RE: [PATCH 2/2] xen: cleanup unrealized flash devices

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> Sent: 30 June 2020 16:09
> To: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>;
> Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>; Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>; Jason Andryuk
> <jandryuk@gmail.com>; Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>; Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: cleanup unrealized flash devices
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:18:41PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> >
> > The generic pc_machine_initfn() calls pc_system_flash_create() which creates
> > 'system.flash0' and 'system.flash1' devices. These devices are then realized
> > by pc_system_flash_map() which is called from pc_system_firmware_init() which
> > itself is called via pc_memory_init(). The latter however is not called when
> > xen_enable() is true and hence the following assertion fails:
> >
> > qemu-system-i386: hw/core/qdev.c:439: qdev_assert_realized_properly:
> > Assertion `dev->realized' failed
> >
> > These flash devices are unneeded when using Xen so this patch avoids the
> > assertion by simply removing them using pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused().
> >
> > Reported-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
> > Fixes: ebc29e1beab0 ("pc: Support firmware configuration with -blockdev")
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> > Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> 
> I think I would add:
> 
> Fixes: dfe8c79c4468 ("qdev: Assert onboard devices all get realized properly")
> 
> as this is the first commit where the unrealized flash devices are an
> issue.

OK.

  Paul

> 
> --
> Anthony PERARD