Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 14/19] xen: introduce xenpv bus and a dummy pvcpu device

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/01/14 12:28, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/06/2014 09:46 AM, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
>> On 05/01/14 22:52, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/02/2014 03:43 PM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>>> Since Xen PVH guests doesn't have ACPI, we need to create a dummy
>>>> bus so top level Xen devices can attach to it (instead of
>>>> attaching directly to the nexus) and a pvcpu device that will be used
>>>> to fill the pcpu->pc_device field.
>>>> ---
>>>>    sys/conf/files.amd64 |    1 +
>>>>    sys/conf/files.i386  |    1 +
>>>>    sys/x86/xen/xenpv.c  |  155
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>> I think it makes more sense to have 2 files: one for xenpv bus and one
>>> for a dummy pvcpu device. It would allow us to move xenpv bus to common
>>> code (sys/xen or sys/dev/xen).
>>
>> Ack. I wasn't thinking other arches will probably use the xenpv bus but
>> not the dummy cpu device. Would you agree to leave xenpv bus inside
>> x86/xen for now and move the dummy PV cpu device to dev/xen/pvcpu/?
> 
> As we will attach every xen device to xenpv, it makes more sense to have
> xenpv bus used on ARM. It will avoid duplication code and keep it nicer.
> 
> I'm fine with this solution for now. I will update/move the code when I
> will send the patch series to support FreeBSD on Xen on ARM.
> 
>>>
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +static int
>>>> +xenpv_probe(device_t dev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +
>>>> +    device_set_desc(dev, "Xen PV bus");
>>>> +    device_quiet(dev);
>>>> +    return (0);
>>>
>>> As I understand, 0 means I can "handle" the current device, in this case
>>> if a device is probing, because it doesn't have yet a driver, we will
>>> use xenpv and end up with 2 (or even more) xenpv buses.
>>>
>>> As we only want to probe xenpv bus once, when the bus was added
>>> manually, returning BUS_PROBE_NO_WILDCARD would suit better.
>>>
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>> +static int
>>>> +xenpvcpu_probe(device_t dev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +
>>>> +    device_set_desc(dev, "Xen PV CPU");
>>>> +    return (0);
>>>
>>> Same here: BUS_PROBE_NOWILDCARD.
>>
>> Ack for both, will change it to BUS_PROBE_NOWILDCARD. While at it, we
>> should also change xenstore probe function to return
>> BUS_PROBE_NOWILDCARD.
>>
> 
> Right, I have a patch for xenstore. Do you want me to send it?

Sure, send it!


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