On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 at 04:46, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Accurately injecting an ARM Processor error ACPI/APEI GHES
> error record requires the value of the ARM Multiprocessor
> Affinity Register (mpidr).
>
> While ARM implements it, this is currently not visible.
>
> Add a field at CPU storing it, and place it at arm_cpu_properties
> as experimental, thus allowing it to be queried via QMP using
> qom-get function.
> static Property arm_cpu_properties[] = {
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("midr", ARMCPU, midr, 0),
> + DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("x-mpidr", ARMCPU, mpidr, 0),
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("mp-affinity", ARMCPU,
> mp_affinity, ARM64_AFFINITY_INVALID),
> DEFINE_PROP_INT32("node-id", ARMCPU, node_id, CPU_UNSET_NUMA_NODE_ID),
Why do we need this? Why is it experimental? The later patch
seems to use it via QMP, which I'm not super enthusiastic
about -- the preexisting mpidr and mp-affinity properties are
there for code that is creating CPU objects to configure
the CPU object, not as a query interface for QOM.
thanks
-- PMM
