Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 0/3] Split cpu_exec_init() into an init and a realize part

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:44:04PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:52:46AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Since commit 42ecaba ("target-i386: Call cpu_exec_init() on realize"),
> > , commit 6dd0f83 ("target-ppc: Move cpu_exec_init() call to realize 
> > function"),
> > and commit c6644fc ("s390x/cpu: Get rid of side effects when creating a 
> > vcpu"),
> > cpu_exec_init() has been moved to realize function for some architectures
> > to implement CPU htoplug. This allows any failures from cpu_exec_init() to 
> > be
> > handled appropriately.
> > 
> > This series tries to do the same work for all the other CPUs.
> > 
> > But as the ARM Virtual Machine ("virt") needs the "memory" property of the 
> > CPU
> > in the machine init function (the "memory" property is created in
> > cpu_exec_init() we want to move to the realize part), split cpu_exec_init() 
> > in
> > two parts: a realize part (cpu_exec_realizefn(), adding the CPU in the
> > environment) and an init part (cpu_exec_initfn(), initializing the CPU, like
> > adding the "memory" property). To mirror the realize part, add an unrealize
> > part, and remove the cpu_exec_exit() call from the finalize part.
> > 
> > This also allows to remove all the "cannot_destroy_with_object_finalize_yet"
> > properties from the CPU device class.
> 
> This is looking good to me - the v3 re-org has made it quite a bit
> easier to follow.
> 
> Whose tree should this go via?

I can merge it through the machine tree, if others agree.

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Eduardo