[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly

Igor Mammedov posted 6 patches 8 years, 2 months ago
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 2 months ago
there are 2 use cases to deal with:
  1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
  2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
     default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly

For the 1st
  drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
  directly, which replaces:
     typename = object_class_get_name(
           cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
     object_new(typename)
  with
     object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
  or
     cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
  with
     cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)

as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
translation and not needed code is removed.

For the 2nd
 1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
 2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
    is run and:
    2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
       typename = object_class_get_name(
           cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
       [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]

    2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
         2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
         create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
generic machine code one including parsing optional features
if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
in boadr's machine_init code.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
CC: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com> 
CC: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> 
CC: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com> 
CC: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> 
CC: Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me> 
CC: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> 
CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org 
---
 include/hw/arm/armv7m.h        |  2 +-
 include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h    |  2 +-
 include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h |  2 +-
 target/arm/cpu.h               |  3 +++
 hw/arm/armv7m.c                | 40 +++++-------------------------------
 hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c            | 13 +++++-------
 hw/arm/collie.c                | 10 +++------
 hw/arm/exynos4210.c            |  6 +-----
 hw/arm/gumstix.c               |  5 +++--
 hw/arm/highbank.c              | 10 ++++-----
 hw/arm/integratorcp.c          | 30 ++-------------------------
 hw/arm/mainstone.c             |  9 ++++-----
 hw/arm/mps2.c                  | 17 +++++++---------
 hw/arm/musicpal.c              |  7 ++-----
 hw/arm/netduino2.c             |  2 +-
 hw/arm/nseries.c               |  4 +++-
 hw/arm/omap1.c                 |  7 ++-----
 hw/arm/omap2.c                 |  4 ++--
 hw/arm/omap_sx1.c              |  5 ++++-
 hw/arm/palm.c                  |  5 +++--
 hw/arm/pxa2xx.c                | 10 ++++-----
 hw/arm/realview.c              | 25 +++++------------------
 hw/arm/spitz.c                 | 12 ++++++-----
 hw/arm/stellaris.c             | 16 +++++++--------
 hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c         |  4 ++--
 hw/arm/strongarm.c             | 10 +++------
 hw/arm/tosa.c                  |  4 ----
 hw/arm/versatilepb.c           | 15 +++-----------
 hw/arm/vexpress.c              | 32 +++++++++--------------------
 hw/arm/virt.c                  | 46 +++++++++---------------------------------
 hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c           | 10 ++-------
 hw/arm/z2.c                    |  9 +++------
 target/arm/cpu.c               |  2 +-
 33 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
index a9b3f2a..8496743 100644
--- a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
+++ b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef struct ARMv7MState {
     MemoryRegion container;
 
     /* Properties */
-    char *cpu_model;
+    char *cpu_type;
     /* MemoryRegion the board provides to us (with its devices, RAM, etc) */
     MemoryRegion *board_memory;
 } ARMv7MState;
diff --git a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
index 0b88baa..f26914a 100644
--- a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
+++ b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ typedef struct AspeedSoCState {
 
 typedef struct AspeedSoCInfo {
     const char *name;
-    const char *cpu_model;
+    const char *cpu_type;
     uint32_t silicon_rev;
     hwaddr sdram_base;
     uint64_t sram_size;
diff --git a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
index e2dce11..922a733 100644
--- a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
+++ b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ typedef struct STM32F205State {
     SysBusDevice parent_obj;
     /*< public >*/
 
-    char *cpu_model;
+    char *cpu_type;
 
     ARMv7MState armv7m;
 
diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.h b/target/arm/cpu.h
index 5932ef1..3e1ba19 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu.h
+++ b/target/arm/cpu.h
@@ -2002,6 +2002,9 @@ static inline bool arm_excp_unmasked(CPUState *cs, unsigned int excp_idx,
 
 #define cpu_init(cpu_model) cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model)
 
