commit 33cd52b5d7 unset
cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet in TYPE_SYSBUS, making all
sysbus devices appear on "-device help" and lack the "no-user"
flag in "info qdm".
To fix this, we can set user_creatable=false by default on
TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE, but this requires setting
user_creatable=true explicitly on the sysbus devices that
actually work with -device.
Fortunately today we have just a few has_dynamic_sysbus=1
machines: virt, pc-q35-*, ppce500, and spapr.
virt, ppce500, and spapr have extra checks to ensure just a few
device types can be instantiated:
* virt supports only TYPE_VFIO_CALXEDA_XGMAC, TYPE_VFIO_AMD_XGBE.
* ppce500 supports only TYPE_ETSEC_COMMON.
* spapr supports only TYPE_SPAPR_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE.
This patch sets user_creatable=true explicitly on those 4 device
classes.
Now, the more complex cases:
pc-q35-*: q35 has no sysbus device whitelist yet (which is a
separate bug). We are in the process of fixing it and building a
sysbus whitelist on q35, but in the meantime we can fix the
"-device help" and "info qdm" bugs mentioned above. Also, despite
not being strictly necessary for fixing the q35 bug, reducing the
list of user_creatable=true devices will help us be more
confident when building the q35 whitelist.
xen: We also have a hack at xen_set_dynamic_sysbus(), that sets
has_dynamic_sysbus=true at runtime when using the Xen
accelerator. This hack is only used to allow xen-backend devices
to be dynamically plugged/unplugged.
This means today we can use -device with the following 22 device
types, that are the ones compiled into the qemu-system-x86_64 and
qemu-system-i386 binaries:
* allwinner-ahci
* amd-iommu
* cfi.pflash01
* esp
* fw_cfg_io
* fw_cfg_mem
* generic-sdhci
* hpet
* intel-iommu
* ioapic
* isabus-bridge
* kvmclock
* kvm-ioapic
* kvmvapic
* SUNW,fdtwo
* sysbus-ahci
* sysbus-fdc
* sysbus-ohci
* unimplemented-device
* virtio-mmio
* xen-backend
* xen-sysdev
This patch adds user_creatable=true explicitly to those devices,
temporarily, just to keep 100% compatibility with existing
behavior of q35. Subsequent patches will remove
user_creatable=true from the devices that are really not meant to
user-creatable on any machine, and remove the FIXME comment from
the ones that are really supposed to be user-creatable. This is
being done in separate patches because we still don't have an
obvious list of devices that will be whitelisted by q35, and I
would like to get each device reviewed individually.
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Cc: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Yi Min Zhao <zyimin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170503203604.31462-3-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[ehabkost: Small changes at sysbus_device_class_init() comments]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
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near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
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========
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mkdir build
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../configure
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