Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Resolve TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Sat, 13 May 2023, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> Am 21. April 2023 07:38:10 UTC schrieb "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>:
> >On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:41:17AM +0200, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> >> There is currently a dedicated PIIX3 device model for use under Xen. By 
> >> reusing
> >> existing PCI API during initialization this device model can be eliminated 
> >> and
> >> the plain PIIX3 device model can be used instead.
> >> 
> >> Resolving TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE results in less code while also making Xen
> >> agnostic towards the precise south bridge being used in the PC machine. The
> >> latter might become particularily interesting once PIIX4 becomes usable in 
> >> the
> >> PC machine, avoiding the "Frankenstein" use of PIIX4_ACPI in PIIX3.
> >
> >xen stuff so I assume that tree?
> 
> Ping

I am OK either way. Michael, what do you prefer?

Normally I would suggest for you to pick up the patches. But as it
happens I'll have to likely send another pull request in a week or two
and I can add these patches to it.

Let me know your preference and I am happy to follow it.


> >
> >> Testing done:
> >> - `make check`
> >> - Run `xl create` with the following config:
> >>     name = "Manjaro"
> >>     type = 'hvm'
> >>     memory = 1536
> >>     apic = 1
> >>     usb = 1
> >>     disk = [ "file:manjaro-kde-21.2.6-220416-linux515.iso,hdc:cdrom,r" ]
> >>     device_model_override = "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64"
> >>     vga = "stdvga"
> >>     sdl = 1
> >> - `qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -m 2G -cpu host -accel kvm \
> >>     -cdrom manjaro-kde-21.2.6-220416-linux515.iso`
> >> 
> >> v4:
> >> - Add patch fixing latent memory leak in pci_bus_irqs() (Anthony)
> >> 
> >> v3:
> >> - Rebase onto master
> >> 
> >> v2:
> >> - xen_piix3_set_irq() is already generic. Just rename it. (Chuck)
> >> 
> >> Tested-by: Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@aol.com>
> >> 
> >> Bernhard Beschow (7):
> >>   include/hw/xen/xen: Rename xen_piix3_set_irq() to xen_intx_set_irq()
> >>   hw/pci/pci.c: Don't leak PCIBus::irq_count[] in pci_bus_irqs()
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Reuse piix3_realize() in piix3_xen_realize()
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Wire up Xen PCI IRQ handling outside of PIIX3
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Avoid Xen-specific variant of piix3_write_config()
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Resolve redundant k->config_write assignments
> >>   hw/isa/piix3: Resolve redundant TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE
> >> 
> >>  include/hw/southbridge/piix.h |  1 -
> >>  include/hw/xen/xen.h          |  2 +-
> >>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c             | 36 +++++++++++++++++++--
> >>  hw/i386/xen/xen-hvm.c         |  2 +-
> >>  hw/isa/piix3.c                | 60 +----------------------------------
> >>  hw/pci/pci.c                  |  2 ++
> >>  stubs/xen-hw-stub.c           |  2 +-
> >>  7 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 2.40.0
> >> 
> >
>