On 11/13/15 13:21, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:23:54AM +0800, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> > On 11/11/15 22:27, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> > > On 11/11/15 12:16, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > > diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
> > > > > index 2f8f396..858ed69 100644
> > > > > --- a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
> > > > > +++ b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
> > > > > @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ static void pc_q35_2_4_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
> > > > > pc_q35_2_5_machine_options(m);
> > > > > m->alias = NULL;
> > > > > pcmc->broken_reserved_end = true;
> > > > > + pcmc->save_tsc_khz = false;
> > > >
> > > > I had suggested the PCMachineClass field, but now I've been thinking:
> > > > all other fields related to tsc_khz are in X86CPU, so I believe this
> > > > belongs to X86CPU too. It could be a simple X86CPU property set by
> > > > PC_COMPAT_2_4.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Reasonable, will update in the next version.
> >
> > Or maybe no ...
> >
> > I think there is still a problem to set a X86CPU property in
> > PC_COMPAT_2_4:
> >
> > if I create a property for save_tsc_khz by adding
> > DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("save-tsc-freq", X86CPU, save_tsc_khz, true)
> > in x86_cpu_properties and add
> > {
> > .driver = TYPE_X86_CPU,
> > .property = "save-tsc-freq",
> > .value = "off",
> > }
> > in PC_COMPAT_2_4, then "save-tsc-freq" will also become a
> > user-visible cpu option. But we agreed on keeping it as an
> > internal flag in the previous discussion.
> >
> > Any other ways to set a property in PC_COMPAT_* while keeping that
> > property internal?
>
> I don't think making it internal is a requirement. It just make
> things simpler because it allowed us to postpone decisions about
> the user-visible parts.
>
> ...which seems to be a good reason to keep it on PCMachineClass
> by now, if you prefer it that way. The subsection code is already
> on machine.c and not on cpu.c, anyway.
>
Thanks, I'll keep it in PCMachineClass in the next version.
Haozhong
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