[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Add cpu driver for powerpc host

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 12:12:46AM +0530, Prerna Saxena wrote:
> This part of code primarily compares host and guest CPUs of a given
> architecture for feature compatibility. x86 makes this choice based on
> CPUID comparison.
> Presently the PowerPC code has stubs to just get a 'pseries' guest to
> boot. It would be augmented going forward, to do a detailed feature
> comparison between guest and host CPUs on powerpc.
> This part of code is presently well-classified into different
> architectures, and consequently does not need reorganizing.
> 
> ---
>  src/Makefile.am       |    3 +-
>  src/cpu/cpu.c         |    2 +
>  src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.h |   32 +++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.h

The idea here looks fine.

> diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c b/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6ceedc3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c
> +
> +#define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_CPU
> +
> +static const char *archs[] = { "ppc64" };

How about 'ppc' too ?

> +static union cpuData *
> +PowerPCNodeData(void)
> +{
> +    union cpuData *data;
> +
> +    if (VIR_ALLOC(data) < 0) {
> +        virReportOOMError();
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
> +
> +    return data;
> +}
> +
> +
> +static int
> +PowerPCDecode(virCPUDefPtr cpu,
> +              const union cpuData *data,
> +              const char **models,
> +              unsigned int nmodels,
> +              const char *preferred)

Need to annotate these with 'ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED' to avoid compiler
warnings.

> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int

Should be 'void'

> +PowerPCDataFree(union cpuData *data)
> +{
> +   if (data == NULL)
> +       return 0;
> +
> +   VIR_FREE(data);
> +}
> +
> +struct cpuArchDriver cpuDriverPowerPC = {
> +    .name = "ppc64",
> +    .arch = archs,
> +    .narch = ARRAY_CARDINALITY(archs),
> +    .compare    = NULL,
> +    .decode     = PowerPCDecode,
> +    .encode     = NULL,
> +    .free       = PowerPCDataFree,
> +    .nodeData   = PowerPCNodeData,
> +    .guestData  = NULL,
> +    .baseline   = NULL,
> +    .update     = NULL,
> +    .hasFeature = NULL,
> +};

Should we have another copy for 'ppc' arch too ?


Daniel
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