Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Add cpu-add way cpu hotplug support

[Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>]

On 02/18/2015 11:19 AM, Wei Huang wrote:
> Nice work. I will help review the patches.
> 
> Other than the CPU hotplug support, we are also seeking the guest VM
> powerdown support via ACPI. This feature is important for management
> tool to control guest VMs. In fact I had a similar GPIO patch for
> powerdown recently. Given that you already posted a more complete
> version, I wonder if you can add this feature to your patchset? FYI, I
> attached my powerdown patch in this email. Here is a brief list of items:
> 
> * DSDT description of power button (to-be-done)
This is the fix (or something similar) to be added to DSDT table:
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-acpi/2014-July/002357.html

> * Hook up with qemu_qemu_register_powerdown_notifier() with the GPIO IRQ
> 
> Feel free to add my name as signed-off-by in this feature if you decide
> to add it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Wei
> 
> On 02/17/2015 04:09 AM, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> Add cpu-add hotplug support in machine virt. As there are some properties
>> which are set out of arm_cpu_initfn, so the way of device_add is not
>> supported now. This will add at next version. Some good suggestion?
>>
>> This patchset is based on below patch:
>> [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] Generate ACPI v5.1 tables and	expose it to guest over fw_cfg on ARM
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-02/msg03290.html
>>
>> Have done compile test and start a Linux guest, execute cpu-add in monitor, use info cpu
>> to check a new cpu created. But as the guest kernel driver is not ready, so it can't be
>> used by guest now.
>>
>> Any comments are welcome.
>> Thanks,
>> Shannon
>>
>> Shannon Zhao (7):
>>   hw/arm/virt: Add a GPIO controller
>>   hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Add GPIO controller in ACPI DSDT table
>>   hw/acpi/virt-hotplug: Add a hotplug device for machine virt
>>   topology: Move topology.h to an arch-independent location
>>   target-arm/cpu: Add apic_id property for ARMCPU
>>   hw/arm/virt: Add cpu hotplug support
>>   hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Add cpu hotplug support in ACPI
>>
>>  default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak  |    2 +
>>  hw/acpi/Makefile.objs            |    1 +
>>  hw/acpi/aml-build.c              |  135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/acpi/cpu_hotplug.c            |   16 +---
>>  hw/acpi/ich9.c                   |   12 +++
>>  hw/acpi/piix4.c                  |   12 +++
>>  hw/acpi/virt-hotplug.c           |  141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c         |  198 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  hw/arm/virt.c                    |  190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h      |   13 +++
>>  include/hw/acpi/cpu_hotplug.h    |    6 +-
>>  include/hw/acpi/topology.h       |  134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/hw/acpi/virt-hotplug.h   |   11 ++
>>  include/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.h |    3 +
>>  target-arm/cpu-qom.h             |    1 +
>>  target-arm/cpu.c                 |   77 +++++++++++++++
>>  target-arm/cpu.h                 |    2 +
>>  target-i386/cpu.c                |    4 +-
>>  target-i386/topology.h           |  134 -------------------------
>>  tests/test-x86-cpuid.c           |   10 +-
>>  20 files changed, 940 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 hw/acpi/virt-hotplug.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/acpi/topology.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/acpi/virt-hotplug.h
>>  delete mode 100644 target-i386/topology.h
>>
>>
>>