Re: [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 1/4] spapr_pci: Delegate placement of PCI host bridges to machine type

[Laurent Vivier]

On 06/10/2016 05:03, David Gibson wrote:
> The 'spapr-pci-host-bridge' represents the virtual PCI host bridge (PHB)
> for a PAPR guest.  Unlike on x86, it's routine on Power (both bare metal
> and PAPR guests) to have numerous independent PHBs, each controlling a
> separate PCI domain.
> 
> There are two ways of configuring the spapr-pci-host-bridge device: first
> it can be done fully manually, specifying the locations and sizes of all
> the IO windows.  This gives the most control, but is very awkward with 6
> mandatory parameters.  Alternatively just an "index" can be specified
> which essentially selects from an array of predefined PHB locations.
> The PHB at index 0 is automatically created as the default PHB.
> 
> The current set of default locations causes some problems for guests with
> large RAM (> 1 TiB) or PCI devices with very large BARs (e.g. big nVidia
> GPGPU cards via VFIO).  Obviously, for migration we can only change the
> locations on a new machine type, however.
> 
> This is awkward, because the placement is currently decided within the
> spapr-pci-host-bridge code, so it breaks abstraction to look inside the
> machine type version.
> 
> So, this patch delegates the "default mode" PHB placement from the
> spapr-pci-host-bridge device back to the machine type via a public method
> in sPAPRMachineClass.  It's still a bit ugly, but it's about the best we
> can do.
> 
> For now, this just changes where the calculation is done.  It doesn't
> change the actual location of the host bridges, or any other behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c              | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c          | 22 ++++++++--------------
>  include/hw/pci-host/spapr.h | 11 +----------
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h      |  4 ++++
>  4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 03e3803..f6e9c2a 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -2370,6 +2370,39 @@ static HotpluggableCPUList 
> *spapr_query_hotpluggable_cpus(MachineState *machine)
>      return head;
>  }
>  
> +static void spapr_phb_placement(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, uint32_t index,
> +                                uint64_t *buid, hwaddr *pio, hwaddr 
> *pio_size,
> +                                hwaddr *mmio, hwaddr *mmio_size,
> +                                unsigned n_dma, uint32_t *liobns, Error 
> **errp)
> +{
> +    const uint64_t base_buid = 0x800000020000000ULL;
> +    const hwaddr phb0_base = 0x10000000000ULL; /* 1 TiB */
> +    const hwaddr phb_spacing = 0x1000000000ULL; /* 64 GiB */
> +    const hwaddr mmio_offset = 0xa0000000; /* 2 GiB + 512 MiB */
> +    const hwaddr pio_offset = 0x80000000; /* 2 GiB */
> +    const uint32_t max_index = 255;

Why do you use new "const" instead of already defined "#define" from
spapr.h?

Thanks,
Laurent