Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] s390x: deprecate s390-squash-mcss machine prop

[Halil Pasic]

On 12/04/2017 12:28 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri,  1 Dec 2017 15:31:36 +0100
> Halil Pasic <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> With the cssids unrestricted (commit <COMMIT HERE> "s390x/css: unrestrict
> 
> I won't add the commit id, as I intend to merge this in one go and I
> don't want to edit this every time I rebase prior to pull.
> 

I'm fine with dropping the commit id.

>> cssids") the s390-squash-mcss machine property should not be used.
>> Actually libvirt never supported this, so the expectation is that
>> removing it should be pretty painless.  But let's play nice and deprecate
>> it first.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>
>> I would like to reference a commit for "s390x/css: unrestrict cssids"
>> which is currently in RFC status on the list.
>> ---
>>  hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 6 +++++-
>>  qemu-doc.texi              | 8 ++++++++
>>  qemu-options.hx            | 8 +++++++-
>>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
>> index 4d65a50334..3796f666e6 100644
>> --- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
>> +++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
>> @@ -553,6 +553,10 @@ static inline void machine_set_squash_mcss(Object *obj, 
>> bool value,
>>      S390CcwMachineState *ms = S390_CCW_MACHINE(obj);
>>  
>>      ms->s390_squash_mcss = value;
>> +    if (ms->s390_squash_mcss) {
>> +        warn_report("The machine property 's390-squash-mcss' is deprecated"
>> +                    " (obsoleted by lifting the cssid restrictions).");
> 
> Too bad that we can't warn when this is explicitly set to false - OTOH
> I don't really expect anyone doing that.
> 

I did not really dig deep. It may be possible, but I had other priorities,
and was not sure if it's worth (as I also don't expect it being set to false
explicit in the wild).

>> +    }
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline void s390_machine_initfn(Object *obj)
>> @@ -582,7 +586,7 @@ static inline void s390_machine_initfn(Object *obj)
>>      object_property_add_bool(obj, "s390-squash-mcss",
>>                               machine_get_squash_mcss,
>>                               machine_set_squash_mcss, NULL);
>> -    object_property_set_description(obj, "s390-squash-mcss",
>> +    object_property_set_description(obj, "s390-squash-mcss", "(deprecated) "
>>              "enable/disable squashing subchannels into the default css",
>>              NULL);
>>      object_property_set_bool(obj, false, "s390-squash-mcss", NULL);
>> diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
>> index db2351c746..874432d87c 100644
>> --- a/qemu-doc.texi
>> +++ b/qemu-doc.texi
>> @@ -2501,6 +2501,14 @@ enabled via the ``-machine usb=on'' argument.
>>  
>>  The ``-nodefconfig`` argument is a synonym for ``-no-user-config``.
>>  
>> address@hidden -machine virtio-ccw,s390-squash-mcss=on|off (since 2.12.0)
>> +
>> +The ``s390-squash-mcss=on`` property has been obsoleted by allowing the
>> +cssid to be chosen freely. Instead of squashing subchannels into the
>> +default channel subsystem image for guests that do not support multiple
>> +channel subsystems, all devices can be put into the default channel
>> +subsystem image.
>> +
>>  @section qemu-img command line arguments
>>  
>>  @subsection convert -s (since 2.0.0)
>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>> index f11c4ac960..fe0c29271f 100644
>> --- a/qemu-options.hx
>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
>>      "                suppress-vmdesc=on|off disables self-describing 
>> migration (default=off)\n"
>>      "                nvdimm=on|off controls NVDIMM support (default=off)\n"
>>      "                enforce-config-section=on|off enforce configuration 
>> section migration (default=off)\n"
>> -    "                s390-squash-mcss=on|off controls support for squashing 
>> into default css (default=off)\n",
>> +    "                s390-squash-mcss=on|off (deprecated) controls support 
>> for squashing into default css (default=off)\n",
>>      QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
>>  STEXI
>>  @item -machine address@hidden,address@hidden,...]]
>> @@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ Enables or disables NVDIMM support. The default is off.
>>  @item s390-squash-mcss=on|off
>>  Enables or disables squashing subchannels into the default css.
>>  The default is off.
>> +NOTE: This property is deprecated and will be removed in future releases.
>> +The ``s390-squash-mcss=on`` property has been obsoleted by allowing the
>> +cssid to be chosen freely. Instead of squashing subchannels into the
>> +default channel subsystem image for guests that do not support multiple
>> +channel subsystems, all devices can be put into the default channel
>> +subsystem image.
>>  @item enforce-config-section=on|off
>>  If @option{enforce-config-section} is set to @var{on}, force migration
>>  code to send configuration section even if the machine-type sets the
> 
> Looks sane. We should put a note into the 2.12 changelog as well.
> 

I agree. Who would be responsible for updating the changelog. I'm not
familiar with that process yet. To be honest, I wouldn't mind having
the changelog notice in your writing style. Guess would be better for
everyone ;).

There are also other things we identified as TODOs:
* Updating https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Channel_I/O_Passthrough
(@Dong Jia, could you take this one)
* In tree and/or on wiki documentation which is up-to-date and
more verbose than commit messages are supposed to be (and Dong
Jia's write-up could be incorporated to). I see this one as
lower prio though. Any volunteers?

Many thanks for the guidance!

Halil