Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH] powerpc/spapr: Add host threads parameter to ibm, get_system_parameter

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:39:21 +1000
Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> wrote:

> The ibm,get_system_parameter rtas call is used by the guest to retrieve
> data relating to certain parameters of the system. The SPLPAR
> characteristics option (token 20) is used to determin characteristics of
> the environment in which the lpar will run.
> 
> It may be useful for a guest to know the number of physical host threads
> present on the underlying system where it is being run. Add the
> characteristic "HostThrs" to the SPLPAR Characteristics
> ibm,get_system_parameter rtas call to expose this information to a
> guest and provide an implementation which determines this information
> based on the number of interrupt servers present in the device tree.
> 

Shouldn't this also take split core into account, ie. divide the
result by "/sys/devices/system/cpu/subcores_per_core" like the 
ppc64_cpu command from powerpc-utils does ?

> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> index 5bc1a93271..a33d87794c 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> @@ -229,6 +229,40 @@ static inline int sysparm_st(target_ulong addr, target_ulong len,
>      return RTAS_OUT_SUCCESS;
>  }
>  
> +static int rtas_get_num_host_threads(void)
> +{
> +    const char *entry, *name = "/proc/device-tree/cpus/";
> +    int num_threads = -1;
> +    GDir *dir;
> +
> +    if (!kvm_enabled())
> +        return 1;
> +
> +    dir = g_dir_open(name, 0, NULL);
> +    if (!dir)
> +        return -1;
> +
> +    while ((entry = g_dir_read_name(dir))) {
> +        if (!strncmp(entry, "PowerPC,POWER", strlen("PowerPC,POWER"))) {
> +            unsigned long len;
> +            char *path, *buf;
> +
> +            path = g_strconcat(name, entry, "/ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s",
> +                               NULL);
> +            if (g_file_get_contents(path, &buf, &len, NULL)) {
> +                num_threads = len / sizeof(int);
> +                g_free(buf);
> +            }
> +
> +            g_free(path);
> +            break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> +    g_dir_close(dir);
> +    return num_threads;
> +}
> +
>  static void rtas_ibm_get_system_parameter(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>                                            SpaprMachineState *spapr,
>                                            uint32_t token, uint32_t nargs,
> @@ -250,6 +284,16 @@ static void rtas_ibm_get_system_parameter(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>                                            current_machine->ram_size / MiB,
>                                            smp_cpus,
>                                            max_cpus);
> +        int num_host_threads = rtas_get_num_host_threads();
> +
> +        if (num_host_threads > 0) {
> +            char *hostthr_val, *old = param_val;
> +
> +            hostthr_val = g_strdup_printf(",HostThrs=%d", num_host_threads);
> +            param_val = g_strconcat(param_val, hostthr_val, NULL);
> +            g_free(hostthr_val);
> +            g_free(old);
> +        }
>          ret = sysparm_st(buffer, length, param_val, strlen(param_val) + 1);
>          g_free(param_val);
>          break;