Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix legacy device aliases for s390

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 05/03/2012 04:07 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 03.05.2012, at 11:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>>
>>>> The usual old fix was to not even compile them in. Why are they in
>>>> the alias list in the s390 build now?
>>>
>>> Because the alias list is in target-independent code.
>>>
>>> The old fix was brittle anyway, it dependent on the fact that
>>> virtio-blk-pci was not part of libhw.  A similar trick broke for
>>> cirrus-vga when it became part of libhw.
>>>
>>> Christian fix is correct.
>>
>> Uhm, Christian fix would have the same problem actually if
>> virtio-*-pci were to be moved in libhw.  IIRC I proposed the
>> same change on review and Anthony nacked it on these grounds.
>> You could move the alias list to target-dependent code, though.
>
> Can't we just make the virtio-*-pci variants fail instantiation and based on that search the list on?

No, but you could do:

diff --git a/hw/qdev-monitor.c b/hw/qdev-monitor.c
index dc4e4e1..f90966f 100644
--- a/hw/qdev-monitor.c
+++ b/hw/qdev-monitor.c
@@ -29,16 +29,17 @@ typedef struct QDevAlias
  {
      const char *typename;
      const char *alias;
+    uint32_t arch_mask;
  } QDevAlias;

  static const QDevAlias qdev_alias_table[] = {
-    { "virtio-blk-pci", "virtio-blk" },
-    { "virtio-net-pci", "virtio-net" },
-    { "virtio-serial-pci", "virtio-serial" },
-    { "virtio-balloon-pci", "virtio-balloon" },
-    { "virtio-blk-s390", "virtio-blk" },
-    { "virtio-net-s390", "virtio-net" },
-    { "virtio-serial-s390", "virtio-serial" },
+    { "virtio-blk-pci", "virtio-blk", QEMU_ARCH_ALL & ~QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-net-pci", "virtio-net", QEMU_ARCH_ALL & ~QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-serial-pci", "virtio-serial", QEMU_ARCH_ALL & ~QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-balloon-pci", "virtio-balloon", QEMU_ARCH_ALL & ~QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-blk-s390", "virtio-blk", QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-net-s390", "virtio-net", QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
+    { "virtio-serial-s390", "virtio-serial", QEMU_ARCH_S390X },
      { "lsi53c895a", "lsi" },
      { "ich9-ahci", "ahci" },
      { }
@@ -110,6 +111,11 @@ static const char *find_typename_by_alias(const char *alias)
      int i;

      for (i = 0; qdev_alias_table[i].alias; i++) {
+        if (qdev_alias_table[i].mask &&
+            !(qdev_alias_table[i].mask & arch_type)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
          if (strcmp(qdev_alias_table[i].alias, alias) == 0) {
              return qdev_alias_table[i].typename;
          }


Not tested at all as I'm on holiday but if you wanted to take this patch and run 
with it, I think that would be a reasonable approach.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Alex
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