+#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX "-" TYPE_ARM_CPU
+#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME(name) (name ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX)
+
 #define cpu_signal_handler cpu_arm_signal_handler
 #define cpu_list arm_cpu_list
 
diff --git a/hw/arm/armv7m.c b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
index c8a11f2..9c45f26 100644
--- a/hw/arm/armv7m.c
+++ b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
@@ -163,10 +163,6 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     SysBusDevice *sbd;
     Error *err = NULL;
     int i;
-    char **cpustr;
-    ObjectClass *oc;
-    const char *typename;
-    CPUClass *cc;
 
     if (!s->board_memory) {
         error_setg(errp, "memory property was not set");
@@ -175,29 +171,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 
     memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(&s->container, 0, s->board_memory, -1);
 
-    cpustr = g_strsplit(s->cpu_model, ",", 2);
-
-    oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
-    if (!oc) {
-        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", cpustr[0]);
-        g_strfreev(cpustr);
-        return;
-    }
-
-    cc = CPU_CLASS(oc);
-    typename = object_class_get_name(oc);
-    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
-    g_strfreev(cpustr);
-    if (err) {
-        error_propagate(errp, err);
-        return;
-    }
-
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(typename));
-    if (!s->cpu) {
-        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", s->cpu_model);
-        return;
-    }
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(s->cpu_type));
 
     object_property_set_link(OBJECT(s->cpu), OBJECT(&s->container), "memory",
                              &error_abort);
@@ -253,7 +227,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 }
 
 static Property armv7m_properties[] = {
-    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", ARMv7MState, cpu_model),
+    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", ARMv7MState, cpu_type),
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
 };
 
@@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
    Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
 
 DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
-                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
+                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
 {
     DeviceState *armv7m;
 
-    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
-        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
-    }
-
     armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
     qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
-    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
+    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
     object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
                                      "memory", &error_abort);
-    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
+    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
     qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
 
     armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);
diff --git a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
index 5529024..cd7bb94 100644
--- a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
+++ b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static const char *aspeed_soc_ast2500_typenames[] = {
 static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
     {
         .name         = "ast2400-a0",
-        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
+        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
         .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
         .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
         .sram_size    = 0x8000,
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
         .wdts_num     = 2,
     }, {
         .name         = "ast2400-a1",
-        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
+        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
         .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A1_SILICON_REV,
         .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
         .sram_size    = 0x8000,
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
         .wdts_num     = 2,
     }, {
         .name         = "ast2400",
-        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
+        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
         .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
         .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
         .sram_size    = 0x8000,
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
         .wdts_num     = 2,
     }, {
         .name         = "ast2500-a1",
-        .cpu_model    = "arm1176",
+        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1176"),
         .silicon_rev  = AST2500_A1_SILICON_REV,
         .sdram_base   = AST2500_SDRAM_BASE,
         .sram_size    = 0x9000,
@@ -128,13 +128,10 @@ static void aspeed_soc_init(Object *obj)
 {
     AspeedSoCState *s = ASPEED_SOC(obj);
     AspeedSoCClass *sc = ASPEED_SOC_GET_CLASS(s);
-    char *cpu_typename;
     int i;
 
-    cpu_typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, sc->info->cpu_model);
-    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), cpu_typename);
+    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), sc->info->cpu_type);
     object_property_add_child(obj, "cpu", OBJECT(&s->cpu), NULL);
-    g_free(cpu_typename);
 
     object_initialize(&s->vic, sizeof(s->vic), TYPE_ASPEED_VIC);
     object_property_add_child(obj, "vic", OBJECT(&s->vic), NULL);
diff --git a/hw/arm/collie.c b/hw/arm/collie.c
index 2e69531..f043cd8 100644
--- a/hw/arm/collie.c
+++ b/hw/arm/collie.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "hw/block/flash.h"
 #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
-#include "qom/cpu.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
     .loader_start = SA_SDCS0,
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
 
