On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 14:38, Edgar E. Iglesias
<edgar.igles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 3:05 PM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 18:23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On 11/4/24 15:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 17:34, Damien Hedde <damien.he...@greensocs.com> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> This commit defines an interface allowing multi-phase reset. This aims
> > > >> to solve a problem of the actual single-phase reset (built in
> > > >> DeviceClass and BusClass): reset behavior is dependent on the order
> > > >> in which reset handlers are called. In particular doing external
> > > >> side-effect (like setting an qemu_irq) is problematic because receiving
> > > >> object may not be reset yet.
> > > >
> > > > So, I wanted to drag up this ancient patch to ask a couple
> > > > of Resettable questions, because I'm working on adding a
> > > > new ResetType (the equivalent of SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_SNAPSHOT_LOAD).
> > > >
> > > >> +/**
> > > >> + * ResetType:
> > > >> + * Types of reset.
> > > >> + *
> > > >> + * + Cold: reset resulting from a power cycle of the object.
> > > >> + *
> > > >> + * TODO: Support has to be added to handle more types. In particular,
> > > >> + * ResetState structure needs to be expanded.
> > > >> + */
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody remember what this TODO comment is about? What
> > > > in particular would need to be in the ResetState struct
> > > > to allow another type to be added?
> > >
> > > IIRC this comes from this discussion:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/7c193b33-8188-2cda-cbf2-fb5452544...@greensocs.com/
> > > Updated in this patch (see after '---' description):
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20191018150630.31099-9-damien.he...@greensocs.com/
> >
> > Hmm, I can't see anything in there that mentions this
> > TODO or what we'd need more ResetState fields to handle.
> > I guess I'll go ahead with adding my new ResetType and ignore
> > this TODO, because I can't see any reason why we need to
> > do anything in particular for a new ResetType...
> >
> > > >
> > > >> +typedef enum ResetType {
> > > >> +    RESET_TYPE_COLD,
> > > >> +} ResetType;
> > > >
> > > >> +typedef void (*ResettableInitPhase)(Object *obj, ResetType type);
> > > >> +typedef void (*ResettableHoldPhase)(Object *obj);
> > > >> +typedef void (*ResettableExitPhase)(Object *obj);
> > > >
> > > > Was there a reason why we only pass the ResetType to the init
> > > > phase method, and not also to the hold and exit phases ?
> > > > Given that many devices don't need to implement init, it
> > > > seems awkward to require them to do so just to stash the
> > > > ResetType somewhere so they can look at it in the hold
> > > > or exit phase, so I was thinking about adding the argument
> > > > to the other two phase methods.
> > >
> > > You are right, the type should be propagated to to all phase
> > > handlers.
> >
> > I have some patches which do this; I'll probably send them out
> > in a series next week once I've figured out whether they fit
> > better in with other patches that give the motivation.

> I don't remember the details on your first questions but I also agree
> with adding the type to the other callbacks!

I've now posted the series that adds the type the the hold
and exit callbacks, and adds a new RESET_TYPE_SNAPSHOT_LOAD:

https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240412160809.1260625-1-peter.mayd...@linaro.org/

thanks
-- PMM

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