Add the Processor Properties Topology Table (PPTT) used to
describe CPU topology information to ACPI guests.
Note, a DT-boot Linux guest with a non-flat CPU topology will
see socket and core IDs being sequential integers starting
from zero, which is different from ACPI-boot Linux guest,
e.g. with -smp 4,sockets=2,cores=2,threads=1
a DT boot produces:
cpu: 0 package_id: 0 core_id: 0
cpu: 1 package_id: 0 core_id: 1
cpu: 2 package_id: 1 core_id: 0
cpu: 3 package_id: 1 core_id: 1
an ACPI boot produces:
cpu: 0 package_id: 36 core_id: 0
cpu: 1 package_id: 36 core_id: 1
cpu: 2 package_id: 96 core_id: 2
cpu: 3 package_id: 96 core_id: 3
This is due to several reasons:
1) DT cpu nodes do not have an equivalent field to what the PPTT
ACPI Processor ID must be, i.e. something equal to the MADT CPU
UID or equal to the UID of an ACPI processor container. In both
ACPI cases those are platform dependant IDs assigned by the
vendor.
2) While QEMU is the vendor for a guest, if the topology specifies
SMT (> 1 thread), then, with ACPI, it is impossible to assign a
core-id the same value as a package-id, thus it is not possible
to have package-id=0 and core-id=0. This is because package and
core containers must be in the same ACPI namespace and therefore
must have unique UIDs.
3) ACPI processor containers are not mandatorily required for PPTT
tables to be used and, due to the limitations of which IDs are
selected described above in (2), they are not helpful for QEMU,
so we don't build them with this patch. In the absence of them,
Linux assigns its own unique IDs. The maintainers have chosen not
to use counters from zero, but rather ACPI table offsets, which
explains why the numbers are so much larger than with DT.
4) When there is no SMT (threads=1) the core IDs for ACPI boot guests
match the logical CPU IDs, because these IDs must be equal to the
MADT CPU UID (as no processor containers are present), and QEMU
uses the logical CPU ID for these MADT IDs.
So in summary, with QEMU as the vendor for the guests, we simply
use sequential integers starting from zero for the non-leaf nodes
but with ID-valid flag unset, so that guest will ignore them and
use table offsets as unique container IDs. And we use logical CPU
IDs for the leaf nodes with the ID-valid flag set, which will be
consistent with MADT.
Currently the implementation of PPTT generation complies with ACPI
specification 5.2.29 (Revision 6.3). The 6.3 spec can be found at:
https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_3_May16.pdf
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211020142125.7516-6-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
===========
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Documentation
=============
Documentation can be found hosted online at
`<https://www.qemu.org/documentation/>`_. The documentation for the
current development version that is available at
`<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/>`_ is generated from the ``docs/``
folder in the source tree, and is built by `Sphinx
<https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>_`.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
.. code-block:: shell
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the `style section
<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/style.html>` of
the Developers Guide.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web.git
* `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
* `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses GitLab issues to track bugs. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
* `<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via GitLab.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_
ChangeLog
=========
For version history and release notes, please visit
`<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for
more detailed information.
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
* `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_
* `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_
* #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_