 static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -35,11 +34,7 @@ static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
     DriveInfo *dinfo;
     MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "sa1110";
-    }
-
-    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
+    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, machine->cpu_type);
 
     dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
     pflash_cfi01_register(SA_CS0, NULL, "collie.fl1", 0x02000000,
@@ -64,6 +59,7 @@ static void collie_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)";
     mc->init = collie_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("sa1110");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("collie", collie_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
index f9e79f3..81f12e3 100644
--- a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
+++ b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
@@ -169,15 +169,11 @@ Exynos4210State *exynos4210_init(MemoryRegion *system_mem)
     Exynos4210State *s = g_new(Exynos4210State, 1);
     qemu_irq gate_irq[EXYNOS4210_NCPUS][EXYNOS4210_IRQ_GATE_NINPUTS];
     SysBusDevice *busdev;
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
     DeviceState *dev;
     int i, n;
 
-    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "cortex-a9");
-    assert(cpu_oc);
-
     for (n = 0; n < EXYNOS4210_NCPUS; n++) {
-        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
+        Object *cpuobj = object_new(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9"));
 
         /* By default A9 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not currently
          * support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before realization.
diff --git a/hw/arm/gumstix.c b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
index d59d9ba..2b66bb7 100644
--- a/hw/arm/gumstix.c
+++ b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
 #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 static const int sector_len = 128 * 1024;
 
@@ -86,7 +87,6 @@ static void connex_init(MachineState *machine)
 
 static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     PXA2xxState *cpu;
     DriveInfo *dinfo;
     int be;
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
     uint32_t verdex_rom = 0x02000000;
     uint32_t verdex_ram = 0x10000000;
 
-    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, cpu_model ?: "pxa270-c0");
+    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, machine->cpu_type);
 
     dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
     if (!dinfo && !qtest_enabled()) {
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static void verdex_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Gumstix Verdex (PXA270)";
     mc->init = verdex_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo verdex_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
--- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
+++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
 static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
 {
     ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
 
     switch (machine_id) {
     case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
+        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
         break;
     case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
+        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
         break;
+    default:
+        assert(0);
     }
 
     for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
-        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
         Object *cpuobj;
         ARMCPU *cpu;
 
-        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
+        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
         cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
 
         object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,
diff --git a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
index d9530ed..44d247e 100644
--- a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
+++ b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
@@ -572,46 +572,19 @@ static struct arm_boot_info integrator_binfo = {
 static void integratorcp_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
     ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
-    char **cpustr;
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
-    CPUClass *cc;
     Object *cpuobj;
     ARMCPU *cpu;
-    const char *typename;
     MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
     MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     MemoryRegion *ram_alias = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     qemu_irq pic[32];
     DeviceState *dev, *sic, *icp;
     int i;
-    Error *err = NULL;
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "arm926";
-    }
-
-    cpustr = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 2);
-
-    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
-    if (!cpu_oc) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    typename = object_class_get_name(cpu_oc);
-
-    cc = CPU_CLASS(cpu_oc);
-    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
-    g_strfreev(cpustr);
-    if (err) {
-        error_report_err(err);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    cpuobj = object_new(typename);
+    cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
 
     /* By default ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
      * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
@@ -681,6 +654,7 @@ static void integratorcp_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)";
     mc->init = integratorcp_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("integratorcp", integratorcp_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/mainstone.c b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
index fb268e6..2b13d30 100644
--- a/hw/arm/mainstone.c
+++ b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "hw/sysbus.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
 #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 /* Device addresses */
 #define MST_FPGA_PHYS	0x08000000
@@ -121,13 +122,10 @@ static void mainstone_common_init(MemoryRegion *address_space_mem,
     int i;
     int be;
     MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
-
-    if (!cpu_model)
-        cpu_model = "pxa270-c5";
 
