[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] ARM: add query-gic-capabilities SMP command
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Mar 23 10:32:06 UTC 2016
Hi Peter,
Stupid question: The subject says "SMP command". Did you mean "QMP
command" ?
Thanks,
-Christoffer
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:32:29PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> v6 changes:
> - patch 1 (squashed into patch 2)
> - explain more about the following in commit message: why we need
> this command, and what does the entries mean [Markus]
> - explain what GIC is [Eric]
> - squash this patch into patch 2 [Eric]
> - patch 2 (new patch 1)
> - fix "does not implement" english error [Eric]
> - remove useless headers in target-arm/monitor.c [Markus]
> - remove this command from whitelist [Markus, Eric]
> - return dict rather than array, with single key points to the
> original array results [Markus, Eric]
> - patch 5 (new patch 4)
> - tiny change in implementation to suite the new interface.
>
> v5 changes:
> - patch 2: moved to target-arm/monitor.c (from target-arm/machine.c)
> [Peter]
> - patch 3: splitted into three patches: [all from Peter's comments]
> - patch 3 (new): leverage kvm_arm_create_scratch_host_vcpu(), tiny
> enhancement of old one to suite our need
> - patch 4: introduce kvm_support_device() in kvm-all.c
> - patch 5: do the implementation.
>
> v4 changes:
> - all: rename query-gic-capability to query-gic-capabilities [Andrea]
> - patch 3: rename helper function to kvm_support_device, make it
> inline and lighter. [Drew]
>
> v3 changes:
> - patch 2: remove func declaration, add qmp header [Drew]
> - patch 3: being able to detect KVM GIC capabilities even without
> kvm enabled [Andrea]: this is a little bit hacky, need some more
> review on this.
>
> v2 changes:
> - result layout change: use array and dict for the capability bits
> rather than a single array of strings [Andrea/Markus]
> - spelling out what GIC is in doc [Eric]
>
> This patch is to add ARM-specific command "query-gic-capability".
>
> The new command can report which kind of GIC device the host/QEMU
> support. The returned result is in the form of array.
>
> Sample command and output:
>
> {"execute": "query-gic-capability"}
> {"return": [{"emulated": false, "version": 3, "kernel": false},
> {"emulated": true, "version": 2, "kernel": true}]}
>
> Testing:
>
> Smoke tests on both x86 (emulated) and another moonshot ARM server.
>
> Peter Xu (4):
> arm: qmp: add query-gic-capabilities interface
> arm: enhance kvm_arm_create_scratch_host_vcpu
> kvm: add kvm_support_device() helper function
> arm: implement query-gic-capabilities
>
> include/sysemu/kvm.h | 9 +++++
> kvm-all.c | 15 +++++++++
> monitor.c | 8 +++++
> qapi-schema.json | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> qmp-commands.hx | 28 ++++++++++++++++
> target-arm/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
> target-arm/kvm.c | 10 +++++-
> target-arm/kvm_arm.h | 6 ++--
> target-arm/monitor.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 9 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 target-arm/monitor.c
>
> --
> 2.4.3
>
>
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