Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 00/12] target-i386: Fix APIC-ID-based topology (v4)

[Eduardo Habkost]

Adding address@hidden, Gleb, Michael, Marcelo to Cc, as I forgot to disable
suppress-cc when sending the patches.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 06:59:26PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> I am hoping to get this bug fixed in 1.4. I didn't get much feedback on the 
> RFC
> I sent last week, though.
> 
> Igor argued that APIC ID should be set by the board and not by the CPU itself,
> but I am not doing that because:
>  - I want to keep the bug fix simple and isolated as we are past soft freeze
>  - I believe the creator of the CPU object shouldn't be forced to provide the
>    APIC ID, so the APIC ID is not unnecessarily exposed on the CPU hotplug
>    device_add interface in the future
>  - The APIC ID _is_ set by the CPU itself (because each CPU package may have
>    multiple core/threads, and each core/thread has a different APIC ID). What
>    needs to be provided by the board to the CPU package in the future is the
>    package ID and the bit width of the core/thread IDs.
> 
> Git tree for reference:
>   git://github.com/ehabkost/qemu-hacks.git apicid-topology.v5
>   https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu-hacks/tree/apicid-topology.v5
> 
> Eduardo Habkost (12):
>   kvm: Add fake KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT for builds withou
>     KVM
>   target-i386: Don't set any KVM flag by default if KVM is disabled
>   pc: Reverse pc_init_pci() compatibility logic
>   kvm: Create kvm_arch_vcpu_id() function
>   target-i386: kvm: Set vcpu_id to APIC ID instead of CPU index
>   fw_cfg: Remove FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS from fw_cfg_init()
>   target-i386/cpu: Introduce apic_id_for_cpu() function
>   cpus.h: Make constant smp_cores/smp_threads available on *-user
>   pc: Set fw_cfg data based on APIC ID calculation
>   tests: Support target-specific unit tests
>   target-i386: Topology & APIC ID utility functions
>   pc: Generate APIC IDs according to CPU topology
> 
>  hw/fw_cfg.c            |   1 -
>  hw/pc.c                |  44 +++++++++++++---
>  hw/pc_piix.c           |  26 +++++++---
>  hw/ppc_newworld.c      |   1 +
>  hw/ppc_oldworld.c      |   1 +
>  hw/sun4m.c             |   3 ++
>  hw/sun4u.c             |   1 +
>  include/sysemu/cpus.h  |   7 +++
>  include/sysemu/kvm.h   |   4 ++
>  kvm-all.c              |   2 +-
>  target-i386/cpu.c      |  52 +++++++++++++++----
>  target-i386/cpu.h      |   5 +-
>  target-i386/kvm.c      |   6 +++
>  target-i386/topology.h | 133 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  target-ppc/kvm.c       |   5 ++
>  target-s390x/kvm.c     |   5 ++
>  tests/.gitignore       |   1 +
>  tests/Makefile         |  21 +++++++-
>  tests/test-x86-cpuid.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  19 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 target-i386/topology.h
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-x86-cpuid.c
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
> 

-- 
Eduardo