Re: [PATCH 2/5] i386/cpu: add IsDefined flag to smp-cache property

[Alireza Sanaee via <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:21:28 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:38:26 +0100
> Alireza Sanaee <alireza.sanaee@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> > This commit adds IsDefined flag to the object and this helps in
> > avoiding extra checks for every single layer of caches in both x86
> > and ARM.  
> Hi Ali,
> 
> You mention x86 here, but no code changes to support that?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
Hi Jonathan,

I used this flag in Patch 4 in build_pptt function.

This flag is one of the todos Liu put as comment on his patch as
well, and it is useful for me too.

Thanks,
Alireza
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alireza Sanaee <alireza.sanaee@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/core/machine-smp.c | 2 ++
> >  include/hw/boards.h   | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/core/machine-smp.c b/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> > index 9a28194676..5a02bbf584 100644
> > --- a/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> > +++ b/hw/core/machine-smp.c
> > @@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ bool machine_parse_smp_cache(MachineState *ms,
> >          return false;
> >      }
> >  
> > +    ms->smp_cache.IsDefined = true;
> > +
> >      return true;
> >  }
> >  
> > diff --git a/include/hw/boards.h b/include/hw/boards.h
> > index db2aa2b706..2883a57084 100644
> > --- a/include/hw/boards.h
> > +++ b/include/hw/boards.h
> > @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ typedef struct CpuTopology {
> >  
> >  typedef struct SmpCache {
> >      SmpCacheProperties props[CACHE_LEVEL_AND_TYPE__MAX];
> > +    bool IsDefined;
> >  } SmpCache;
> >  
> >  /**  
>