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Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V10 9/9] pvpanic : update pvpanic doc


From: Andrew Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V10 9/9] pvpanic : update pvpanic document
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:00:57 +0100
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:12:52PM +0800, Peng Hao wrote:
> Add mmio support info in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <address@hidden>
> ---
>  docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
> index c7bbacc..b1beea3 100644
> --- a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
> +++ b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
> @@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
>  PVPANIC DEVICE
>  ==============
>  
> -pvpanic device is a simulated ISA device, through which a guest panic
> -event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
> +pvpanic device is a simulated ISA/SYSBUS device, through which a guest

Why add the ISA/SYSBUS here? It's not really the best use of '/', IMO,
I'd just drop that as the ISA and SYSBUS is pointed out later.

> +panic event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
>  management apps (e.g. libvirt) to be notified and respond to the event.
>  
>  The management app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
>  and/or polling for guest-panicked RunState, to learn when the pvpanic
>  device has fired a panic event.
>  
> +The pvpanic device can be implemented as an ISA device (using IOPORT), 
> +or, since qemu 4.0, as a SYSBUS device (using MMIO).
> +
>  ISA Interface
>  -------------
>  
> @@ -19,6 +22,13 @@ Software should set only bits both itself and the device 
> recognize.
>  Currently, only bit 0 is recognized, setting it indicates a guest panic
>  has happened.
>  
> +SYSBUS Interface
> +----------------
> +
> +The SYSBUS interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses
> +MMIO. For example, the arm virt machine could put the pvpanic device at
> +[0x9070000, 0x9070001] and currently only the first byte is used.

instead of '] and currently'. I'd write '], where currently'

> +
>  ACPI Interface
>  --------------
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 

Otherwise 

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>



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