"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > This patchset moves all generation of ACPI tables > from guest BIOS to the hypervisor. > > Although ACPI tables come from a system BIOS on real hw, > it makes sense that the ACPI tables are coupled with the > virtual machine, since they have to abstract the x86 machine to > the OS's. > > Several future developments that this will enable: > - make it easier to use alternative firmware: > any firmware can just load the ACPI tables from QEMU. > case in point OVMF.
UEFI obviously can create ACPI tables already so I don't think this is a valid advantage. You could use this argument to say that QEMU should implement int13 or int10 too... > - make it easier to add more chipsets without bumping > into fw_cfg boundaries. But then you're just introducing a different boundary (the ACPI tables). fw_cfg is a cross-platform interface so it makes a lot more sense to add more features to it to better enumerate the underlying platform. > - describe a complex configuration > e.g. a bridged PCI topology to enable > acpi hotplug of devices behind a PCI bridge, > or for multi-root topology. This has strong analogies to generating device trees and is also a good reason why exposing this information via a common interface (fw_cfg) would be a good idea. > > If you look at the actual code: > i386: imports ACPI table generation code from seabios > you will see that it's more complex than it > needs to be, with lots of low level casts > and similar tricks. > > There's also a bit of duplication where we > already declare similar acpi structures in qemu. > > This is the result of code being a direct port from seabios. > Laszlo's patch (build ACPI MADT (APIC) for fw_cfg) > shows how this will be cleaned up by follow-up work. > I think it's best to do it in this order: port > code directly, and apply cleanups and reduce duplication > that results, on top. > This way it's much easier to see that we don't introduce > regressions. > > In particular, for a simple VM with piix, > I booted a guest on qemu with and without the > change, and verified that ACPI tables are > unchanged except for trivial pointer address changes. > > Such binary compatibility makes it easier to be > confident that this change won't break things. > > > So the idea is Laszlo's patchset (patches 2-7) will be rebased on top of > this patchset, this way we'll get small cleanup changes, where each step > is easy to verify as not changing anything from Guest POV. > > One issue this patchset creates is cross-version migration. > Specifically migration to qemu 1.5 will not work > if it happens while bios is accessing fw_cfg when we > migrate. > This is a general problem of the fw_cfg implementation, > I plan to extend fw_cfg implementation to address this. > > I plan to test q35 and numa setups before I submit > this for inclusion, in a similar way. > > git trees, for those interested in testing this: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu.git acpi > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/seabios.git acpi > > bios patchset will be posted tomorrow (need to clean up > the commit log a bit). I don't think it's a good idea to move BIOS functionality in QEMU. We don't frequently add firmware or chipsets so it seems like we're optimizing for an uncommon scenario here. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Laszlo Ersek (1): > refer to FWCfgState explicitly > > Michael S. Tsirkin (12): > apic: rename apic specific bitopts > hw/i386/pc.c: move IO_APIC_DEFAULT_ADDRESS to include/hw/i386/apic.h > fw_cfg: move typedef to qemu/typedefs.h > i386: add ACPI table files from seabios > acpi: add rules to compile ASL source > acpi: pre-compiled ASL files > range: add Range structure > i386: add bios linker/loader > i386: generate pc guest info > pc: pass PCI hole ranges to Guests > i386: ACPI table generation code from seabios > pc: reuse guest info for legacy fw cfg > > configure | 9 +- > hw/acpi/ich9.c | 7 +- > hw/acpi/piix4.c | 44 +- > hw/core/loader.c | 2 +- > hw/i386/Makefile.objs | 27 + > hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 685 ++++ > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl | 93 + > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-dbug.dsl | 41 + > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl | 51 + > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-isa.dsl | 117 + > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-pci-crs.dsl | 105 + > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl | 343 ++ > hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.hex.generated | 4409 ++++++++++++++++++++ > hw/i386/bios-linker-loader.c | 155 + > hw/i386/multiboot.c | 2 +- > hw/i386/multiboot.h | 4 +- > hw/i386/pc.c | 159 +- > hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 28 +- > hw/i386/pc_q35.c | 14 +- > hw/i386/q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl | 452 +++ > hw/i386/q35-acpi-dsdt.hex.generated | 7346 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > hw/i386/ssdt-misc.dsl | 73 + > hw/i386/ssdt-misc.hex.generated | 190 + > hw/i386/ssdt-pcihp.dsl | 51 + > hw/i386/ssdt-pcihp.hex.generated | 108 + > hw/i386/ssdt-proc.dsl | 63 + > hw/i386/ssdt-proc.hex.generated | 134 + > hw/intc/apic.c | 42 +- > hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c | 11 +- > hw/mips/mips_malta.c | 2 +- > hw/pci-host/q35.c | 5 + > hw/sparc/sun4m.c | 6 +- > hw/sparc64/sun4u.c | 2 +- > include/hw/acpi/ich9.h | 2 +- > include/hw/i386/acpi-build.h | 9 + > include/hw/i386/apic.h | 2 + > include/hw/i386/bios-linker-loader.h | 26 + > include/hw/i386/ich9.h | 3 +- > include/hw/i386/pc.h | 67 +- > include/hw/loader.h | 3 +- > include/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h | 2 +- > include/hw/pci-host/q35.h | 2 + > include/qemu/range.h | 22 + > include/qemu/typedefs.h | 2 + > scripts/acpi_extract.py | 362 ++ > scripts/acpi_extract_preprocess.py | 52 + > scripts/update-acpi.sh | 4 + > 47 files changed, 15248 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-build.c > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-dbug.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-isa.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-pci-crs.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.hex.generated > create mode 100644 hw/i386/bios-linker-loader.c > create mode 100644 hw/i386/q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/q35-acpi-dsdt.hex.generated > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-misc.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-misc.hex.generated > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-pcihp.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-pcihp.hex.generated > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-proc.dsl > create mode 100644 hw/i386/ssdt-proc.hex.generated > create mode 100644 include/hw/i386/acpi-build.h > create mode 100644 include/hw/i386/bios-linker-loader.h > create mode 100755 scripts/acpi_extract.py > create mode 100755 scripts/acpi_extract_preprocess.py > create mode 100644 scripts/update-acpi.sh > > -- > MST _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios