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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID
@ 2014-09-14  6:25 Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive Gal Hammer
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gal Hammer @ 2014-09-14  6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Gal Hammer, pbonzini, armbru

Hi,

A two parts patch to add a QEmu support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine
Generation ID device.

The first one add a new ACPI directive which allow to use a 16-bytes
buffer in an ACPI table. This buffer is for storing the VM's UUID.

The second is the ACPI tables changes and the actual device.

Your comment are welcomed.

Thanks,

    Gal.

V2: - Remove "-uuid" command line parameter.
    - Move device's description from SSDT to DDST table.
    - Add new "vmgenid" sysbus device.

Gal Hammer (2):
  i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
  i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device.

 default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak   |  1 +
 default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |  1 +
 hw/i386/acpi-build.c               | 23 ++++++++++-
 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl              | 37 +++++++++++++++++
 hw/misc/Makefile.objs              |  1 +
 hw/misc/vmgenid.c                  | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 ++
 scripts/acpi_extract.py            | 23 +++++++----
 8 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c

-- 
1.9.3

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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
  2014-09-14  6:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Gal Hammer
@ 2014-09-14  6:25 ` Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  8:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  8:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Paolo Bonzini
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gal Hammer @ 2014-09-14  6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Gal Hammer, pbonzini, armbru

Add a 16-bytes buffer to allow storing a 128-bit UUID value in an
ACPI table.

Signed-off-by: Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/acpi_extract.py | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/acpi_extract.py b/scripts/acpi_extract.py
index 22ea468..88314fc 100755
--- a/scripts/acpi_extract.py
+++ b/scripts/acpi_extract.py
@@ -139,13 +139,16 @@ def aml_name_string(offset):
         offset += 1
     return offset;
 
-# Given data offset, find 8 byte buffer offset
-def aml_data_buffer8(offset):
-    #0x08 NameOp NameString DataRef
-    expect = [0x11, 0x0B, 0x0A, 0x08]
+# Given data offset, find variable length byte buffer offset
+def aml_data_buffer(offset, length):
+    #0x11 PkgLength BufferSize ByteList
+    if (length > 63):
+        die( "Name offset 0x%x: expected an one byte PkgLength (length<=63)" %
+             (offset));
+    expect = [0x11, length+3, 0x0A, length]
     if (aml[offset:offset+4] != expect):
         die( "Name offset 0x%x: expected %s actual %s" %
-             (offset, aml[offset:offset+4], expect))
+             (offset, expect, aml[offset:offset+4]))
     return offset + len(expect)
 
 # Given data offset, find dword const offset
@@ -172,9 +175,9 @@ def aml_data_byte_const(offset):
              (offset, aml[offset]));
     return offset + 1;
 
-# Find name'd buffer8
-def aml_name_buffer8(offset):
-    return aml_data_buffer8(aml_name_string(offset) + 4)
+# Find name'd buffer
+def aml_name_buffer(offset, length):
+    return aml_data_buffer(aml_name_string(offset) + 4, length)
 
 # Given name offset, find dword const offset
 def aml_name_dword_const(offset):
@@ -308,7 +311,9 @@ for i in range(len(asl)):
         output[array] = aml
         continue
     if (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER8"):
-        offset = aml_name_buffer8(offset)
+        offset = aml_name_buffer(offset, 8)
+    elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16"):
+        offset = aml_name_buffer(offset, 16)
     elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_DWORD_CONST"):
         offset = aml_name_dword_const(offset)
     elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_WORD_CONST"):
-- 
1.9.3

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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device.
  2014-09-14  6:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive Gal Hammer
@ 2014-09-14  6:25 ` Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  8:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Paolo Bonzini
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gal Hammer @ 2014-09-14  6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Gal Hammer, pbonzini, armbru

Based on Microsoft's sepecifications (paper can be dowloaded from
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260709), add a device
description to the DSDT ACPI table.

The GUID is set using a new "vmgenid" device.