     /* Setup CPU & memory */
-    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
+    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size,
+                      machine->cpu_type);
     memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "mainstone.rom", MAINSTONE_ROM,
                            &error_fatal);
     memory_region_set_readonly(rom, true);
@@ -196,6 +194,7 @@ static void mainstone2_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "Mainstone II (PXA27x)";
     mc->init = mainstone_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("mainstone", mainstone2_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/mps2.c b/hw/arm/mps2.c
index abb0ab6..aeaad80 100644
--- a/hw/arm/mps2.c
+++ b/hw/arm/mps2.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ typedef enum MPS2FPGAType {
 typedef struct {
     MachineClass parent;
     MPS2FPGAType fpga_type;
-    const char *cpu_model;
     uint32_t scc_id;
 } MPS2MachineClass;
 
@@ -107,14 +106,12 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
     MPS2MachineState *mms = MPS2_MACHINE(machine);
     MPS2MachineClass *mmc = MPS2_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
     MemoryRegion *system_memory = get_system_memory();
+    MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
     DeviceState *armv7m, *sccdev;
 
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = mmc->cpu_model;
-    }
-
-    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_model, mmc->cpu_model) != 0) {
-        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s", mmc->cpu_model);
+    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_type, mc->default_cpu_type) != 0) {
+        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s",
+                     mc->default_cpu_type);
         exit(1);
     }
 
@@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
     default:
         g_assert_not_reached();
     }
-    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", machine->cpu_model);
+    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", machine->cpu_type);
     object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), OBJECT(system_memory),
                              "memory", &error_abort);
     object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), true, "realized",
@@ -339,7 +336,7 @@ static void mps2_an385_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN385 FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
     mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN385;
-    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
     mmc->scc_id = 0x41040000 | (385 << 4);
 }
 
@@ -350,7 +347,7 @@ static void mps2_an511_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN511 DesignStart FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
     mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN511;
-    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
     mmc->scc_id = 0x4104000 | (511 << 4);
 }
 
diff --git a/hw/arm/musicpal.c b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
index 64c8e09..9b2000d 100644
--- a/hw/arm/musicpal.c
+++ b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
@@ -1570,7 +1570,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info musicpal_binfo = {
 
 static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -1590,10 +1589,7 @@ static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
     MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     MemoryRegion *sram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "arm926";
-    }
-    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model));
+    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(machine->cpu_type));
 
     /* For now we use a fixed - the original - RAM size */
     memory_region_allocate_system_memory(ram, NULL, "musicpal.ram",
@@ -1714,6 +1710,7 @@ static void musicpal_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)";
     mc->init = musicpal_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("musicpal", musicpal_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/netduino2.c b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
index 3cfe332..4790824 100644
--- a/hw/arm/netduino2.c
+++ b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static void netduino2_init(MachineState *machine)
     DeviceState *dev;
 
     dev = qdev_create(NULL, TYPE_STM32F205_SOC);
-    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-model", "cortex-m3");
+    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-type", ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3"));
     object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(dev), true, "realized", &error_fatal);
 
     armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), machine->kernel_filename,
diff --git a/hw/arm/nseries.c b/hw/arm/nseries.c
index 503a3b6..b41850e 100644
--- a/hw/arm/nseries.c
+++ b/hw/arm/nseries.c
@@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ static void n8x0_init(MachineState *machine,
     struct n800_s *s = (struct n800_s *) g_malloc0(sizeof(*s));
     int sdram_size = binfo->ram_size;
 
-    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_model);
+    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
 
     /* Setup peripherals
      *
@@ -1425,6 +1425,7 @@ static void n800_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420)";
     mc->init = n800_init;
     mc->default_boot_order = "";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo n800_type = {
@@ -1440,6 +1441,7 @@ static void n810_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420)";
     mc->init = n810_init;
     mc->default_boot_order = "";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo n810_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/omap1.c b/hw/arm/omap1.c
index 04e65ce..b3e7625 100644
--- a/hw/arm/omap1.c
+++ b/hw/arm/omap1.c
@@ -3850,7 +3850,7 @@ static int omap_validate_tipb_mpui_addr(struct omap_mpu_state_s *s,
 
 struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
                 unsigned long sdram_size,
-                const char *core)
+                const char *cpu_type)
 {
     int i;
     struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
@@ -3858,12 +3858,9 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
     DriveInfo *dinfo;
     SysBusDevice *busdev;
 
