Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv5 2/4] pseries: Move CPU compatibility property to machine

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri,  2 Jun 2017 13:15:05 +1000
> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Server class POWER CPUs have a "compat" property, which is used to set the
> > backwards compatibility mode for the processor.  However, this only makes
> > sense for machine types which don't give the guest access to hypervisor
> > privilege - otherwise the compatibility level is under the guest's control.
> > 
> > To reflect this, this removes the CPU 'compat' property and instead
> > creates a 'max-cpu-compat' property on the pseries machine.  Strictly
> > speaking this breaks compatibility, but AFAIK the 'compat' option was
> > never (directly) used with -device or device_add.
> > 
> > The option was used with -cpu.  So, to maintain compatibility, this
> > patch adds a hack to the cpu option parsing to strip out any compat
> > options supplied with -cpu and set them on the machine property
> > instead of the now deprecated cpu property.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> > ---
> 
> Just one trivial style nit in ppc_compat_prop_set().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> 
> and
> 
> Tested-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

Thanks.

[snip]

> > +static void ppc_compat_prop_set(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
> > +                                void *opaque, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    Error *error = NULL;
> 
> s/error/local_error maybe ? For consistency with ppc_compat_add_property() 
> below.

Yeah, makes sense.  local_err does seem to be by far the more common
name for this idiom.


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