Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] nvdimm: hotplug support

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 03:01:33PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:35:36 +0800
> Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > It is based on my previous patchset,
> > "[PATCH 0/8] nvdimm acpi: bug fix and cleanup", these two patchset are
> > against commit dea651a95af6dad099 (intel-iommu: Check IOAPIC's Trigger Mode
> > against the one in IRTE) on pci branch of Michael's git tree and can be
> > found at:
> >       https://github.com/xiaogr/qemu.git nvdimm-hotplug-v3
> > 
> > Changelog in v3:
> >    1) use a dedicated interrupt for nvdimm device hotplug
> >    2) stop nvdimm device hot unplug
> >    3) reserve UUID and handle for QEMU internally used QEMU
> >    5) redesign fit buffer to avoid OSPM reading incomplete fit info
> >    6) bug fixes and cleanups
> > 
> > Changelog in v2:
> >    Fixed signed integer overflow pointed out by Stefan Hajnoczi
> > 
> > This patchset enables nvdimm hotplug support, it is used as pc-dimm hotplug,
> > for example, a new nvdimm device can be plugged as follows:
> > object_add memory-backend-file,id=mem3,size=10G,mem-path=/home/eric/nvdimm3
> > device_add nvdimm,id=nvdimm3,memdev=mem3
> > 
> > and unplug it as follows:
> > device_del nvdimm3
> > object_del mem3
> there is no unplug support
> 
> 
> instead of incremental fixups on top merged patches in followup series,
> I'd prefer it to make a clean revert for patches 2-4/4  first and
> them amended versions of them to follow.

Let's get the fixes reviewed first, how to apply them is
a minor issue in my eyes.


> > 
> > Xiao Guangrong (4):
> >   nvdimm acpi: prebuild nvdimm devices for available slots
> >   nvdimm acpi: introduce fit buffer
> >   nvdimm acpi: introduce _FIT
> >   pc: memhp: enable nvdimm device hotplug
> > 
> >  docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt      |   3 +
> >  docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt           |  58 ++++++-
> >  hw/acpi/memory_hotplug.c             |  31 +++-
> >  hw/acpi/nvdimm.c                     | 286 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  hw/core/hotplug.c                    |  11 ++
> >  hw/core/qdev.c                       |  20 ++-
> >  hw/i386/acpi-build.c                 |   9 +-
> >  hw/i386/pc.c                         |  31 ++++
> >  hw/mem/nvdimm.c                      |   4 -
> >  include/hw/acpi/acpi_dev_interface.h |   1 +
> >  include/hw/hotplug.h                 |  10 ++
> >  include/hw/mem/nvdimm.h              |  27 +++-
> >  12 files changed, 443 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> >