-    if (!core)
-        core = "ti925t";
-
     /* Core */
     s->mpu_model = omap310;
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core));
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
     s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
     s->sram_size = OMAP15XX_SRAM_SIZE;
 
diff --git a/hw/arm/omap2.c b/hw/arm/omap2.c
index 5821477..3f6076e 100644
--- a/hw/arm/omap2.c
+++ b/hw/arm/omap2.c
@@ -2250,7 +2250,7 @@ static const struct dma_irq_map omap2_dma_irq_map[] = {
 
 struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
                 unsigned long sdram_size,
-                const char *core)
+                const char *cpu_type)
 {
     struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
     qemu_irq dma_irqs[4];
@@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
 
     /* Core */
     s->mpu_model = omap2420;
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core ?: "arm1136-r2"));
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
     s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
     s->sram_size = OMAP242X_SRAM_SIZE;
 
diff --git a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
index 9809106..1236ec1 100644
--- a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
+++ b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
 #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
 /* Siemens SX1 Cellphone V1 */
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ static void sx1_init(MachineState *machine, const int version)
     }
 
     mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space, sx1_binfo.ram_size,
-                           machine->cpu_model);
+                           machine->cpu_type);
 
     /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
     memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "omap_sx1.flash0-0", flash_size,
@@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v2_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2";
     mc->init = sx1_init_v2;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v2_type = {
@@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v1_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1";
     mc->init = sx1_init_v1;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v1_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/palm.c b/hw/arm/palm.c
index 64cf8ca..862f048 100644
--- a/hw/arm/palm.c
+++ b/hw/arm/palm.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "hw/devices.h"
 #include "hw/loader.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 static uint32_t static_readb(void *opaque, hwaddr offset)
 {
@@ -195,7 +196,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info palmte_binfo = {
 
 static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
     MemoryRegion *flash = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     MemoryRegion *cs = g_new(MemoryRegion, 4);
 
-    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, cpu_model);
+    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
 
     /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
     memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "palmte.flash", flash_size,
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ static void palmte_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310)";
     mc->init = palmte_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("cheetah", palmte_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
index c16657d..79b317a 100644
--- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
+++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
@@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
 
 /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
 PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
-                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
+                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
 {
     PXA2xxState *s;
     int i;
     DriveInfo *dinfo;
     s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
 
-    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
+    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {
         fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
         exit(1);
     }
-    if (!revision)
-        revision = "pxa270";
 
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, revision));
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
     s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
 
     /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
@@ -2192,7 +2190,7 @@ PXA2xxState *pxa255_init(MemoryRegion *address_space, unsigned int sdram_size)
 
     s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
 
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255"));
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa255")));
     s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
 
     /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
diff --git a/hw/arm/realview.c b/hw/arm/realview.c
index 76ff557..38e3278 100644
--- a/hw/arm/realview.c
+++ b/hw/arm/realview.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
 {
     ARMCPU *cpu = NULL;
     CPUARMState *env;
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
     MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
     MemoryRegion *ram_lo;
     MemoryRegion *ram_hi = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
@@ -96,14 +95,8 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
         break;
     }
 
-    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, machine->cpu_model);
-    if (!cpu_oc) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
     for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
-        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
+        Object *cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
 
         /* By default A9,A15 and ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board
          * does not currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled
@@ -359,33 +352,21 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
 
 static void realview_eb_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = "arm926";
-    }
     realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB);
 }
 
 static void realview_eb_mpcore_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = "arm11mpcore";
-    }
     realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB_MPCORE);
 }
 
 static void realview_pb_a8_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a8";
-    }
     realview_init(machine, BOARD_PB_A8);
 }
 
 static void realview_pbx_a9_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
-    }
     realview_init(machine, BOARD_PBX_A9);
 }
 
