Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] virtio-pmem: add virtio device

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:19:01 +0530
Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is the implementation of virtio-pmem device. Support will require
> machine changes for the architectures that will support it, so it will
> not yet be compiled. It can be unlocked with VIRTIO_PMEM_SUPPORTED per
> machine and disabled globally via VIRTIO_PMEM.
> 
> We cannot use the "addr" property as that is already used e.g. for
> virtio-pci/pci devices. And we will have e.g. virtio-pmem-pci as a proxy.
> So we have to choose a different one (unfortunately). "memaddr" it is.
> That name should ideally be used by all other virtio-* based memory
> devices in the future.
>     -device virtio-pmem-pci,id=p0,bus=bux0,addr=0x01,memaddr=0x1000000...
> 
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> [ QAPI bits ]
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden>
> [ MemoryDevice/MemoryRegion changes, cleanups, addr property "memaddr",
>   split up patches, unplug handler ]
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/virtio/Kconfig               |  10 +++
>  hw/virtio/Makefile.objs         |   1 +
>  hw/virtio/virtio-pmem.c         | 189 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-pmem.h |  49 +++++++++++
>  qapi/misc.json                  |  28 +++++-
>  5 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/virtio-pmem.c
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-pmem.h
> 

> diff --git a/qapi/misc.json b/qapi/misc.json
> index dc4cf9da20..6f1bff10e4 100644
> --- a/qapi/misc.json
> +++ b/qapi/misc.json
> @@ -2738,16 +2738,42 @@
>            }
>  }
>  
> +##
> +# @VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo:
> +#
> +# VirtioPMEM state information
> +#
> +# @id: device's ID
> +#
> +# @memaddr: physical address in memory, where device is mapped
> +#
> +# @size: size of memory that the device provides
> +#
> +# @memdev: memory backend linked with device
> +#
> +# Since: 4.1

Not sure if this can still make it...

> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo',
> +  'data': { '*id': 'str',
> +            'memaddr': 'size',
> +            'size': 'size',
> +            'memdev': 'str'
> +          }
> +}
> +
>  ##
>  # @MemoryDeviceInfo:
>  #
>  # Union containing information about a memory device
>  #
> +# nvdimm is included since 2.12. virtio-pmem is included since 4.1.
> +#
>  # Since: 2.1
>  ##
>  { 'union': 'MemoryDeviceInfo',
>    'data': { 'dimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo',
> -            'nvdimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo'
> +            'nvdimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo',
> +            'virtio-pmem': 'VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo'
>            }
>  }
>  

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>