Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/9] e1000: Various fixes and registers' implementation

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 11/11/2015 09:52 PM, Leonid Bloch wrote:
> This series fixes issues with packet/octet counting in e1000's Statistic
> registers, fixes a bug in the packet address filtering procedure, and
> implements many MAC registers that were absent before, some Statistic
> counters among them.
>
> Besides this, the series introduces a parameter which, if set to "on"
> (default), will cause the entire MAC registers' array to migrate during
> live migration (please see patches #2 and #9 for details). The rational
> behind this is the ability to implement additional MAC registers in the
> future, without worrying about migration compatibility between future
> versions. For compatibility with previous versions, the above mentioned
> parameter can be set to "off".
>
> Also, a new array is introduced to control the access to the various MAC
> registers. This takes care of situations when a MAC register requires a
> certain parameter to be accessed, or is partially implemented, and
> requires a debug warning to be printed on access attempts.
>
> Additionally, several cosmetic changes are made.
>
> Differences v1-2:
> --------------------
> * Wording of several commit messages corrected.
> * For trivially implemented Diagnostic registers, a debug message is
>   added on read/write attempts, alerting of incomplete implementation.
> * Following testing on a physical device, only the lower 16 bits can now
>   be read from AIT, and only the lower 4 - from FFMT*.
> * The grow_8reg_if_not_full function is rewritten.
> * inc_tx_bcast_or_mcast_count and increase_size_stats are now called
>   from within e1000_send_packet, to avoid code duplication.
>
> Differences v2-3:
> --------------------
> * Minor rewordings of some commit messages (0002, 0003).
> * Live migration capability is added to the newly implemented registers.
>
> Differences v3-4:
> --------------------
> * Introduction of the "full_mac_registers" parameter (see above).
> * Reversion of the live migration handling introduced in v3.
> * Small alignment changes in patch #1 to correspond with the following
>   patches.
>
> Differences v4-v5:
> --------------------
> * Introduction of an array to control the access to the MAC registers.
> * Removal of the specific functions that warned of partial
>   implementation on read/write from patch 4.
> * Adequate changes to patches 4 and 8: mainly adding the registers
>   introduced there to the new array.
>
> Differences v5-v6:
> --------------------
> * The access control array now does not contain an "always accessible"
>   bit. The assumption that a register is always accessible is based now
>   solely on the facts that it has a read or write handler, and it does
>   not require a flag to be set. That also makes place for 6 possible
>   flag bits in the access control array, instead of 5 in v5.
> * The support for backward compatibility, nor the new registers
>   introduced in this series, can not be turned on now until the last
>   patch in this series is applied. This is done to preserve
>   compatibility if bisection in-between the patches of this series will
>   be needed.
>
> The majority of these changes result from Jason Wang's review - thank
> you, Jason!

Applied in https://github.com/jasowang/qemu/commits/net with a minor
modification:

- Move the compat property from patch 3 to patch 9

Thanks

>
> Leonid Bloch (9):
>   e1000: Cosmetic and alignment fixes
>   e1000: Add support for migrating the entire MAC registers' array
>   e1000: Introduced an array to control the access to the MAC registers
>   e1000: Trivial implementation of various MAC registers
>   e1000: Fixing the received/transmitted packets' counters
>   e1000: Fixing the received/transmitted octets' counters
>   e1000: Fixing the packet address filtering procedure
>   e1000: Implementing various counters
>   e1000: Introducing backward compatibility command line parameter
>
>  hw/net/e1000.c      | 476 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  hw/net/e1000_regs.h |   8 +-
>  include/hw/compat.h |   4 +
>  3 files changed, 379 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>