On 23.04.2018 05:28, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 02:34:55PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Let's allow to query the MemoryHotplugState from the machine. >> >> This allows us to generically detect if a certain machine has support >> for memory devices, and to generically manage it (find free address >> range, plug/unplug a memory region). >> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> > > So, we're creating a hook where it seems very likely that the only > implementationss will be simply to retrieve the right field from the > machine specific structure. > > So.. should we instead just move the hotplug_memory structure to the > based MachineState type?
It allows us in patch nr. 3 to report different error messages. "Not supported" vs. "Not enabled (maxmem)". We could also handle that via a simple boolean flag inside of the struct. What do you think? -- Thanks, David / dhildenb