Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/5] qmp: distinguish PC-DIMM and NVDIMM in MemoryDeviceInfoList

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 03/10/2018 07:34 PM, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> It may need to treat PC-DIMM and NVDIMM differently, e.g., when
> deciding the necessity of non-volatile flag bit in SRAT memory
> affinity structures.
> 
> NVDIMMDeviceInfo, which inherits from PCDIMMDeviceInfo, is added to
> union type MemoryDeviceInfo to record information of NVDIMM devices.
> The NVDIMM-specific data is currently left empty and will be filled
> when necessary in the future.

Stale comment.

> 
> It also fixes "info memory-devices"/query-memory-devices which
> currently show nvdimm devices as dimm devices since
> object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_PC_DIMM) happily cast nvdimm to
> TYPE_PC_DIMM which it's been inherited from.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
> ---
>   hmp.c            | 14 +++++++++++---
>   hw/mem/pc-dimm.c | 10 +++++++++-
>   numa.c           | 19 +++++++++++++------
>   qapi/misc.json   |  6 +++++-
>   4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 

> +++ b/qapi/misc.json
> @@ -2852,7 +2852,11 @@
>   #
>   # Since: 2.1

Perhaps this could somehow use a '(since 2.12)' tag; but as this is a 
"simple union" (which is anything but simple in the QAPI generator), and 
we're trying to avoid introducing new ones where possible, I'm fine 
overlooking it for now.

>   ##
> -{ 'union': 'MemoryDeviceInfo', 'data': {'dimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo'} }
> +{ 'union': 'MemoryDeviceInfo',
> +  'data': { 'dimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo',
> +            'nvdimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo'
> +          }
> +}
>   

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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