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Re: [PATCH 0/4] spapr: Get rid of CAS reboot flag


From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] spapr: Get rid of CAS reboot flag
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:29:01 +1100
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On 31/03/2020 18:08, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:59:01 +1100
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 31/03/2020 11:44, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:25:24PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
>>>> The CAS reboot flag was introduced in QEMU 2.10 to allow the guest
>>>> to be presented a new boot-time device tree after CAS negotiation.
>>>> CAS-generated resets rely on qemu_system_reset_request() which has
>>>> the particularity of dropping the main loop lock at some point. This
>>>> opens a window where migration can happen, hence promotting the CAS
>>>> reboot flag to actual state that we should also migrate. In practice,
>>>> this can't happen anymore since we have eliminated the scenario of
>>>> the XICS/XIVE switch and the much less frequent scenario of device
>>>> plug/unplug before CAS.
>>>>
>>>> We still have much of the CAS reboot bits around though. The full FDT
>>>> rendering we do at CAS is enough to get rid of them once and far all.
>>>>
>>>> Some preliminary cleanup is made before going for the full removal,
>>>> for easier reviewing. At some point I had the need to move some code
>>>> around in CAS, and Alexey's patch from the "spapr: kill SLOF" (v8)
>>>> series proved to be helpful so I've reused it in this patchset.
>>>>
>>>> This series applies cleanly on both ppc-for-5.0 and ppc-for-5.1.
>>>> Since it doesn't fix any actual bug, I think this can be delayed
>>>> to 5.1.
>>>
>>> Applied to ppc-for-5.1.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you push it out please? The existing ppc-for-5.1 corrupts stack on
>> my machine in qemu_init().
>>
> 
> Can you provide more details ?

This one:
6d15081ee3ca (HEAD, dwg/ppc-for-5.1) 4 hours ago Nicholas Piggin
ppc/pnv: Add support for NMI interface

removed {} in:


diff --git a/hw/ppc/pnv.c b/hw/ppc/pnv.c
index 671535ebe6a6..ac83b8698b8e 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/pnv.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/pnv.c
@@ -2067,6 +2067,7 @@ static const TypeInfo types[] = {
         .interfaces = (InterfaceInfo[]) {
             { TYPE_INTERRUPT_STATS_PROVIDER },
             { TYPE_NMI },
+            { },
         },


David fixed that up, pushed out (forced, as usual), all good, sorry for
the noise :) Cheers.


-- 
Alexey



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