Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] ppc/e500: Use start-powered-off CPUState property

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 8/18/20 9:22 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 8/18/20 5:33 AM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>> Instead of setting CPUState::halted to 1 in ppce500_cpu_reset_sec(), use
>> the start-powered-off property which makes cpu_common_reset() initialize it
>> to 1 in common code.
>>
>> Also change creation of CPU object from cpu_create() to object_new() and
>> qdev_realize() because cpu_create() realizes the CPU and it's not possible
>> to set a property after the object is realized.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  hw/ppc/e500.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/e500.c b/hw/ppc/e500.c
>> index ab9884e315..0077aca74d 100644
>> --- a/hw/ppc/e500.c
>> +++ b/hw/ppc/e500.c
>> @@ -704,9 +704,6 @@ static void ppce500_cpu_reset_sec(void *opaque)
>>  
>>      cpu_reset(cs);
>>  
>> -    /* Secondary CPU starts in halted state for now. Needs to change when
>> -       implementing non-kernel boot. */
>> -    cs->halted = 1;
>>      cs->exception_index = EXCP_HLT;
>>  }
>>  
>> @@ -864,8 +861,9 @@ void ppce500_init(MachineState *machine)
>>          PowerPCCPU *cpu;
>>          CPUState *cs;
>>          qemu_irq *input;
>> +        Error *err = NULL;
>>  
>> -        cpu = POWERPC_CPU(cpu_create(machine->cpu_type));
>> +        cpu = POWERPC_CPU(object_new(machine->cpu_type));
>>          env = &cpu->env;
>>          cs = CPU(cpu);
>>  
>> @@ -897,6 +895,19 @@ void ppce500_init(MachineState *machine)
>>          } else {
>>              /* Secondary CPUs */
>>              qemu_register_reset(ppce500_cpu_reset_sec, cpu);
>> +
>> +            /*
>> +             * Secondary CPU starts in halted state for now. Needs to change
>> +             * when implementing non-kernel boot.
>> +             */
>> +            object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(cs), "start-powered-off", true,
>> +                                     &error_abort);
> 
> [*]
> 
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        if (!qdev_realize(DEVICE(cs), NULL, &err)) {
>> +            error_report_err(err);
>> +            object_unref(OBJECT(cs));
>> +            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>          }
> 
> The last 4 lines are equivalent to:
> 
>            qdev_realize(DEVICE(cs), NULL, &error_fatal)) {

I meant:

             qdev_realize(DEVICE(cs), NULL, &error_fatal);

> 
> This is also the preferred form, as we can not propagate errors
> from the machine_init() handler.
> 
> Since you use &error_abort in [*], maybe you want to use it here too.
> 
>>      }
>>  
>>
>