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Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] Introduce the microvm machine type


From: Sergio Lopez
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] Introduce the microvm machine type
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:15:06 +0200
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Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Sergio Lopez wrote:
>> Microvm is a machine type inspired by Firecracker and constructed
>> after the its machine model.
>> 
>> It's a minimalist machine type without PCI nor ACPI support, designed
>> for short-lived guests. Microvm also establishes a baseline for
>> benchmarking and optimizing both QEMU and guest operating systems,
>> since it is optimized for both boot time and footprint.
>
> Looks good overall. I think coding style needs to
> be fixed but that's a patch on top.

v7 includes patch "[PATCH v7 03/12] hw/i386/pc: fix code style issues on
functions that will be moved out". Or do you mean some other coding
style issues?

Thanks,
Sergio.

> series:
>
> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
>
> Paolo I assume you will be merging this?
>
>
>> ---
>> 
>> Changelog
>> v7:
>>  - Fix code style issues on already present code touched by this patch
>>    series (Michael S. Tsirkin, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Add new files to MAINTAINERS (Michael S. Tsirkin, Philippe
>>    Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Allow starting a microvm machine without a kernel image, fixing
>>    "qom-test" (Michael S. Tsirkin)
>>  - Change "bios-microvm.bin" mode to 0644 (Stefano Garzarella)
>>  - Remove unneeded "hw/i386/pc.h" include from x86.c (Stefano
>>    Garzarella)
>> 
>> v6:
>>  - Some style fixes (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Fix a documentation bug stating that LAPIC was in userspace (Paolo
>>    Bonzini)
>>  - Update Xen HVM code after X86MachineState introduction (Philippe
>>    Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Rename header guard from QEMU_VIRTIO_MMIO_H to HW_VIRTIO_MMIO_H
>>    (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
>> 
>> v5:
>>  - Drop unneeded "[PATCH v4 2/8] hw/i386: Factorize e820 related
>>    functions" (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Drop unneeded "[PATCH v4 1/8] hw/i386: Factorize PVH related
>>    functions" (Stefano Garzarella)
>>  - Split X86MachineState introduction into smaller patches (Philippe
>>    Mathieu-Daudé)
>>  - Change option-roms to x-option-roms and kernel-cmdline to
>>    auto-kernel-cmdline (Paolo Bonzini)
>>  - Make i8259 PIT and i8254 PIC optional (Paolo Bonzini)
>>  - Some fixes to the documentation (Paolo Bonzini)
>>  - Switch documentation format from txt to rst (Peter Maydell)
>>  - Move NMI interface to X86_MACHINE (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, Paolo
>>    Bonzini)
>> 
>> v4:
>>  - This is a complete rewrite of the whole patchset, with a focus on
>>    reusing as much existing code as possible to ease the maintenance burden
>>    and making the machine type as compatible as possible by default. As
>>    a result, the number of lines dedicated specifically to microvm is
>>    383 (code lines measured by "cloc") and, with the default
>>    configuration, it's now able to boot both PVH ELF images and
>>    bzImages with either SeaBIOS or qboot.
>> 
>> v3:
>>   - Add initrd support (thanks Stefano).
>> 
>> v2:
>>   - Drop "[PATCH 1/4] hw/i386: Factorize CPU routine".
>>   - Simplify machine definition (thanks Eduardo).
>>   - Remove use of unneeded NUMA-related callbacks (thanks Eduardo).
>>   - Add a patch to factorize PVH-related functions.
>>   - Replace use of Linux's Zero Page with PVH (thanks Maran and Paolo).
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Sergio Lopez (12):
>>   hw/virtio: Factorize virtio-mmio headers
>>   hw/i386/pc: rename functions shared with non-PC machines
>>   hw/i386/pc: fix code style issues on functions that will be moved out
>>   hw/i386/pc: move shared x86 functions to x86.c and export them
>>   hw/i386: split PCMachineState deriving X86MachineState from it
>>   hw/i386: make x86.c independent from PCMachineState
>>   fw_cfg: add "modify" functions for all types
>>   hw/intc/apic: reject pic ints if isa_pic == NULL
>>   roms: add microvm-bios (qboot) as binary and git submodule
>>   docs/microvm.rst: document the new microvm machine type
>>   hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type
>>   MAINTAINERS: add microvm related files
>> 
>>  docs/microvm.rst                 |  98 ++++
>>  default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak |   1 +
>>  include/hw/i386/microvm.h        |  83 ++++
>>  include/hw/i386/pc.h             |  28 +-
>>  include/hw/i386/x86.h            |  96 ++++
>>  include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h        |  42 ++
>>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.h  |  73 +++
>>  hw/acpi/cpu_hotplug.c            |  10 +-
>>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c             |  29 +-
>>  hw/i386/amd_iommu.c              |   3 +-
>>  hw/i386/intel_iommu.c            |   3 +-
>>  hw/i386/microvm.c                | 572 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/i386/pc.c                     | 781 +++---------------------------
>>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c                |  46 +-
>>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c                 |  38 +-
>>  hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c               |  60 +--
>>  hw/i386/x86.c                    | 795 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/i386/xen/xen-hvm.c            |  28 +-
>>  hw/intc/apic.c                   |   2 +-
>>  hw/intc/ioapic.c                 |   2 +-
>>  hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c                |  29 ++
>>  hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c          |  48 +-
>>  .gitmodules                      |   3 +
>>  MAINTAINERS                      |  10 +
>>  hw/i386/Kconfig                  |   4 +
>>  hw/i386/Makefile.objs            |   2 +
>>  pc-bios/bios-microvm.bin         | Bin 0 -> 65536 bytes
>>  roms/Makefile                    |   6 +
>>  roms/qboot                       |   1 +
>>  29 files changed, 1982 insertions(+), 911 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 docs/microvm.rst
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/i386/microvm.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/i386/x86.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.h
>>  create mode 100644 hw/i386/microvm.c
>>  create mode 100644 hw/i386/x86.c
>>  create mode 100644 pc-bios/bios-microvm.bin
>>  create mode 160000 roms/qboot
>> 
>> -- 
>> 2.21.0

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