Subject: [PATCH v4 10/10] arm: use new irqchip parameter to create different vGIC types

From: [email-masked] (Will Deacon)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:13:47 +0100

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:16:18PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Currently we unconditionally create a virtual GICv2 in the guest.
> Add a --irqchip= parameter to let the user specify a different GIC
> type for the guest, when omitting this parameter it still defaults to
> --irqchip=gicv2.
> For now the only other supported type is --irqchip=gicv3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arm/aarch64/arm-cpu.c                    |  2 +-
>  arm/gic.c                                | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h |  9 ++++++++-
>  arm/kvm.c                                |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arm/aarch64/arm-cpu.c b/arm/aarch64/arm-cpu.c
> index f702b9e..3dc8ea3 100644
> --- a/arm/aarch64/arm-cpu.c
> +++ b/arm/aarch64/arm-cpu.c
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  static void generate_fdt_nodes(void *fdt, struct kvm *kvm, u32 gic_phandle)
>  {
>  	int timer_interrupts[4] = {13, 14, 11, 10};
> -	gic__generate_fdt_nodes(fdt, gic_phandle, IRQCHIP_GICV2);
> +	gic__generate_fdt_nodes(fdt, gic_phandle, kvm->cfg.arch.irqchip);
>  	timer__generate_fdt_nodes(fdt, kvm, timer_interrupts);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arm/gic.c b/arm/gic.c
> index efe4b42..ff56de7 100644
> --- a/arm/gic.c
> +++ b/arm/gic.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ static int gic_fd = -1;
>  static u64 gic_redists_base;
>  static u64 gic_redists_size;
>  
> +int irqchip_parser(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
> +{
> +	enum irqchip_type *type = opt->value;
> +
> +	*type = IRQCHIP_GICV2;

Pointless assignment?

> +	if (!strcmp(arg, "gicv2")) {
> +		*type = IRQCHIP_GICV2;
> +	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "gicv3")) {
> +		*type = IRQCHIP_GICV3;
> +	} else {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "irqchip: unknown type \"%s\"\n", arg);
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int gic__create_device(struct kvm *kvm, enum irqchip_type type)
>  {
>  	int err;
> diff --git a/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h b/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> index a8ebd94..9529881 100644
> --- a/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> +++ b/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> @@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ struct kvm_config_arch {
>  	unsigned int	force_cntfrq;
>  	bool		virtio_trans_pci;
>  	bool		aarch32_guest;
> +	enum irqchip_type irqchip;
>  };
>  
> +int irqchip_parser(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset);
> +
>  #define OPT_ARCH_RUN(pfx, cfg)							\
>  	pfx,									\
>  	ARM_OPT_ARCH_RUN(cfg)							\
> @@ -21,6 +24,10 @@ struct kvm_config_arch {
>  		     "updated to program CNTFRQ correctly*"),			\
>  	OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "force-pci", &(cfg)->virtio_trans_pci,		\
>  		    "Force virtio devices to use PCI as their default "		\
> -		    "transport"),
> +		    "transport"),						\
> +        OPT_CALLBACK('\0', "irqchip", &(cfg)->irqchip,				\
> +		     "[gicv2|gicv3]",					\
> +		     "type of interrupt controller to emulate in the guest",	\
> +		     irqchip_parser, NULL),

What happens if I don't pass this option at all?

Will