@@ -396,6 +377,7 @@ static void realview_eb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)";
     mc->init = realview_eb_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo realview_eb_type = {
@@ -412,6 +394,7 @@ static void realview_eb_mpcore_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->init = realview_eb_mpcore_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
     mc->max_cpus = 4;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm11mpcore");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo realview_eb_mpcore_type = {
@@ -426,6 +409,7 @@ static void realview_pb_a8_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8";
     mc->init = realview_pb_a8_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a8");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo realview_pb_a8_type = {
@@ -441,6 +425,7 @@ static void realview_pbx_a9_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex-A9";
     mc->init = realview_pbx_a9_init;
     mc->max_cpus = 4;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo realview_pbx_a9_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/spitz.c b/hw/arm/spitz.c
index 7f588ce..b6ddb7c 100644
--- a/hw/arm/spitz.c
+++ b/hw/arm/spitz.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include "hw/sysbus.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 #undef REG_FMT
 #define REG_FMT			"0x%02lx"
@@ -909,13 +910,10 @@ static void spitz_common_init(MachineState *machine,
     DeviceState *scp0, *scp1 = NULL;
     MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
     MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
-
-    if (!cpu_model)
-        cpu_model = (model == terrier) ? "pxa270-c5" : "pxa270-c0";
 
     /* Setup CPU & memory */
-    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
+    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size,
+                      machine->cpu_type);
 
     sl_flash_register(mpu, (model == spitz) ? FLASH_128M : FLASH_1024M);
 
@@ -983,6 +981,7 @@ static void akitapda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270)";
     mc->init = akita_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo akitapda_type = {
@@ -998,6 +997,7 @@ static void spitzpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270)";
     mc->init = spitz_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo spitzpda_type = {
@@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ static void borzoipda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270)";
     mc->init = borzoi_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo borzoipda_type = {
@@ -1028,6 +1029,7 @@ static void terrierpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270)";
     mc->init = terrier_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo terrierpda_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/stellaris.c b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
index 408c1a1..c8fa9da 100644
--- a/hw/arm/stellaris.c
+++ b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 #include "hw/char/pl011.h"
 #include "hw/misc/unimp.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 #define GPIO_A 0
 #define GPIO_B 1
@@ -1225,8 +1226,7 @@ static stellaris_board_info stellaris_boards[] = {
   }
 };
 
-static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
-                           stellaris_board_info *board)
+static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, stellaris_board_info *board)
 {
     static const int uart_irq[] = {5, 6, 33, 34};
     static const int timer_irq[] = {19, 21, 23, 35};
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
     memory_region_add_subregion(system_memory, 0x20000000, sram);
 
     nvic = armv7m_init(system_memory, flash_size, NUM_IRQ_LINES,
-                      kernel_filename, cpu_model);
+                       ms->kernel_filename, ms->cpu_type);
 
     qdev_connect_gpio_out_named(nvic, "SYSRESETREQ", 0,
                                 qemu_allocate_irq(&do_sys_reset, NULL, 0));
@@ -1435,16 +1435,12 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
 /* FIXME: Figure out how to generate these from stellaris_boards.  */
 static void lm3s811evb_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
-    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
-    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[0]);
+    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[0]);
 }
 
 static void lm3s6965evb_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
-    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
-    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[1]);
+    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[1]);
 }
 
 static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
@@ -1453,6 +1449,7 @@ static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Stellaris LM3S811EVB";
     mc->init = lm3s811evb_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo lm3s811evb_type = {
@@ -1467,6 +1464,7 @@ static void lm3s6965evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
 
     mc->desc = "Stellaris LM3S6965EVB";
     mc->init = lm3s6965evb_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo lm3s6965evb_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
--- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
+++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
 
     armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
     qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
-    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
+    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
     object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
                                      "memory", &error_abort);
     object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
 }
 
 static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
-    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
+    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
 };
 
diff --git a/hw/arm/strongarm.c b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
index c1145dd..3d1a231 100644
--- a/hw/arm/strongarm.c
+++ b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
@@ -1581,23 +1581,19 @@ static const TypeInfo strongarm_ssp_info = {
 
