Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] target-i386: move cpu halted decision into x86_cpu_reset

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 23.07.2012 15:22, schrieb Igor Mammedov:
> MP initialization protocol differs between cpu families, and for P6 and
> onward models it is up to CPU to decide if it will be BSP using this
> protocol, so try to model this. However there is no point in implementing
> MP initialization protocol in qemu. Thus first CPU is always marked as BSP.
> 
> This patch:
>  - moves decision to designate BSP from board into cpu, making cpu
> self-sufficient in this regard. Later it will allow to cleanup hw/pc.c
> and remove cpu_reset and wrappers from there.
>  - stores flag that CPU is BSP in IA32_APIC_BASE to model behavior
> described in Inted SDM vol 3a part 1 chapter 8.4.1
>  - uses MSR_IA32_APICBASE_BSP flag in apic_base for checking if cpu is BSP
> 
> patch is based on Jan Kiszka's proposal:
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/100806
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> Changelog:
>  v2:
>    - fix build for i386-linux-user
>       spotted-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>  v3:
>    - style change requested by Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> 
>  v4:
>    - reuse cpu_is_bsp() rather than open code check if apicbase has BSP bit set
>       requested by  Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
>    - hijacked patch [1] to use X86CPU instead of CPUX86State in cpu_is_bsp()
> 
>  v5:
>    - move Changelog under ---
>       requested by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> 
>  1) [PATCH qom-next 06/59] pc: Pass X86CPU to cpu_is_bsp()
>    SoB: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-05/msg03185.html

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

I'm fine with this patch, including the squashing of my trivial patch
without SoB, but would appreciate someone who knows the APIC (Jan?) to
add an explicit Acked-by.

Andreas

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