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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 2/3] machine: make MemoryHotplugState accessibl
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David Hildenbrand |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 2/3] machine: make MemoryHotplugState accessible via the machine |
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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:36:48 +0200 |
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On 23.04.2018 05:28, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 02:34:55PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Let's allow to query the MemoryHotplugState from the machine.
>>
>> This allows us to generically detect if a certain machine has support
>> for memory devices, and to generically manage it (find free address
>> range, plug/unplug a memory region).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
>
> So, we're creating a hook where it seems very likely that the only
> implementationss will be simply to retrieve the right field from the
> machine specific structure.
>
> So.. should we instead just move the hotplug_memory structure to the
> based MachineState type?
It allows us in patch nr. 3 to report different error messages.
"Not supported" vs. "Not enabled (maxmem)".
We could also handle that via a simple boolean flag inside of the
struct. What do you think?
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
[Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 1/3] pc-dimm: factor out MemoryDevice interface, David Hildenbrand, 2018/04/20
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] pc-dimm: factor out MemoryDevice interface, Pankaj Gupta, 2018/04/22
[Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 3/3] pc-dimm: factor out address space logic into MemoryDevice code, David Hildenbrand, 2018/04/20