 /* Main CPU functions */
 StrongARMState *sa1110_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
-                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *rev)
+                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
 {
     StrongARMState *s;
     int i;
 
     s = g_new0(StrongARMState, 1);
 
-    if (!rev) {
-        rev = "sa1110-b5";
-    }
-
-    if (strncmp(rev, "sa1110", 6)) {
+    if (strncmp(cpu_type, "sa1110", 6)) {
         error_report("Machine requires a SA1110 processor.");
         exit(1);
     }
 
-    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, rev));
+    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
 
     memory_region_allocate_system_memory(&s->sdram, NULL, "strongarm.sdram",
                                          sdram_size);
diff --git a/hw/arm/tosa.c b/hw/arm/tosa.c
index 8b757ff..75631f6 100644
--- a/hw/arm/tosa.c
+++ b/hw/arm/tosa.c
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info tosa_binfo = {
 
 static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -229,9 +228,6 @@ static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
     TC6393xbState *tmio;
     DeviceState *scp0, *scp1;
 
-    if (!cpu_model)
-        cpu_model = "pxa255";
-
     mpu = pxa255_init(address_space_mem, tosa_binfo.ram_size);
 
     memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "tosa.rom", TOSA_ROM, &error_fatal);
diff --git a/hw/arm/versatilepb.c b/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
index b0e9f5b..ffda0ba 100644
--- a/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
+++ b/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info versatile_binfo;
 
 static void versatile_init(MachineState *machine, int board_id)
 {
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
     Object *cpuobj;
     ARMCPU *cpu;
     MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
@@ -207,17 +206,7 @@ static void versatile_init(MachineState *machine, int board_id)
         exit(1);
     }
 
-    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
-        machine->cpu_model = "arm926";
-    }
-
-    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, machine->cpu_model);
-    if (!cpu_oc) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
+    cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
 
     /* By default ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
      * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
@@ -403,6 +392,7 @@ static void versatilepb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)";
     mc->init = vpb_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo versatilepb_type = {
@@ -418,6 +408,7 @@ static void versatileab_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->desc = "ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)";
     mc->init = vab_init;
     mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo versatileab_type = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/vexpress.c b/hw/arm/vexpress.c
index 528c65d..4fdeda2 100644
--- a/hw/arm/vexpress.c
+++ b/hw/arm/vexpress.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ typedef struct {
 
 typedef void DBoardInitFn(const VexpressMachineState *machine,
                           ram_addr_t ram_size,
-                          const char *cpu_model,
+                          const char *cpu_type,
                           qemu_irq *pic);
 
 struct VEDBoardInfo {
@@ -200,22 +200,16 @@ struct VEDBoardInfo {
     DBoardInitFn *init;
 };
 
-static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_model, const char *privdev,
+static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_type, const char *privdev,
                       hwaddr periphbase, qemu_irq *pic, bool secure)
 {
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
     DeviceState *dev;
     SysBusDevice *busdev;
     int n;
 
-    if (!cpu_oc) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
     /* Create the actual CPUs */
     for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
-        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
+        Object *cpuobj = object_new(cpu_type);
 
         if (!secure) {
             object_property_set_bool(cpuobj, false, "has_el3", NULL);
@@ -260,7 +254,7 @@ static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_model, const char *privdev,
 
 static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
                                   ram_addr_t ram_size,
-                                  const char *cpu_model,
+                                  const char *cpu_type,
                                   qemu_irq *pic)
 {
     MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
@@ -268,10 +262,6 @@ static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
     MemoryRegion *lowram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     ram_addr_t low_ram_size;
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
-    }
-
     if (ram_size > 0x40000000) {
         /* 1GB is the maximum the address space permits */
         fprintf(stderr, "vexpress-a9: cannot model more than 1GB RAM\n");
@@ -293,7 +283,7 @@ static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
     memory_region_add_subregion(sysmem, 0x60000000, ram);
 
