there are 2 use cases to deal with:
1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
For the 1st
drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
directly, which replaces:
typename = object_class_get_name(
cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
object_new(typename)
with
object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
or
cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
with
cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
translation and not needed code is removed.
For the 2nd
1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
is run and:
2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
typename = object_class_get_name(
cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
[parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
generic machine code one including parsing optional features
if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
in boadr's machine_init code.
Backports commit ba1ba5cca3962a9cc400c713c736b4fb8db1f38e from qemu
Considering that features are converted to global properties and
global properties are automatically applied to every new instance
of created CPU (at object_new() time), there is no point in
parsing cpu_model string every time a CPU created. So move
parsing outside CPU creation loop and do it only once.
Parsing also should be done before any CPU is created so that
features would affect the first CPU a well.
Backports commit 09f71b054a95161950a03fafc9023637929bd404 from qemu
Currently CPUClass->parse_features() is used to parse -cpu
features string and set properties on created CPU instances.
But considering that features specified by -cpu apply to every
created CPU instance, it doesn't make sense to parse the same
features string for every CPU created. It also makes every target
that cares about parsing features string explicitly call
CPUClass->parse_features() parser, which gets in a way if we
consider using generic device_add for CPU hotplug as device_add
has not a clue about CPU specific hooks.
Turns out we can use global properties mechanism to set
properties on every created CPU instance for a given type. That
way it's possible to convert CPU features into a set of global
properties for CPU type specified by -cpu cpu_model and common
Device.device_post_init() will apply them to CPU of given type
automatically regardless whether it's manually created CPU or CPU
created with help of device_add.
Backports commits 62a48a2a5798425997152dea3fc48708f9116c04 and
f313369fdb78f849ecbbd8e5d88f01ddf38786c8 from qemu
Backports commits 2994fd96d986578a342f2342501b4ad30f6d0a85,
701e3c78ce45fa630ffc6826c4b9a4218954bc7f, and
d1853231c60d16af78cf4d1608d043614bfbac0b from qemuu
Now we have a working '-cpu max', the linux-user-only
'any' CPU is pretty much the same thing, so implement it
that way.
For the moment we don't add any of the extra feature bits
to the system-emulation "max", because we don't set the
ID register bits we would need to to advertise those
features as present.
Backports commit a0032cc5427d0d396aa0a9383ad9980533448ea4 from qemu
Now all TYPE_MACHINE subclasses use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME to generate the
class name. So instead of requiring each subclass to set
MachineClass::name manually, we can now set it automatically at the
TYPE_MACHINE class_base_init() function.
Backports commit 98cec76a7076c4a38e16f1a9de170a7942b3be54 from qemu
Machine class names should use the "-machine" suffix to allow
class-name-based machine class lookup to work. Rename the arm virt
machine class using the MACHINE_TYPE_NAME macro.
Backports commit 64d3459c8586c8821970cbc99450340278507cfe from qemu
Add "secure" virt machine specific property to allow override of the
default secure state configuration. By default, when using the QEMU
-kernel command line argument, virt machines boot into NS/SVC. When using
the QEMU -bios command line argument, virt machines boot into S/SVC.
The secure state can be changed from the default specifying the secure
state as a machine property. For example, the below command line would disable
security extensions on a -kernel Linux boot:
aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64
-machine type=virt,secure=off
-kernel ...
Backports commit 083a58906cb32731dd98a93fcf451ec7718c0924 from qemu
Switch virt qemu machine support to use the newer object type, class, and
instance model. Added virt TypeInfo with static registration along with virt
specific class and machine structs. Also added virt class initialization
method.
Backports commit c29196904b2bad015edc553a5693c5c9e6f8177a from qemu
Commit 57cb38b included qapi/error.h into qemu/osdep.h to get the
Error typedef. Since then, we've moved to include qemu/osdep.h
everywhere. Its file comment explains: "To avoid getting into
possible circular include dependencies, this file should not include
any other QEMU headers, with the exceptions of config-host.h,
compiler.h, os-posix.h and os-win32.h, all of which are doing a
similar job to this file and are under similar constraints."
qapi/error.h doesn't do a similar job, and it doesn't adhere to
similar constraints: it includes qapi-types.h. That's in excess of
100KiB of crap most .c files don't actually need.
Add the typedef to qemu/typedefs.h, and include that instead of
qapi/error.h. Include qapi/error.h in .c files that need it and don't
get it now. Include qapi-types.h in qom/object.h for uint16List.
Update scripts/clean-includes accordingly. Update it further to match
reality: replace config.h by config-target.h, add sysemu/os-posix.h,
sysemu/os-win32.h. Update the list of includes in the qemu/osdep.h
comment quoted above similarly.
This reduces the number of objects depending on qapi/error.h from "all
of them" to less than a third. Unfortunately, the number depending on
qapi-types.h shrinks only a little. More work is needed for that one.
Backports commit da34e65cb4025728566d6504a99916f6e7e1dd6a from qemu
osdep.h has a few things which are really compiler specific;
move them to compiler.h, and include compiler.h from osdep.h.
Backports commit 4912086865083a008f4fb73173fd0ddf2206c4d9 from qemu
