Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] fw_cfg: set the get_boot_devices_list() ignore_suffixes parameter from machine property

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 08/06/18 22:11, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 12:28:50PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> For the older machines (such as Mac and SPARC) the DT nodes representing
>> bootdevices for disk nodes are irregular for mainly historical reasons, and
>> should be handled on an individual basis via a custom FWPathProvider.
>>
>> Since the majority of bootdevice nodes for these machines either do not have a
>> separate disk node or require different (custom) names then it is much easier
>> to allow the ignore_suffixes parameter to be set on a per-machine basis via
>> a machine property.
>>
>> The default value for this new fwcfg_bootdevice_ignore_suffixes machine
>> property is false to preserve compatibility for existing machines.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
>> ---
>>  hw/core/machine.c   | 3 +++
>>  hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c   | 5 ++++-
>>  include/hw/boards.h | 1 +
>>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
>> index a9aeb22f03..fbadb35865 100644
>> --- a/hw/core/machine.c
>> +++ b/hw/core/machine.c
>> @@ -525,6 +525,9 @@ static void machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->default_ram_size = 128 * MiB;
>>      mc->rom_file_has_mr = true;
>>  
>> +    /* Default to using fwcfg bootdevice suffixes */
>> +    mc->fwcfg_bootdevice_ignore_suffixes = false;
>> +
>>      /* numa node memory size aligned on 8MB by default.
>>       * On Linux, each node's border has to be 8MB aligned
>>       */
>> diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> index b23e7f64a8..ec6b8113ab 100644
>> --- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> +++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> @@ -861,7 +861,10 @@ static void fw_cfg_machine_reset(void *opaque)
>>      void *ptr;
>>      size_t len;
>>      FWCfgState *s = opaque;
>> -    char *bootindex = get_boot_devices_list(&len, false);
>> +    MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(qdev_get_machine());
>> +
>> +    char *bootindex = get_boot_devices_list(&len,
>> +                          mc->fwcfg_bootdevice_ignore_suffixes);
>>  
>>      ptr = fw_cfg_modify_file(s, "bootorder", (uint8_t *)bootindex, len);
>>      g_free(ptr);
>> diff --git a/include/hw/boards.h b/include/hw/boards.h
>> index d139a431a6..2cf76d82a6 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/boards.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/boards.h
>> @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ struct MachineClass {
>>      const char **valid_cpu_types;
>>      strList *allowed_dynamic_sysbus_devices;
>>      bool auto_enable_numa_with_memhp;
>> +    bool fwcfg_bootdevice_ignore_suffixes;
> 
> We add MachineClass field when there's no obvious place for a
> device property (that we could set using compat_props).
> 
> In this case you are controlling behavior of TYPE_FW_CFG, so I
> suggest adding a compat property to TYPE_FW_CFG, and setting it
> on MachineClass::compat_props.  This way we avoid adding a
> fw_cfg-specific field to MachineClass.

Sigh, good point, I felt I was missing something!

Laszlo

> 
>>      void (*numa_auto_assign_ram)(MachineClass *mc, NodeInfo *nodes,
>>                                   int nb_nodes, ram_addr_t size);
>>  
>> -- 
>> 2.11.0
>>
>>
>