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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 0/6] ppc-for-2.7 queue 20160729


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 0/6] ppc-for-2.7 queue 20160729
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:05:40 +0100

On 29 July 2016 at 05:53, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following changes since commit 21a21b853a1bb606358af61e738abfb9aecbd720:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/ehabkost/tags/x86-pull-request' into 
> staging (2016-07-27 18:18:21 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-2.7-20160729
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 059ce0f00af0124740bcb9991d160f93c92ae174:
>
>   tests: add drive_del-test to ppc/ppc64 (2016-07-29 14:14:15 +1000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ppc patch queue 2016-07-29
>
> Here are the current pending ppc and spapr related patches for
> qemu-2.7.  Given the freeze status, these are all bugfixes, with two
> exceptions:
>
>   * There's some final rework of the vcpu hotplug model.  Specifically
>     we add spapr specific code on the generic basis Igor established
>     to make cpu_index stable for pseries-2.7 and later machine types.
>       - This allows us to remove the limitation that cpu cores had to
>         be inserted in linear order, and removed in LIFO order.
>       - This is worth merging this late in 2.7 because it will avoid
>         considerable future grief with management layers needing to
>         discover whether out-of-order hotplug is possible, amongst
>         other things.
>       - For now we do add a constraint that the initial cpu cannot be
>         unplugged.
>   * We add two extra testcases to make check, for postcopy and
>     drive_del on ppc64.
>       - Not strictly bugfixes, but safe, because they don't affect the
>         actual code, and increase test coverage.
>

Applied, thanks.

-- PMM



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