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From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Wei Yang" <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com,
	mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] pc-dimm: remove realize callback
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:17:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222081713.GA4743@richard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190221153753.48b40fd0@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:37:53PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:36:57 +0100
>Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/19/19 7:07 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> > PCDIMM's realize callback is introduced to do proper setup for NVDIMM.
>> > 
>> > Currently the NVDIMM setup task is nvdimm_prepare_memory_region(), which
>> > is done in pre_plug stage. This means related task has already been done
>> > at realize point.
>> > 
>> > This patch remove PCDIMM realize callback.
>
>pre_plug is machine helper and that it calls nvdimm_prepare_memory_region()
>indirectly is just of side effect of current nvdimm impl. Another machine
>might choose to implement it's own pre_plug to use with nvdimms, in which
>case it might not call the function before realize, hence this patch makes
>nvdimm device model incomplete and less robust.

Sounds reasonable.

Call nvdimm_prepare_memory_region() two times is really ugly. Hmm... could we
improve this?

-- 
Wei Yang
Help you, Help me

      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-19  6:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] PCDIMM cleanup Wei Yang
2019-02-19  6:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pc-dimm: remove check on pc-dimm hotpluggable Wei Yang
2019-02-19 12:26   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-21 14:30     ` Igor Mammedov
2019-02-19 12:29   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-19 13:02     ` Wei Yang
2019-02-19  6:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] pc-dimm: remove realize callback Wei Yang
2019-02-19 12:36   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-19 13:05     ` Wei Yang
2019-02-21 14:37     ` Igor Mammedov
2019-02-22  8:17       ` Wei Yang [this message]

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