATCH] cpu: Use DeviceClass reset instead of a special CPUClass reset

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 03.03.20 11:05, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The CPUClass has a 'reset' method.  This is a legacy from when
> TYPE_CPU used not to inherit from TYPE_DEVICE.  We don't need it any
> more, as we can simply use the TYPE_DEVICE reset.  The 'cpu_reset()'
> function is kept as the API which most places use to reset a CPU; it
> is now a wrapper which calls device_cold_reset() and then the
> tracepoint function.
> 
> This change should not cause CPU objects to be reset more often
> than they are at the moment, because:
>  * nobody is directly calling device_cold_reset() or
>    qdev_reset_all() on CPU objects
>  * no CPU object is on a qbus, so they will not be reset either
>    by somebody calling qbus_reset_all()/bus_cold_reset(), or
>    by the main "reset sysbus and everything in the qbus tree"
>    reset that most devices are reset by
> 
> Note that this does not change the need for each machine or whatever
> to use qemu_register_reset() to arrange to call cpu_reset() -- that
> is necessary because CPU objects are not on any qbus, so they don't
> get reset when the qbus tree rooted at the sysbus bus is reset, and
> this isn't being changed here.
> 
> All the changes to the files under target/ were made using the
> included Coccinelle script, except:
> 
> (1) the deletion of the now-inaccurate and not terribly useful
> "CPUClass::reset" comments was done with a perl one-liner afterwards:
>   perl -n -i -e '/ CPUClass::reset/ or print' target/*/*.c
> 
> (2) this bit of the s390 change was done by hand, because the
> Coccinelle script is not sophisticated enough to handle the
> parent_reset call being inside another function:
> 
> | @@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ static void s390_cpu_reset(CPUState *s, cpu_reset_type 
> type)
> |     S390CPU *cpu = S390_CPU(s);
> |     S390CPUClass *scc = S390_CPU_GET_CLASS(cpu);
> |     CPUS390XState *env = &cpu->env;
> |+    DeviceState *dev = DEVICE(s);
> |
> |-    scc->parent_reset(s);
> |+    scc->parent_reset(dev);
> |     cpu->env.sigp_order = 0;
> |     s390_cpu_set_state(S390_CPU_STATE_STOPPED, cpu);
> 

s390 parts look sane.