On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 06:57:07PM +0000, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 8. Oktober 2023 17:56:48 UTC schrieb Chuck Zmudzinski <brchu...@aol.com>:
> >On 10/7/23 8:38 AM, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> >> This series consolidates the implementations of the PIIX3 and PIIX4 south
> >> bridges and makes PIIX4 usable in the PC machine via an experimental 
> >> command
> >> line parameter. The motivation is to resolve duplicate code between the 
> >> device
> >> models as well as resolving the "Frankenstein" PIIX4-PM problem in PIIX3
> >> discussed on this list before.
> >> 
> >> The series is structured as follows:
> >> 
> >> Patches 1-8 are preparational patches necessary for moving all sub devices 
> >> into
> >> PIIX3, like was done for PIIX4. In isolation these patches can also be 
> >> seen as
> >> general x86 machine cleanup sub series which has merit in its own right -- 
> >> and
> >> could be applied to master if the remainder of the series takes longer to
> >> review.
> >> 
> >> Patches 9-13 move PIIX3 sub devices into one device model like already
> >> done for PIIX4. Together with the previous sub series these patches form a
> >> bigger sub series which also has merit in its own right, and could be 
> >> applied
> >> independent of the remainder of this series as well.
> >> 
> >> The remainder of this series consolidates the PIIX3 and PIIX4 device 
> >> models.
> >> The culmination point is the last commit which makes PIIX4 usable in the PC
> >> machine.
> >> 
> >> One challenge was dealing with optional devices where Peter already gave 
> >> advice
> >> in [1] which this series implements. Although PIIX4 is now usable in the PC
> >> machine it still has a different binary layout in its VM state.
> >> 
> >> Testing done:
> >> * `make check`
> >> * `qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -m 2G -accel kvm -cdrom
> >>      manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso`
> >> * `qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc,x-south-bridge=piix4-isa -m 2G -accel kvm 
> >> -cdrom
> >>      manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso`
> >> * `qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 2G -accel kvm -cdrom
> >>      manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso`
> >> * `qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -cpu 5KEc -m 1G -kernel kernel -initrd 
> >> initrd
> >>      -append "root=LABEL=rootfs console=ttyS0" -drive file=image.qcow2`
> >> * `qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -bios yamon-02.22.bin`
> >> * Run HVM domU guest under Xen with manjaro-kde-21.3.2-220704-linux515.iso 
> >> image
> >
> >I did some preliminary tests of this patch series on some Xen HVM domU 
> >guests I have
> >that use the xenfv / pc machine and depend on the current PIIX3 
> >implementation.
> >So far there are no regressions in my tests. I use libxl or libvirt to 
> >manage the
> >Xen guests.
> 
> Thanks, nice to read!
> 
> >
> >I have not (yet) tested the experimental option that makes PIIX4 useable in 
> >the xenfv / pc
> >machines. IIUC, that would require a patch to hvmloader/pci.c in Xen tools 
> >so Xen's
> >hvmloader recognizes the PIIX4 pci device id [1], and a patch to libxl so 
> >libxl can
> >optionally launch qemu with the new experimental option enabled.
> >
> >Since this patch series affects the xenfv machine, I added the Xen x86 
> >maintainers to
> >the Cc list and Jason Andryuk who is credited with discovering the necessary 
> >patch to
> >hvmloader/pci.c.
> 
> Good idea. In the next iteration, I'll cc the respective email addresses from 
> the MAINTAINERS file which hopefully reaches all relevant people.

there will be a next version then?

