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Re: [PATCH 43/86] hppa: drop RAM size fixup


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH 43/86] hppa: drop RAM size fixup
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:14:32 +0100
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On 1/2/20 5:50 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 16:49:00 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:

On 1/2/20 4:08 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:17:14 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
On 1/2/20 3:12 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 13:06:33 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
On 1/2/20 12:31 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
On 31.12.19 16:44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
On 12/31/19 2:03 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
If user provided non-sense RAM size, board will complain and
continue running with max RAM size supported.
Also RAM is going to be allocated by generic code, so it won't be
possible for board to fix things up for user.

Make it error message and exit to force user fix CLI,
instead of accepting non-sense CLI values.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
---
      hw/hppa/machine.c | 3 ++-
      1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/hppa/machine.c b/hw/hppa/machine.c
index 5d0de26..25f5afc 100644
--- a/hw/hppa/machine.c
+++ b/hw/hppa/machine.c
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ static void machine_hppa_init(MachineState *machine)
            /* Limit main memory. */
          if (ram_size > FIRMWARE_START) {
-        machine->ram_size = ram_size = FIRMWARE_START;
+        error_report("RAM size more than %d is not supported", FIRMWARE_START);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

$ qemu-system-hppa -m 3841m
qemu-system-hppa: invalid accelerator kvm
qemu-system-hppa: falling back to tcg
qemu-system-hppa: RAM size more than -268435456 is not supported

Instead of using qemu_strtosz_MiB on FIRMWARE_START or unsigned format, we can simply use 
"RAM size more than 3840m is not supported". Is that OK with you?

I don't really like that change.

We currently only emulate a 32-bit system, and for those 4GB is the maximum.
So, if I start my machine with "qemu-system-hppa -m 4G", the current code
then automatically uses the maximum possible of 3841MB (which is limited by
firmware start address).
I don't expect users to know the excact 3841MB number.
Even on a phyiscal machine you can only add DIMMs of sizes 2GB, 3GB or 4GB,
but not "3841MB".

Thanks for the explanation. This deserves a comment in the source file
IMHO (and displaying a warning to the user that the behavior is changed).

I understand the CPU can't access this DRAM area because the ROM is
mapped there. What about other devices, can they do DMA access to it?

Igor: If this complicates your series too much, I think we can directly
allocate up-to 4GiB and not worry about the 256MiB lost.

Do you mean
s/"RAM size more than %d is not supported"/"RAM size more than 4Gb is not 
supported"/

Works for me! You can keep my R-b with this change, thanks.

Well, it's not that simple.
Do we map whole 4G in address space, if yes then we have to "unbreak"
firmware mapping and use overlap mapping or do we map only portion of it?
Both would make code more confusing and all for the sake of user convenience
so they won't have to change their CLI?

I was thinking about this patch:
it probably should be a bit more complicated.


-- >8 --
diff --git a/hw/hppa/machine.c b/hw/hppa/machine.c
index 5d0de26140..fa0b6a9536 100644
--- a/hw/hppa/machine.c
+++ b/hw/hppa/machine.c
@@ -91,15 +91,16 @@ static void machine_hppa_init(MachineState *machine)
       }

       /* Limit main memory. */
-    if (ram_size > FIRMWARE_START) {
-        machine->ram_size = ram_size = FIRMWARE_START;
+    if (ram_size > 4 * GiB) {
+        error_report("Can not model more than 4GB of RAM");
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
       }

       /* Main memory region. */
       ram_region = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
       memory_region_allocate_system_memory(ram_region, OBJECT(machine),
                                            "ram", ram_size);
-    memory_region_add_subregion(addr_space, 0, ram_region);
+    memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(addr_space, 0, ram_region, -1);

       /* Init Dino (PCI host bus chip).  */
       pci_bus = dino_init(addr_space, &rtc_irq, &serial_irq);

Ok, I give up on trying to convince you to avoid relaxing error check
but I'd make it an extra patch on top of "[PATCH 43/86] hppa: drop RAM size 
fixup"
as it's a separate change.

I am simply not understanding what you are suggesting...
Can you share a diff snippet of what you would prefer?




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