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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 0/7] BROKEN, SORRY: Better handling of machine s
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David Gibson |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 0/7] BROKEN, SORRY: Better handling of machine specific per-cpu information |
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Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:52:07 +1000 |
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:04:39AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> It's moderately common for a machine type to need to keep track of
> information that is specific to the platform it implements, but
> per-cpu.
>
> While it could keep such information inside the MachineState, this
> makes lookup from the CPUState awkward. So, this series adds a
> standard way to stash machine-specific per-cpu information using a
> void pointer in the PowerPCCPU object. The machine is responsible for
> alloc()ing, free()ing and (if applicable) migrating this state.
>
> The meat of the series is the last two patches. The first 5 clean up
> a number of minor uglies I encountered while implementing.
Oops, realized 7/7 is totally broken on a KVM build. I'll send a new
spin.
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- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 0/7] Better handling of machine specific per-cpu information, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 1/7] spapr: Clean up cpu realize/unrealize paths, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 3/7] pnv_core: Allocate cpu thread objects individually, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 2/7] pnv: Fix some error handling cpu realize(), David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 4/7] pnv: Clean up cpu realize path, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 5/7] pnv: Add cpu unrealize path, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 7/7] target/ppc, spapr: Move VPA information to machine_data, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 6/7] target/ppc: Replace intc pointer with a general machine_data pointer, David Gibson, 2018/06/13
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv2 0/7] BROKEN, SORRY: Better handling of machine specific per-cpu information,
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