> Best regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> >
> >[1] 
> >https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/b0ff78f4-1193-495b-919c-84a1ff8ad...@gmail.com/
> >
> >> 
> >> v8:
> >> - Wire ISA interrupts before device realization
> >> - Optionally allow a PIC and PIT to be instantiated in PIIX3 for 
> >> compatiblity
> >>     with PIIX4
> >> - Touch ICH9 LPC as far as required for PIIX consolidation
> >> - Make PIIX4 usable in the PC machine via an experimental option
> >> - Review and rework history, touching every commit and drop R-b tags when
> >>     changes became too large
> >> 
> >> v7:
> >> - Rebase onto master
> >> - Avoid the PIC proxy (Phil)
> >>   The motivation for the PIC proxy was to allow for wiring up ISA 
> >> interrupts in
> >>   the south bridges. ISA interrupt wiring requires the GPIO lines to be
> >>   populated already but pc_piix assigned the interrupts only after 
> >> realizing
> >>   PIIX3. By shifting interrupt assignment before realizing, the ISA 
> >> interrupts
> >>   are already populated during PIIX3's realize phase where the ISA 
> >> interrupts
> >>   are wired up.
> >> - New patches:
> >>   * hw/isa/piix4: Reuse struct PIIXState from PIIX3
> >>   * hw/isa/piix4: Create the "intr" property during init() already
> >> - Patches with substantial changes (Reviewed-by dropped):
> >>   * hw/isa/piix3: Move ISA bus IRQ assignments into host device
> >> 
> >> v6:
> >> - Fix some comments about TYPE_ISA_PIC (Mark) ... and use it consistently
> >>   within the patch series.
> >> - Incorporate series "[PATCH v2 0/3] Decouple INTx-to-LNKx routing from 
> >> south
> >>   bridges" [2] for maintainer convenience.
> >> - Merge v5's 'hw/i386/pc_piix: Associate pci_map_irq_fn as soon as PCI bus 
> >> is
> >>   created' into
> >>   https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg03312.html . 
> >> Do
> >>   similar for Malta.
> >> - Rebase onto latest master (d6271b657286 "Merge tag 'for_upstream' of
> >>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu into staging")
> >> 
> >> v5:
> >> - Pick up Reviewed-by tags from 
> >> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-01/msg00116.html
> >> - Add patch to make usage of the isa_pic global more type-safe
> >> - Re-introduce isa-pic as PIC specific proxy (Mark)
> >> 
> >> v4:
> >> - Rebase onto "[PATCH v2 0/3] Decouple INTx-to-LNKx routing from south 
> >> bridges"
> >>   since it is already queued via mips-next. This eliminates patches
> >>   'hw/isa/piix3: Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix3_"' and 
> >> 'hw/isa/piix4:
> >>   Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix4_"'.
> >> - Squash 'hw/isa/piix: Drop the "3" from the PIIX base class' into
> >>   'hw/isa/piix3: Rename typedef PIIX3State to PIIXState'. I originally only
> >>   split these patches since I wasn't sure whether renaming a type was 
> >> allowed.
> >> - Add new patch 'hw/i386/pc_piix: Associate pci_map_irq_fn as soon as PCI 
> >> bus is
> >>   created' for forther cleanup of INTx-to-LNKx route decoupling.
> >> 
> >> v3:
> >> - Introduce one TYPE_ICH9_USB_UHCI(fn) rather than several 
> >> TYPE_ICH9_USB_UHCIx
> >>   (Philippe)
> >> - Make proxy PIC generic (Philippe)
> >> - Track Malta's PIIX dependencies through KConfig
> >> - Rebase onto Philippe's 'hw/isa/piix4: Remove MIPS Malta specific bits' 
> >> series [3]
> >> - Also rebase onto latest master to resolve merge conflicts. This required
> >>   copying Philippe's series as first three patches - please ignore.
> >> 
> >> v2:
> >> - Introduce TYPE_ defines for IDE and USB device models (Mark)
> >> - Omit unexporting of PIIXState (Mark)
> >> - Improve commit message of patch 5 to mention reset triggering through PCI
> >>   configuration space (Mark)
> >> - Move reviewed patches w/o dependencies to the bottom of the series for 
> >> early
> >>   upstreaming
> >> 
> >> [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-07/msg02348.html
> >> [2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg03310.html
> >> [3] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-10/msg05367.html
> >> 
> >> Bernhard Beschow (29):
> >>   hw/i386/pc: Merge two if statements into one
> >>   hw/i386/pc_piix: Allow for setting properties before realizing PIIX3
> >>     south bridge
> >>   hw/i386/pc_piix: Assign PIIX3's ISA interrupts before its realize()
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Resolve redundant PIIX_NUM_PIC_IRQS
> >>   hw/i386/pc_piix: Wire PIIX3's ISA interrupts by new "isa-irqs"
> >>     property
> >>   hw/i386/pc_piix: Remove redundant "piix3" variable
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Rename "pic" attribute to "isa_irqs_in"
> >>   hw/i386/pc_q35: Wire ICH9 LPC function's interrupts before its
> >>     realize()
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Wire PIC IRQs to ISA bus in host device
> >>   hw/i386/pc: Wire RTC ISA IRQs in south bridges
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Create IDE controller in host device
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Create USB controller in host device
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Create power management controller in host device
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Drop the "3" from PIIX base class name
> >>   hw/isa/piix4: Remove unused inbound ISA interrupt lines
> >>   hw/isa/piix4: Rename "isa" attribute to "isa_irqs_in"
> >>   hw/isa/piix4: Rename reset control operations to match PIIX3
> >>   hw/isa/piix4: Reuse struct PIIXState from PIIX3
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Merge hw/isa/piix4.c
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Allow for optional PIC creation in PIIX3
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Allow for optional PIT creation in PIIX3
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Harmonize names of reset control memory regions
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Share PIIX3's base class with PIIX4
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Reuse PIIX3 base class' realize method in PIIX4
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Rename functions to be shared for PCI interrupt
> >>     triggering
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Reuse PIIX3's PCI interrupt triggering in PIIX4
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Resolve duplicate code regarding PCI interrupt wiring
> >>   hw/isa/piix: Implement multi-process QEMU support also for PIIX4
> >>   hw/i386/pc_piix: Make PIIX4 south bridge usable in PC machine
> >> 
> >>  MAINTAINERS                          |   6 +-
> >>  docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc |   8 +
> >>  include/hw/i386/pc.h                 |   2 +
> >>  include/hw/southbridge/piix.h        |  28 ++-
> >>  hw/i386/pc.c                         |  13 +-
> >>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c                    | 125 ++++++++---
> >>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c                     |  14 +-
> >>  hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c                    |   9 +-
> >>  hw/isa/{piix3.c => piix.c}           | 281 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> >>  hw/isa/piix4.c                       | 302 ---------------------------
> >>  hw/mips/malta.c                      |   5 +-
> >>  hw/i386/Kconfig                      |   3 +-
> >>  hw/isa/Kconfig                       |   8 +-
> >>  hw/isa/meson.build                   |   3 +-
> >>  hw/mips/Kconfig                      |   2 +-
> >>  15 files changed, 358 insertions(+), 451 deletions(-)
> >>  rename hw/isa/{piix3.c => piix.c} (52%)
> >>  delete mode 100644 hw/isa/piix4.c
> >> 
> >


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