pc: Clarify FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS usage comment
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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@ -746,17 +746,15 @@ static FWCfgState *bochs_bios_init(AddressSpace *as, PCMachineState *pcms)
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/* FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS is a bit confusing/problematic on x86:
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/* FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS is a bit confusing/problematic on x86:
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* SeaBIOS needs FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS for CPU hotplug, but the CPU hotplug
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* For machine types prior to 1.8, SeaBIOS needs FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS for
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* QEMU<->SeaBIOS interface is not based on the "CPU index", but on the APIC
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* building MPTable, ACPI MADT, ACPI CPU hotplug and ACPI SRAT table,
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* ID of hotplugged CPUs[1]. This means that FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS is not the
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* that tables are based on xAPIC ID and QEMU<->SeaBIOS interface
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* "maximum number of CPUs", but the "limit to the APIC ID values SeaBIOS
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* for CPU hotplug also uses APIC ID and not "CPU index".
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* may see".
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* This means that FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS is not the "maximum number of CPUs",
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* but the "limit to the APIC ID values SeaBIOS may see".
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* So, this means we must not use max_cpus, here, but the maximum possible
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* So for compatibility reasons with old BIOSes we are stuck with
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* APIC ID value, plus one.
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* "etc/max-cpus" actually being apic_id_limit
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* [1] The only kind of "CPU identifier" used between SeaBIOS and QEMU is
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* the APIC ID, not the "CPU index"
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fw_cfg_add_i16(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS, (uint16_t)pcms->apic_id_limit);
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fw_cfg_add_i16(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS, (uint16_t)pcms->apic_id_limit);
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fw_cfg_add_i64(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_RAM_SIZE, (uint64_t)ram_size);
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fw_cfg_add_i64(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_RAM_SIZE, (uint64_t)ram_size);
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