From: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: arm: "max" CPU class hierarchy changes possible?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:16:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2277fdf5-ec92-476a-8fe5-0d4eee23dfef@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e6a5d98-e022-0b39-5f30-92eb74491d3b@redhat.com>
On 3/11/21 5:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/03/21 16:02, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 14:27, Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> wrote:
>>> the "max" cpu in x86 and s390 is a class,
>>>
>>> and then "host" has "max" as parent.
>>>
>>> This would be a convenient setup for ARM too, as it would allow to put common code between kvm and tcg in the "max" class,
>>> and allow "host" to specialize the behavior for KVM (and in the future HVF probably).
>>>
>>> Would changing the class hierarchy this way be acceptable, cause any problems?
>>
>> It's not clear to me why 'host' would be a subtype of 'max':
>> that doesn't seem like an obvious relationship.
>
> On x86, "-cpu host" is essentially the same as "-cpu max" with the only
> difference that it errors out on TCG. So:
>
> - with TCG: "-cpu max" enables all that can be emulated, "-cpu host" fails
>
> - with KVM: "-cpu max" enables all that can be virtualized, "-cpu host"
> does the same
>
> Paolo
>
Maybe Peter you could clarify similarly what the intended meaning of "max" is on ARM?
TCG: for aarch64, the starting point seems to be Cortex-A57, and then lots of other features are added on top of it,
and for non-aarch64, the starting point seems to be Cortex-A15, plus "old-style VFP short-vector support".
Is the intention to enable all that can be emulated here too, like for X86?
KVM: (aarch64-only): aarch64_max_initfn():
The following comment in the code seems wrong to me:
/* -cpu max: if KVM is enabled, like -cpu host (best possible with this host); */
This is not exactly true:
"-cpu max" calls kvm_arm_set_cpu_features_from_host(), (which checks "dtb_compatible", and if not set gets the features from the host, if set ...?)
After that, calls aarch64_add_sve_properties() and then adds also "svw-max-vq". This code is common with TCG.
In the case of cpu host instead,
"-cpu host" calls kvm_arm_set_cpu_features_from_host(), same as max, then calls aarch64_add_sve_properties() but does NOT add "svw-max-vq".
Is this a bug?
Are "max" and "host" for KVM supposed to be the same like with x86?
Thanks,
Claudio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-11 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 14:27 arm: "max" CPU class hierarchy changes possible? Claudio Fontana
2021-03-11 15:02 ` Peter Maydell
2021-03-11 15:21 ` Claudio Fontana
2021-03-11 16:02 ` Peter Maydell
2021-03-11 16:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-11 17:16 ` Claudio Fontana [this message]
2021-03-11 17:35 ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-03-11 18:33 ` Peter Maydell
2021-03-11 19:10 ` Andrew Jones
2021-03-18 11:06 ` arm_cpu_post_init (Was: Re: arm: "max" CPU class hierarchy changes possible?) Claudio Fontana
2021-03-18 11:32 ` Claudio Fontana
2021-03-18 12:08 ` Andrew Jones
2021-03-18 12:42 ` Claudio Fontana
2021-03-18 12:59 ` Andrew Jones
2021-03-18 13:10 ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-03-19 8:19 ` Claudio Fontana
2021-03-19 8:23 ` Claudio Fontana
2021-03-19 8:33 ` Claudio Fontana
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