[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v0 1/8] cpu: Store CPU typename in MachineState

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Storing CPU typename in MachineState lets us to create CPU threads
for all architectures in uniform manner from arch-neutral code.

TODO: Touching only sPAPR target for now

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 hw/ppc/spapr.c      | 2 ++
 include/hw/boards.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index 5bd8fd3..3892a99 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -1823,6 +1823,8 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(MachineState *machine)
     if (machine->cpu_model == NULL) {
         machine->cpu_model = kvm_enabled() ? "host" : "POWER7";
     }
+    machine->cpu_type = TYPE_POWERPC_CPU;
+
     for (i = 0; i < smp_cpus; i++) {
         cpu = cpu_ppc_init(machine->cpu_model);
         if (cpu == NULL) {
diff --git a/include/hw/boards.h b/include/hw/boards.h
index 0f30959..cf95d10 100644
--- a/include/hw/boards.h
+++ b/include/hw/boards.h
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ struct MachineState {
     char *kernel_cmdline;
     char *initrd_filename;
     const char *cpu_model;
+    const char *cpu_type;
     AccelState *accelerator;
 };
 
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