Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 07/13] spapr: Start all the threads of CPU core when core is hotplugged

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:36:55PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:40:14AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > PowerPC kernel adds or removes CPUs in core granularity and hence
> > onlines/offlines all the SMT threads of a core during hot plug/unplug.
> > Support this notion by starting all SMT threads of a core when a core
> > is hotplugged.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/ppc/spapr.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > index a293a59..4347471 100644
> > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > @@ -1376,6 +1376,8 @@ static void spapr_drc_reset(void *opaque)
> >      }
> >  }
> >  
> > +static const char *current_cpu_model;
> 
> More new global variables?  Please don't.

Sure, I should be able to get the model name from the type name
of the object as Igor suggested earlier.

Regards,
Bharata.