[libvirt] [PATCH v3 4/4] Build QEMU command line for pcihole64

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> QEMU commit 3984890 introduced the "pci-hole64-size" property,
> to i440FX-pcihost and q35-pcihost with a default setting of 2 GB.
> 
> Translate <pcihole64>x<pcihole64/> to:
> -global q35-pcihost.pci-hole64-size=x for q35 machines and
> -global i440FX-pcihost.pci-hole64-size=x for i440FX-based machines.
> 
> Error out on other machine types or if the size was specified
> but the pcihost device lacks 'pci-hole64-size' property.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990418
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                       | 14 ++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                       |  2 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../qemuxml2argv-pcihole64-none.args               |  4 ++
>  .../qemuxml2argv-pcihole64-q35.args                |  9 ++++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pcihole64.args |  5 ++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           | 10 ++++
>  7 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pcihole64-none.args
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pcihole64-q35.args
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pcihole64.args


> +    for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
> +        virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[i];
> +        if (cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI &&
> +            cont->opts.pciopts.pcihole64) {

Hmm, by doing  'if (cont->opts.pciopts.pcihole64)' we loose the ability
to set  pcihole64=0, to completely disable the PCI hole. Is this something
we need to worry about ? If so, then we'll need a way to distinguish  a
hole value of 0, from the "no attribute set" scenario.

Daniel
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