Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] spapr: Add NVDIMM device support

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 02:49:14AM -0600, Shivaprasad G Bhat wrote:
> Add support for NVDIMM devices for sPAPR. Piggyback on existing nvdimm
> device interface in QEMU to support virtual NVDIMM devices for Power.
> Create the required DT entries for the device (some entries have
> dummy values right now).
> 
> The patch creates the required DT node and sends a hotplug
> interrupt to the guest. Guest is expected to undertake the normal
> DR resource add path in response and start issuing PAPR SCM hcalls.
> 
> The device support is verified based on the machine version unlike x86.
> 
> This is how it can be used ..
> Ex :
> For coldplug, the device to be added in qemu command line as shown below
> -object 
> memory-backend-file,id=memnvdimm0,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/tmp/nvdimm0,share=yes,size=1073872896
> -device 
> nvdimm,label-size=128k,uuid=75a3cdd7-6a2f-4791-8d15-fe0a920e8e9e,memdev=memnvdimm0,id=nvdimm0,slot=0
> 
> For hotplug, the device to be added from monitor as below
> object_add 
> memory-backend-file,id=memnvdimm0,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/tmp/nvdimm0,share=yes,size=1073872896
> device_add 
> nvdimm,label-size=128k,uuid=75a3cdd7-6a2f-4791-8d15-fe0a920e8e9e,memdev=memnvdimm0,id=nvdimm0,slot=0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
>                [Early implementation]
> ---
>  default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak |    1 
>  hw/mem/Kconfig                    |    2 
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c                    |  216 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c                |   18 +++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_events.c             |    4 +
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h            |   11 ++
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.h        |    9 ++
>  7 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak 
> b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> index cca52665d9..ae0841fa3a 100644
> --- a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> +++ b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> @@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ CONFIG_POWERNV=y
>  
>  # For pSeries
>  CONFIG_PSERIES=y
> +CONFIG_NVDIMM=y
> diff --git a/hw/mem/Kconfig b/hw/mem/Kconfig
> index 620fd4cb59..2ad052a536 100644
> --- a/hw/mem/Kconfig
> +++ b/hw/mem/Kconfig
> @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ config MEM_DEVICE
>  config NVDIMM
>      bool
>      default y
> -    depends on PC
> +    depends on (PC || PSERIES)
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 3ae7db1563..921d8d7c8e 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@
>  #include "hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.h"
>  #include "hw/mem/memory-device.h"
>  #include "hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.h"
> +#include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
> +#include "qemu/nvdimm-utils.h"
>  
>  #include "monitor/monitor.h"
>  
> @@ -685,12 +687,22 @@ static int spapr_populate_drmem_v2(SpaprMachineState 
> *spapr, void *fdt,
>              nr_entries++;
>          }
>  
> -        /* Entry for DIMM */
> -        drc = spapr_drc_by_id(TYPE_SPAPR_DRC_LMB, addr / lmb_size);
> -        g_assert(drc);
> -        elem = spapr_get_drconf_cell(size / lmb_size, addr,
> -                                     spapr_drc_index(drc), node,
> -                                     SPAPR_LMB_FLAGS_ASSIGNED);
> +        if (info->value->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_INFO_KIND_DIMM) {
> +            /* Entry for DIMM */
> +            drc = spapr_drc_by_id(TYPE_SPAPR_DRC_LMB, addr / lmb_size);
> +            g_assert(drc);
> +            elem = spapr_get_drconf_cell(size / lmb_size, addr,
> +                                         spapr_drc_index(drc), node,
> +                                         SPAPR_LMB_FLAGS_ASSIGNED);
> +        } else if (info->value->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_INFO_KIND_NVDIMM) {
> +            /*
> +             * NVDIMM sits here, let the DIMM LMBs be unusable here in the
> +             * whole range
> +             */
> +            elem = spapr_get_drconf_cell(size / lmb_size, addr, 0, -1,
> +                                         SPAPR_LMB_FLAGS_RESERVED |
> +                                         SPAPR_LMB_FLAGS_DRC_INVALID);
> +        }

As discussed in reply to an earlier thread, this whole scheme
basically breaks down in the presence of hotplug - it relies on which
GPAs are DIMMs and which are NVDIMMs not changing.

Other than that significant problem, the rest of this looks
reasonable.

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