Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] qtest: Support named interrupts

["Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@au1.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 18:24 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> 
> On 22/11/2016 18:22, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > +
> > > +        g_assert(words[1]); /* device */
> > > +        g_assert(words[2]); /* gpio list */
> > > +        g_assert(words[3]); /* gpio line in list */
> > > +        g_assert(words[4]); /* level */
> > > +        dev = DEVICE(object_resolve_path(words[1], NULL));
> > > +        if (!dev) {
> > > +            qtest_send_prefix(chr);
> > > +            qtest_send(chr, "FAIL Unknown device\n");
> > > +            return;
> > > +        }
> > > +
> > > +        irq_num = atoi(words[3]);
> > > +        level = atoi(words[4]);
> > > +
> > > +        QLIST_FOREACH(ngl, &dev->gpios, node) {
> > > +            if (strcmp(words[2], ngl->name) == 0 && ngl->num_in
> > > > irq_num) {
> > > +                irq = ngl->in[irq_num];
> > > +            }
> > > +        }
> > > +
> > > +        if (irq == NULL) {
> > > +            qtest_send_prefix(chr);
> > > +            qtest_send(chr, "FAIL Unknown IRQ\n");
> > > +            return;
> > > +        }
> > > +
> > > +        qemu_set_irq(irq, level);
> 
> This seems wrong.  The IRQ should not be modifiable by the test.
> 
> Paolo
> 

Thanks Paolo, could you please advise as to why that is?

The situation I am addressing is that I device under test that changes
behaviour when a GPIO line is raised. Is there another way I should be
raising that line from within qtest?

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Alastair D'Silva
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