Signed-off-by: Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>

---
 default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak   |  1 +
 default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |  1 +
 hw/i386/acpi-build.c               | 23 ++++++++++-
 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl              | 37 +++++++++++++++++
 hw/misc/Makefile.objs              |  1 +
 hw/misc/vmgenid.c                  | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 ++
 7 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c

diff --git a/default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak b/default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak
index 8e08841..bd33c75 100644
--- a/default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak
+++ b/default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak
@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ CONFIG_IOAPIC=y
 CONFIG_ICC_BUS=y
 CONFIG_PVPANIC=y
 CONFIG_MEM_HOTPLUG=y
+CONFIG_VMGENID=y
diff --git a/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak b/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
index 66557ac..006fc7c 100644
--- a/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
+++ b/default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak
@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ CONFIG_IOAPIC=y
 CONFIG_ICC_BUS=y
 CONFIG_PVPANIC=y
 CONFIG_MEM_HOTPLUG=y
+CONFIG_VMGENID=y
diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
index 85e5834..153dadc 100644
--- a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
+++ b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
@@ -1390,15 +1390,34 @@ build_mcfg_q35(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, AcpiMcfgInfo *info)
 static void
 build_dsdt(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, AcpiMiscInfo *misc)
 {
-    AcpiTableHeader *dsdt;
+    int dsdt_start = table_data->len;
+    uint8_t *dsdt;
+    uint8_t *vm_gid_ptr;
+    uint32_t vm_gid_physical_address;
 
     assert(misc->dsdt_code && misc->dsdt_size);
 
     dsdt = acpi_data_push(table_data, misc->dsdt_size);
     memcpy(dsdt, misc->dsdt_code, misc->dsdt_size);
 
+    vm_gid_ptr = acpi_data_get_ptr(dsdt, misc->dsdt_size,
+                                   *dsdt_acpi_vm_gid, 16);
+    if (vm_generation_id(vm_gid_ptr)) {
+        vm_gid_physical_address = dsdt_start + *dsdt_acpi_vm_gid;
+        bios_linker_loader_add_pointer(linker, ACPI_BUILD_TABLE_FILE,
+                                       ACPI_BUILD_TABLE_FILE,
+                                       table_data,
+                                       dsdt + *dsdt_acpi_vm_gid_addr,
+                                       sizeof(uint32_t));
+    } else {
+        vm_gid_physical_address = 0;
+    }
+
+    ACPI_BUILD_SET_LE(dsdt, misc->dsdt_size,
+                      *dsdt_acpi_vm_gid_addr, 32, vm_gid_physical_address);
+
     memset(dsdt, 0, sizeof *dsdt);
-    build_header(linker, table_data, dsdt, "DSDT",
+    build_header(linker, table_data, (AcpiTableHeader *)dsdt, "DSDT",
                  misc->dsdt_size, 1);
 }
 
diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl b/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl
index 559f4b6..9015881 100644
--- a/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl
+++ b/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl
@@ -294,6 +294,43 @@ DefinitionBlock (
         }
     }
 
+/****************************************************************
+ * Virtual Machine Generation ID Device
+ ****************************************************************/
+    Scope(\_SB) {
+
+        Device(VMGI) {
+            Name(_HID, "QEMU0002")
+            Name(_CID, "VM_Gen_Counter")
+            Name(_DDN, "VM_Gen_Counter")
+
+            ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_DWORD_CONST dsdt_acpi_vm_gid_addr
+            Name(VGIA, 0x12345678)
+
+            ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 dsdt_acpi_vm_gid
+            Name(VGID, Buffer(16) {
+                0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
+                0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 })
+
+            Method(_STA, 0, NotSerialized) {
+                Store(VGIA, Local0)
+                If (LEqual(Local0, Zero)) {
+                    Return (0x00)
+                } Else {
+                    Return (0x0F)
+                }
+            }
+
+            Method(ADDR, 0, Serialized) {
+                Store(Package(2) { }, Local0)
+                Store(VGIA, Index(Local0, 0))
+                Store(0x0000, Index(Local0, 1))
+                return (Local0)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+
 #include "hw/acpi/pc-hotplug.h"
 #define CPU_STATUS_BASE PIIX4_CPU_HOTPLUG_IO_BASE
 #include "acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl"
diff --git a/hw/misc/Makefile.objs b/hw/misc/Makefile.objs
index 979e532..c18b800 100644
--- a/hw/misc/Makefile.objs
+++ b/hw/misc/Makefile.objs
@@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLAVIO) += slavio_misc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ZYNQ) += zynq_slcr.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_PVPANIC) += pvpanic.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_VMGENID) += vmgenid.o
diff --git a/hw/misc/vmgenid.c b/hw/misc/vmgenid.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76956d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/misc/vmgenid.c
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/*
+ *  Virtual Machine Generation ID Device
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat Inc.
+ *
+ *  Authors: Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "hw/i386/pc.h"
+#include "hw/sysbus.h"
+
+#define VMGENID_DEVICE "vmgenid"
+
+#define PROPERTY_UUID "uuid"
+
+#define VMGENID(obj) OBJECT_CHECK(VmGenIdState, (obj), VMGENID_DEVICE)
+
+typedef struct VmGenIdState {
+    SysBusDevice parent_obj;
+    char *guid_arg;
+} VmGenIdState;
+
+bool vm_generation_id(uint8_t id[16])
+{
+    Object *o = object_resolve_path_type("", VMGENID_DEVICE, NULL);
+    char *guid;
+
+    if (!o) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    guid = object_property_get_str(o, PROPERTY_UUID, NULL);
+    /* actual uuid validation was checked during realize. */
+    (void)qemu_uuid_parse(guid, id);
+    return true;
+}
+
+static void vmgenid_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
+{
+    VmGenIdState *s = VMGENID(dev);
+    uint8_t id[16];
+
+    if (!s->guid_arg) {
+        error_setg(errp, "missing uuid.");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    if (qemu_uuid_parse(s->guid_arg, id) < 0) {
+        error_setg(errp, "Fail to parse UUID string.");
+        return;
+    }
+}
+
+static Property vmgenid_device_properties[] = {
+    DEFINE_PROP_STRING(PROPERTY_UUID, VmGenIdState, guid_arg),
+    DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
+};
+
+static void vmgenid_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
+{
+    DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+
+    dc->realize = vmgenid_realize;
+    dc->props = vmgenid_device_properties;
+    dc->cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet = false;
+    set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC, dc->categories);
+}
+
+static const TypeInfo vmgenid_device_info = {
+    .name          = VMGENID_DEVICE,
+    .parent        = TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE,
+    .instance_size = sizeof(VmGenIdState),
+    .class_init    = vmgenid_class_init,
+};
+
+static void vmgenid_register_types(void)
+{
+    type_register_static(&vmgenid_device_info);
+}
+
+type_init(vmgenid_register_types)
+
diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
index a39cb42..b21c22e 100644
--- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
+++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ void pc_system_firmware_init(MemoryRegion *rom_memory,
 /* pvpanic.c */
 uint16_t pvpanic_port(void);
 
