Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] Support disabling TCG on ARM (part 2)

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/30/20 9:58 AM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:43:43 +0200
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Cover from Samuel Ortiz from (part 1) [1]:
>>
>>   This patchset allows for building and running ARM targets with TCG
>>   disabled. [...]
>>
>>   The rationale behind this work comes from the NEMU project where we're
>>   trying to only support x86 and ARM 64-bit architectures, without
>>   including the TCG code base. We can only do so if we can build and run
>>   ARM binaries with TCG disabled.
> 
> I don't recall exact reason but TCG variant is used by bios-tables-test
> to test arm/virt so it will probably break that
> (it has something to do with how KVM uses CPU/GIC, which was making
> ACPI tables not stable (i.e. depend on host), so comparison with master
> tables was failing)

Not a problem, we can restrict bios-tables-test to TCG.

I don't expect the KVM-only build being able to run many
of our current tests, as most of them expect TCG.

I'll have a look at restricting the TCG-dependent tests
after this series get accepted.

> 
>>
>> v4 almost 2 years later... [2]:
>> - Rebased on Meson
>> - Addressed Richard review comments
>> - Addressed Claudio review comments
>>
>> v3 almost 18 months later [3]:
>> - Rebased
>> - Addressed Thomas review comments
>> - Added Travis-CI job to keep building --disable-tcg on ARM
>>
>> v2 [4]:
>> - Addressed review comments from Richard and Thomas from v1 [1]
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>> [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg02451.html
>> [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg689168.html
>> [3]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg641796.html
>> [4]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-08/msg05003.html
>>
>> Green CI:
>> - https://cirrus-ci.com/build/4572961761918976
>> - https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu/-/pipelines/196047779
>> - https://travis-ci.org/github/philmd/qemu/builds/731370972
>>
>> Based-on: <20200929125609.1088330-1-philmd@redhat.com>
>> "hw/arm: Restrict APEI tables generation to the 'virt' machine"
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg745792.html
>>
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (10):
>>   accel/tcg: Add stub for cpu_loop_exit()
>>   meson: Allow optional target/${ARCH}/Kconfig
>>   target/arm: Select SEMIHOSTING if TCG is available
>>   target/arm: Restrict ARMv4 cpus to TCG accel
>>   target/arm: Restrict ARMv5 cpus to TCG accel
>>   target/arm: Restrict ARMv6 cpus to TCG accel
>>   target/arm: Restrict ARMv7 R-profile cpus to TCG accel
>>   target/arm: Restrict ARMv7 M-profile cpus to TCG accel
>>   target/arm: Reorder meson.build rules
>>   .travis.yml: Add a KVM-only Aarch64 job
>>
>> Samuel Ortiz (1):
>>   target/arm: Do not build TCG objects when TCG is off
>>
>> Thomas Huth (1):
>>   target/arm: Make m_helper.c optional via CONFIG_ARM_V7M
>>
>>  default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak |  3 --
>>  meson.build                     |  8 +++-
>>  target/arm/cpu.h                | 12 ------
>>  accel/stubs/tcg-stub.c          |  5 +++
>>  target/arm/cpu_tcg.c            |  4 +-
>>  target/arm/helper.c             |  7 ----
>>  target/arm/m_helper-stub.c      | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  .travis.yml                     | 35 ++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/arm/Kconfig                  | 32 +++++++++++++++
>>  target/arm/Kconfig              |  4 ++
>>  target/arm/meson.build          | 40 +++++++++++-------
>>  11 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 target/arm/m_helper-stub.c
>>  create mode 100644 target/arm/Kconfig
>>
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