[libvirt] [PATCH] cpu-driver: Fix the cross driver function call

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Dec 2 14:08:40 UTC 2014


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:08:21AM +0100, Daniel Hansel wrote:
> For Intel and PowerPC the implementation is calling a cpu driver
> function across driver layers (i.e. from qemu driver directly to cpu
> driver).
> The correct behavior is to use libvirt API functionality to perform such
> a inter-driver call.
> 
> This patch introduces a new cpu driver API function getModels() to
> retrieve the cpu models. The currect implementation to process the
> cpu_map XML content is transferred to the INTEL and PowerPC cpu driver
> specific API functions.
> Additionally processing the cpu_map XML file is not safe due to the fact
> that the cpu map does not exist for all architectures. Therefore it is
> better to encapsulate the processing in the architecture specific cpu
> drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  src/cpu/cpu.c         | 68 +++++++++------------------------------------------
>  src/cpu/cpu.h         |  4 +++
>  src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_x86.c     | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

ACK


Regards,
Daniel
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