Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment

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Andreas Färber <afaerber@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am 27.08.2012 08:28, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> This adds PCI device assignment for i386 targets using the classic KVM
>> interfaces. This version is 100% identical to what is being maintained
>> in qemu-kvm for several years and is supported by libvirt as well. It is
>> expected to remain relevant for another couple of years until kernels
>> without full-features and performance-wise equivalent VFIO support are
>> obsolete.
>> 
>> A refactoring to-do that should be done in-tree is to model MSI and
>> MSI-X support via the generic PCI layer, similar to what VFIO is already
>> doing for MSI-X. This should improve the correctness and clean up the
>> code from duplicate logic.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  hw/kvm/Makefile.objs |    2 +-
>>  hw/kvm/pci-assign.c  | 1929 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 1930 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
> [...]
>> diff --git a/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c b/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..9cce02c
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,1929 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (c) 2007, Neocleus Corporation.
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>> + * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
>> + * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> The downside of accepting this into qemu.git is that it gets us a huge
> blob of GPLv2-only code without history of contributors for GPLv2+
> relicensing...

That is 100% okay.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
>> + * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
>> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
>> + * more details.
>> + *
>> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
>> + * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
>> + * Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
>
> (Expect the usual GNU address reminder here.)
>
>> + *
>> + *
>> + *  Assign a PCI device from the host to a guest VM.
>> + *
>> + *  Adapted for KVM by Qumranet.
>> + *
>> + *  Copyright (c) 2007, Neocleus, Alex Novik (alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> + *  Copyright (c) 2007, Neocleus, Guy Zana (guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> + *  Copyright (C) 2008, Qumranet, Amit Shah (amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> + *  Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat, Amit Shah (amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> + *  Copyright (C) 2008, IBM, Muli Ben-Yehuda (muli@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> + */
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <unistd.h>
>> +#include <sys/io.h>
>> +#include <sys/mman.h>
>> +#include <sys/types.h>
>> +#include <sys/stat.h>
>> +#include "hw/hw.h"
>> +#include "hw/pc.h"
>> +#include "qemu-error.h"
>> +#include "console.h"
>> +#include "hw/loader.h"
>> +#include "monitor.h"
>> +#include "range.h"
>> +#include "sysemu.h"
>> +#include "hw/pci.h"
>> +#include "hw/msi.h"
>
>> +#include "kvm_i386.h"
>
> Am I correct to understand we compile this only for i386 / x86_64?
> (apic.o in kvm/Makefile.objs hints in that direction) You may want to
> update the description in the comment above accordingly, also mentioning
> that this is some deprecated backwards-compatibility thing.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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