Message ID | 20180614010446.30854-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au |
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Headers | show |
Series | Better handling of machine specific per-cpu information | expand |
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:04:39AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > It's moderately common for a machine type to need to keep track of > information that is specific to the platform it implements, but > per-cpu. > > While it could keep such information inside the MachineState, this > makes lookup from the CPUState awkward. So, this series adds a > standard way to stash machine-specific per-cpu information using a > void pointer in the PowerPCCPU object. The machine is responsible for > alloc()ing, free()ing and (if applicable) migrating this state. > > The meat of the series is the last two patches. The first 5 clean up > a number of minor uglies I encountered while implementing. Oops, realized 7/7 is totally broken on a KVM build. I'll send a new spin.