+/* vmgenid.c */
+bool vm_generation_id(uint8_t id[16]);
+
 /* e820 types */
 #define E820_RAM        1
 #define E820_RESERVED   2
-- 
1.9.3

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID
  2014-09-14  6:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device Gal Hammer
@ 2014-09-14  8:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
  2014-09-14 10:51   ` Gal Hammer
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2014-09-14  8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gal Hammer, qemu-devel; +Cc: armbru

Il 14/09/2014 08:25, Gal Hammer ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> A two parts patch to add a QEmu support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine
> Generation ID device.
> 
> The first one add a new ACPI directive which allow to use a 16-bytes
> buffer in an ACPI table. This buffer is for storing the VM's UUID.
> 
> The second is the ACPI tables changes and the actual device.
> 
> Your comment are welcomed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>     Gal.
> 
> V2: - Remove "-uuid" command line parameter.
>     - Move device's description from SSDT to DDST table.
>     - Add new "vmgenid" sysbus device.
> 
> Gal Hammer (2):
>   i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
>   i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device.
> 
>  default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak   |  1 +
>  default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |  1 +
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c               | 23 ++++++++++-
>  hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl              | 37 +++++++++++++++++
>  hw/misc/Makefile.objs              |  1 +
>  hw/misc/vmgenid.c                  | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 ++
>  scripts/acpi_extract.py            | 23 +++++++----
>  8 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c
> 

The idea is okay, but the device has to be added to the Q35 DSDT as
well.  If you just #included a file in the same style as
acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl, you would have a namespace clash between the PIIX
and Q35 DSDTs.  acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl can do it because it has no
ACPI_EXTRACT directives.

I think because of this, it is a bit simpler to add the device
optionally to the SSDT, similar to how the TPM is handled.

Paolo

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
  2014-09-14  6:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive Gal Hammer
@ 2014-09-14  8:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2014-09-14  8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gal Hammer, qemu-devel; +Cc: armbru

Il 14/09/2014 08:25, Gal Hammer ha scritto:
> Add a 16-bytes buffer to allow storing a 128-bit UUID value in an
> ACPI table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/acpi_extract.py | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/acpi_extract.py b/scripts/acpi_extract.py
> index 22ea468..88314fc 100755
> --- a/scripts/acpi_extract.py
> +++ b/scripts/acpi_extract.py
> @@ -139,13 +139,16 @@ def aml_name_string(offset):
>          offset += 1
>      return offset;
>  
> -# Given data offset, find 8 byte buffer offset
> -def aml_data_buffer8(offset):
> -    #0x08 NameOp NameString DataRef
> -    expect = [0x11, 0x0B, 0x0A, 0x08]
> +# Given data offset, find variable length byte buffer offset
> +def aml_data_buffer(offset, length):
> +    #0x11 PkgLength BufferSize ByteList
> +    if (length > 63):
> +        die( "Name offset 0x%x: expected an one byte PkgLength (length<=63)" %

