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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Claudio Fontana" <cfontana@suse.de>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 18/22] accel: introduce AccelCPUClass extending CPUClass
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:29:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ed971e-a4fe-77c5-94b9-28691874ee32@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s8dujj5.fsf@linaro.org>

On 1/28/21 5:08 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> writes:
> 
>> On 1/28/21 2:03 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 1/28/21 10:28 AM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> +
>>>> +#define TYPE_ACCEL_CPU "accel-" CPU_RESOLVING_TYPE
>>>> +#define ACCEL_CPU_NAME(name) (name "-" TYPE_ACCEL_CPU)
>>>> +typedef struct AccelCPUClass AccelCPUClass;
>>>> +DECLARE_CLASS_CHECKERS(AccelCPUClass, ACCEL_CPU, TYPE_ACCEL_CPU)
>>>> +
>>>> +typedef struct AccelCPUClass {
>>>> +    /*< private >*/
>>>> +    ObjectClass parent_class;
>>>> +    /*< public >*/
>>>> +
>>>> +    void (*cpu_class_init)(CPUClass *cc);
>>>> +    void (*cpu_instance_init)(CPUState *cpu);
>>>> +    void (*cpu_realizefn)(CPUState *cpu, Error **errp);
>>>
>>> If we want callers to check errp, better have the prototype return
>>> a boolean.
>>
>> Good point, the whole errp thing is worth revisiting in the series,
>> there are many cases (which are basically reproduced in the refactoring from existing code),
>> where errp is passed but is really unused.
>>
>> I am constantly internally debating whether to remove the parameter altogether, or to keep it in there.
>>
>> What would you suggest?
> 
> I think it really depends on if we can expect the realizefn to usefully
> return an error message that can be read and understood by the user. I
> guess this comes down to how much user config is going to be checked at
> the point we realize the CPU?

cpu_realize() is were various feature checks are, isn't it?

  -cpu mycpu,feat1=on,feat2=off
  CPU 'mycpu' can not disable feature 'feat2' because of REASON.

> The bool returning realizefn with Error is a fairly common pattern.
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-28  9:27 [PATCH v14 00/22] i386 cleanup PART 2 Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 01/22] cpu: Introduce TCGCpuOperations struct Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 02/22] target/riscv: remove CONFIG_TCG, as it is always TCG Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28 18:34   ` Alex Bennée
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 03/22] accel/tcg: split TCG-only code from cpu_exec_realizefn Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 04/22] cpu: Move synchronize_from_tb() to tcg_ops Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28 18:58   ` Alex Bennée
2021-01-28 23:01     ` Richard Henderson
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 05/22] cpu: Move cpu_exec_* " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 06/22] cpu: Move tlb_fill " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:27 ` [PATCH v14 07/22] cpu: Move debug_excp_handler " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 08/22] target/arm: do not use cc->do_interrupt for KVM directly Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 09/22] cpu: move cc->do_interrupt to tcg_ops Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 10/22] cpu: move cc->transaction_failed " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 11/22] cpu: move do_unaligned_access " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 12/22] physmem: make watchpoint checking code TCG-only Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28 19:09   ` Alex Bennée
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 13/22] cpu: move adjust_watchpoint_address to tcg_ops Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 14/22] cpu: move debug_check_watchpoint " Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 15/22] cpu: tcg_ops: move to tcg-cpu-ops.h, keep a pointer in CPUClass Claudio Fontana
2021-01-29  0:31   ` Richard Henderson
2021-01-29  9:00     ` Claudio Fontana
2021-01-29 19:19       ` Richard Henderson
2021-01-29 19:36         ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-01-30  9:40           ` Claudio Fontana
2021-02-02 10:01     ` Claudio Fontana
2021-02-02 10:27       ` Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 16/22] accel: extend AccelState and AccelClass to user-mode Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 17/22] accel: replace struct CpusAccel with AccelOpsClass Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 18/22] accel: introduce AccelCPUClass extending CPUClass Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28 13:03   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-01-28 13:22     ` Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28 16:08       ` Alex Bennée
2021-01-28 16:29         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2021-01-29  0:13           ` Richard Henderson
2021-01-30 10:53             ` Claudio Fontana
2021-01-30 19:01               ` Richard Henderson
2021-02-01  9:15                 ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-01  9:22                   ` Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 19/22] i386: split cpu accelerators from cpu.c, using AccelCPUClass Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 20/22] cpu: call AccelCPUClass::cpu_realizefn in cpu_exec_realizefn Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 21/22] hw/core/cpu: call qemu_init_vcpu in cpu_common_realizefn Claudio Fontana
2021-01-28  9:28 ` [PATCH v14 22/22] accel: introduce new accessor functions Claudio Fontana
2021-01-29  0:22 ` [PATCH v14 00/22] i386 cleanup PART 2 Richard Henderson

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