Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v5 2/3] spapr: introduce a IRQ controller backend to the machine

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:04:17AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> [ ... ] 
> 
> >> +static void spapr_irq_init_xics(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, Error **errp)
> >> +{
> >> +    MachineState *machine = MACHINE(spapr);
> >> +    sPAPRMachineClass *smc = SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(spapr);
> >> +    int nr_irqs = smc->irq->nr_irqs;
> >> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
> >> +
> >> +    /* Initialize the MSI IRQ allocator. */
> >> +    if (!SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(spapr)->legacy_irq_allocation) {
> >> +        spapr_irq_msi_init(spapr, XICS_IRQ_BASE + nr_irqs - 
> >> SPAPR_IRQ_MSI);
> >> +    }
> > 
> > I think this belongs in common code, rather than xics specific.
> 
> yes.
>  
> >> +
> >> +    if (kvm_enabled()) {
> >> +        if (machine_kernel_irqchip_allowed(machine) &&
> >> +            !xics_kvm_init(spapr, &local_err)) {
> >> +            spapr->icp_type = TYPE_KVM_ICP;
> >> +            spapr->ics = spapr_ics_create(spapr, TYPE_ICS_KVM, nr_irqs,
> >> +                                          &local_err);
> >> +        }
> >> +        if (machine_kernel_irqchip_required(machine) && !spapr->ics) {
> >> +            error_prepend(&local_err,
> >> +                          "kernel_irqchip requested but unavailable: ");
> >> +            goto error;
> >> +        }
> >> +        error_free(local_err);
> >> +        local_err = NULL;
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >> +    if (!spapr->ics) {
> > 
> > When could this get called with spapr->ics already initialized?
> 
> if the code above succeeds when running with the KVM accel. 
> 
> What are thinking about ? introducing a xics-kvm backend ?

Duh, sorry, no I just wasnt reading the earlier code clearly enough.

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