s/an/a/

> +             (offset));
> +    expect = [0x11, length+3, 0x0A, length]
>      if (aml[offset:offset+4] != expect):
>          die( "Name offset 0x%x: expected %s actual %s" %
> -             (offset, aml[offset:offset+4], expect))
> +             (offset, expect, aml[offset:offset+4]))
>      return offset + len(expect)
>  
>  # Given data offset, find dword const offset
> @@ -172,9 +175,9 @@ def aml_data_byte_const(offset):
>               (offset, aml[offset]));
>      return offset + 1;
>  
> -# Find name'd buffer8
> -def aml_name_buffer8(offset):
> -    return aml_data_buffer8(aml_name_string(offset) + 4)
> +# Find name'd buffer
> +def aml_name_buffer(offset, length):
> +    return aml_data_buffer(aml_name_string(offset) + 4, length)
>  
>  # Given name offset, find dword const offset
>  def aml_name_dword_const(offset):
> @@ -308,7 +311,9 @@ for i in range(len(asl)):
>          output[array] = aml
>          continue
>      if (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER8"):
> -        offset = aml_name_buffer8(offset)
> +        offset = aml_name_buffer(offset, 8)
> +    elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16"):
> +        offset = aml_name_buffer(offset, 16)
>      elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_DWORD_CONST"):
>          offset = aml_name_dword_const(offset)
>      elif (directive == "ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_WORD_CONST"):
> 

Apart from the above grammatical nit,

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID
  2014-09-14  8:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID Paolo Bonzini
@ 2014-09-14 10:51   ` Gal Hammer
  2014-09-14 13:40     ` Paolo Bonzini
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gal Hammer @ 2014-09-14 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, qemu-devel; +Cc: armbru

On 14/09/2014 11:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 14/09/2014 08:25, Gal Hammer ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A two parts patch to add a QEmu support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine
>> Generation ID device.
>>
>> The first one add a new ACPI directive which allow to use a 16-bytes
>> buffer in an ACPI table. This buffer is for storing the VM's UUID.
>>
>> The second is the ACPI tables changes and the actual device.
>>
>> Your comment are welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>      Gal.
>>
>> V2: - Remove "-uuid" command line parameter.
>>      - Move device's description from SSDT to DDST table.
>>      - Add new "vmgenid" sysbus device.
>>
>> Gal Hammer (2):
>>    i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
>>    i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device.
>>
>>   default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak   |  1 +
>>   default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |  1 +
>>   hw/i386/acpi-build.c               | 23 ++++++++++-
>>   hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl              | 37 +++++++++++++++++
>>   hw/misc/Makefile.objs              |  1 +
>>   hw/misc/vmgenid.c                  | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 ++
>>   scripts/acpi_extract.py            | 23 +++++++----
>>   8 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c
>>
>
> The idea is okay, but the device has to be added to the Q35 DSDT as
> well.  If you just #included a file in the same style as
> acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl, you would have a namespace clash between the PIIX
> and Q35 DSDTs.  acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl can do it because it has no
> ACPI_EXTRACT directives.
>
> I think because of this, it is a bit simpler to add the device
> optionally to the SSDT, similar to how the TPM is handled.

Back to SSDT? Didn't you say something about migration issues that 
prevent me from using SSDT because the table's data is modified?

>
> Paolo
>

     Gal.

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID
  2014-09-14 10:51   ` Gal Hammer
@ 2014-09-14 13:40     ` Paolo Bonzini
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2014-09-14 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gal Hammer, qemu-devel; +Cc: armbru

Il 14/09/2014 12:51, Gal Hammer ha scritto:
>>
>> I think because of this, it is a bit simpler to add the device
>> optionally to the SSDT, similar to how the TPM is handled.
> 
> Back to SSDT? Didn't you say something about migration issues that
> prevent me from using SSDT because the table's data is modified?

I said you have to either:

1) Use the DSDT, with a dynamic _STA method.

2) Use the SSDT, and only add the device if the device is specified on
the command line.  This avoids the avoid migration issues.  At this
point the _STA method can be static.

Using the DSDT is possible, it's just that you have to do it as well for
Q35, and I think it is harder than moving it back to the SSDT.  Sorry
for not thinking earlier about the different chipsets.

Paolo

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