Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> writes:
> On 6/30/20 5:44 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
>>> Sent: 30 June 2020 16:26
>>> To: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org;
>>> qemu-de...@nongnu.org
>>> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>; Michael S. Tsirkin
>>> <m...@redhat.com>; Paul Durrant
>>> <pdurr...@amazon.com>; Jason Andryuk <jandr...@gmail.com>; Paolo Bonzini
>>> <pbonz...@redhat.com>;
>>> Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: cleanup unrealized flash devices
>>>
>>> On 6/24/20 2:18 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>> From: Paul Durrant <pdurr...@amazon.com>
>>>>
>>>> The generic pc_machine_initfn() calls pc_system_flash_create() which
>>>> creates
>>>> 'system.flash0' and 'system.flash1' devices. These devices are then
>>>> realized
>>>> by pc_system_flash_map() which is called from pc_system_firmware_init()
>>>> which
>>>> itself is called via pc_memory_init(). The latter however is not called
>>>> when
>>>> xen_enable() is true and hence the following assertion fails:
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-i386: hw/core/qdev.c:439: qdev_assert_realized_properly:
>>>> Assertion `dev->realized' failed
>>>>
>>>> These flash devices are unneeded when using Xen so this patch avoids the
>>>> assertion by simply removing them using pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused().
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Jason Andryuk <jandr...@gmail.com>
>>>> Fixes: ebc29e1beab0 ("pc: Support firmware configuration with -blockdev")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurr...@amazon.com>
>>>> Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jandr...@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>
>>>> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 9 ++++++---
>>>> hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c | 2 +-
>>>> include/hw/i386/pc.h | 1 +
>>>> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
>>>> index 1497d0e4ae..977d40afb8 100644
>>>> --- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
>>>> +++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
>>>> @@ -186,9 +186,12 @@ static void pc_init1(MachineState *machine,
>>>> if (!xen_enabled()) {
>>>> pc_memory_init(pcms, system_memory,
>>>> rom_memory, &ram_memory);
>>>> - } else if (machine->kernel_filename != NULL) {
>>>> - /* For xen HVM direct kernel boot, load linux here */
>>>> - xen_load_linux(pcms);
>>>> + } else {
>>>> + pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused(pcms);
>>>
>>> TIL pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused().
>>>
>>> What about restricting at the source?
>>>
>>
>> And leave the devices in place? They are not relevant for Xen, so why not
>> clean up?
>
> No, I meant to not create them in the first place, instead of
> create+destroy.
Better. Opinion, not demand :)
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