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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/7] hw/i386/pc_q35: advertise broadcast SMI


From: Laszlo Ersek
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/7] hw/i386/pc_q35: advertise broadcast SMI if VCPU hotplug is turned off
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:42:58 +0100
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On 12/01/16 20:13, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:24PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> For the time being, we cannot handle SMIs in OVMF if VCPUs can show up
>> after boot. Otherwise, advertise ICH9_LPC_SMI_F_BROADCAST.
>>
>> Implement this generally, by introducing a new PCMachineClass method,
>> namely get_smi_host_features(), and implement the above logic for
>> pc-q35-2.9 and later. The idea is that future machine types might want to
>> calculate (the same or different) SMI host features from different
>> information, and that shouldn't affect earlier machine types.
>>
>> In turn, validating guest feature requests (inter-feature dependencies)
>> should be possible purely based on the available host feature set. For
>> example, in the future we might enforce that the guest select
>> ICH9_LPC_SMI_F_VCPU_PARKING as a prerequisite for
>> ICH9_LPC_SMI_F_BROADCAST, but only if the machine type itself advertises
>> ICH9_LPC_SMI_F_VCPU_PARKING.
>>
>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  include/hw/i386/pc.h |  1 +
>>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c     | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
>> index 430735e501dd..e164947116b6 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
>> @@ -116,10 +116,11 @@ struct PCMachineClass {
>>      /*< public >*/
>>  
>>      /* Methods: */
>>      HotplugHandler *(*get_hotplug_handler)(MachineState *machine,
>>                                             DeviceState *dev);
>> +    uint64_t (*get_smi_host_features)(void);
> 
> I'd prefer to encode the differences between machine-types as
> data, instead of code, to make introspection easier in the
> future. Is it possible to encode this in a simple PCMachineClass
> struct data field or (even bettter) a QOM property?
> 

I don't know how else to capture the (smp_cpus == max_cpus) question,
for saying that "this machine type supports SMI broadcast, as long as
VCPU hotplug is disabled in the configuration".

Technically we could give PCMC two new (data) fields, a host features
bitmap for when VCPU hotplug is enabled, and another for when VCPU
hotplug is disabled. Then board code would take the right field and pass
it on to ich9_lpc_pm_init().

Thanks
Laszlo



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