Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] Add

[Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 18:35 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > qemu/qemu-kvm.c |    5 +++++
> > 
> >
> > This patch adds a call to load_kvm_registers after creation of
> > vcpu. This is required for ppc since we are required to set certain
> > registers before boot. This should not have any effect on the curren
> > x86 code (though I need to test this to make sure).
> >
> > What I would like though are some comments on the fix. Is this the
> > right place for this? We had this in our platform setup code, but with
> > recent code changes it will not work there anymore).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/qemu/qemu-kvm.c b/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
> > --- a/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
> > +++ b/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
> > @@ -353,6 +353,11 @@ static void *ap_main_loop(void *_env)
> >      sigdelset(&signals, SIG_IPI);
> >      sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &signals, NULL);
> >      kvm_create_vcpu(kvm_context, env->cpu_index);
> > +    if (env->cpu_index = 0) {
> > +         /* load any registers set in env into 
> > +            kvm  for the first guest vcpu */ 
> > +        kvm_load_registers(env);
> > +    }
> >      kvm_qemu_init_env(env);
> >      if (kvm_irqchip_in_kernel(kvm_context))
> >  	env->hflags &= ~HF_HALTED_MASK;
> 
> Hi Jerone,
> 
> You can hook into PPC's kvm_arch_qemu_init_env().

That would be a much better place. 

I also noticed that kvm_qemu_init_env() is called in ap_main_loop and
the kvm_main_loop_cpu. ap_main_loop calls kvm_main_loop_cpu, so  one
them should be removed. I'll submit another patch for that.

> 


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