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Re: Discussion: Patch series that adds disable-tcg option for ppc target
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David Gibson |
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Re: Discussion: Patch series that adds disable-tcg option for ppc targets |
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Tue, 6 Apr 2021 16:11:30 +1000 |
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 01:32:18PM +0000, Bruno Piazera Larsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The team I'm working on started to work on adding support for
> building the ppc target with the disable-tcg option. However, we're
> not quite sure on where to start with such a big patch.
>
> * Should we focus first on changing the .c files, so that it
> will build when we finally patch the meson.build everything
> build correctly? Or should we start by changing the meson
> file, so that everyone agrees that the excluded files can
> indeed be excluded?
It's usually best to focus on logical changes, rather than
file-by-file. That said, I'd probably suggest changing the .c files
first, then changing the meson file.
> * Should we first finish the whole series to then mail it, or
> should we send one file at a time, as soon as we have them
> ready?
I'd lean towards building a whole series, since I think the individual
file changes won't make a lot of sense on their own. That said, it's
ok and encouraged to post a relatively early draft of the series as an
RFC, so that the overall idea can be reviewed, even if it has obvious
omissions (just mention them in the cover letter).
> So far we're thinking we'll need to:
> * change 6 files (arch_dump.c, machine.c, mmu-hash32.c,
> mmu-hash64.c, mmu-radix64.c and meson.build);
I'd expect mmu-*.c to be excluded. Those are softmmu implementations
which shouldn't be used with KVM. It's possible there are a few
helpers that will need to be extracted, though.
You'll probably also need changes in hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c and maybe
some other parts of the spapr code: there are a number of hypercalls
that we implement in qemu for TCG, but which are (and must be)
implemented in KVM when KVM is in use. So, I expect you'll need to
suppress compilation of h_enter, h_remove, h_protect, h_read and
h_bulk_remove at least in the !TCG case.
> * exclude 8 files from the build (dfp_helper.c, excp_helper.c,
> fpu_helper.c, int_helper.c, mem_helper.c, misc_helper.c, *
> translate.c, timebase_helper.c);
That looks about right.
> * create a new one that holds stubs.
Sounds reasonable.
> Does this sound about right? This is mostly guesswork based on how
> x86, s390x and ARM are doing it.
Sounds fine so far.
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