Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/33] Add function to control reset with gpio inputs

[Damien Hedde]

On 8/9/19 7:51 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:37:51AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 07:33, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Damien Hedde wrote:
>>>> It adds the possibility to add 2 gpios to control the warm and cold reset.
>>>> With theses ios, the reset can be maintained during some time.
>>>> Each io is associated with a state to detect level changes.
>>>>
>>>> Vmstate subsections are also added to the existsing device_reset
>>>> subsection.
>>>
>>> This doesn't seem like a thing that should be present on every single
>>> DeviceState.
>>
>> It's a facility that's going to be useful to multiple different
>> subclasses of DeviceState, so it seems to me cleaner to
>> have base class support for the common feature rather than
>> to reimplement it entirely from scratch in every subclass
>> that wants it.
> 
> Hm, I suppose so.  Would it really have to be from scratch, though?
> Couldn't some suitable helper functions make adding such GPIOs to a
> device pretty straightforward?
> 

This patch does that. A device does have to use the helper to add the
gpio. Either qdev_init_warm_reset_gpio(...) or
qdev_init_cold_reset_gpio(...) , like any another gpio.

The mechanics to control the reset with gpio change is done in the base
class and there is some state pre-allocated (and associated vmstate
description) to it.

If that's a problem I can only provide helpers and let devices handle
state allocation and vmstate addition.

Damien