     /* 0x1e000000 A9MPCore (SCU) private memory region */
-    init_cpus(cpu_model, "a9mpcore_priv", 0x1e000000, pic, vms->secure);
+    init_cpus(cpu_type, "a9mpcore_priv", 0x1e000000, pic, vms->secure);
 
     /* Daughterboard peripherals : 0x10020000 .. 0x20000000 */
 
@@ -349,17 +339,13 @@ static VEDBoardInfo a9_daughterboard = {
 
 static void a15_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
                                    ram_addr_t ram_size,
-                                   const char *cpu_model,
+                                   const char *cpu_type,
                                    qemu_irq *pic)
 {
     MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
     MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
     MemoryRegion *sram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
-    }
-
     {
         /* We have to use a separate 64 bit variable here to avoid the gcc
          * "comparison is always false due to limited range of data type"
@@ -378,7 +364,7 @@ static void a15_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
     memory_region_add_subregion(sysmem, 0x80000000, ram);
 
     /* 0x2c000000 A15MPCore private memory region (GIC) */
-    init_cpus(cpu_model, "a15mpcore_priv", 0x2c000000, pic, vms->secure);
+    init_cpus(cpu_type, "a15mpcore_priv", 0x2c000000, pic, vms->secure);
 
     /* A15 daughterboard peripherals: */
 
@@ -558,7 +544,7 @@ static void vexpress_common_init(MachineState *machine)
     const hwaddr *map = daughterboard->motherboard_map;
     int i;
 
-    daughterboard->init(vms, machine->ram_size, machine->cpu_model, pic);
+    daughterboard->init(vms, machine->ram_size, machine->cpu_type, pic);
 
     /*
      * If a bios file was provided, attempt to map it into memory
@@ -758,6 +744,7 @@ static void vexpress_a9_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     VexpressMachineClass *vmc = VEXPRESS_MACHINE_CLASS(oc);
 
     mc->desc = "ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
 
     vmc->daughterboard = &a9_daughterboard;
 }
@@ -768,6 +755,7 @@ static void vexpress_a15_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     VexpressMachineClass *vmc = VEXPRESS_MACHINE_CLASS(oc);
 
     mc->desc = "ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15";
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
 
     vmc->daughterboard = &a15_daughterboard;
 }
diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
index 6b7a0fe..c68cf08 100644
--- a/hw/arm/virt.c
+++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
@@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ static const int a15irqmap[] = {
 };
 
 static const char *valid_cpus[] = {
-    "cortex-a15",
-    "cortex-a53",
-    "cortex-a57",
-    "host",
+    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15"),
+    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a53"),
+    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a57"),
+    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("host"),
 };
 
-static bool cpuname_valid(const char *cpu)
+static bool cpu_type_valid(const char *cpu)
 {
     int i;
 
@@ -1250,18 +1250,8 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
     MemoryRegion *secure_sysmem = NULL;
     int n, virt_max_cpus;
     MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
-    char **cpustr;
-    ObjectClass *oc;
-    const char *typename;
-    CPUClass *cc;
-    Error *err = NULL;
     bool firmware_loaded = bios_name || drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
-    }
-
     /* We can probe only here because during property set
      * KVM is not available yet
      */
@@ -1278,11 +1268,8 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
         }
     }
 
-    /* Separate the actual CPU model name from any appended features */
-    cpustr = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 2);
-
-    if (!cpuname_valid(cpustr[0])) {
-        error_report("mach-virt: CPU %s not supported", cpustr[0]);
+    if (!cpu_type_valid(machine->cpu_type)) {
+        error_report("mach-virt: CPU type %s not supported", machine->cpu_type);
         exit(1);
     }
 
@@ -1352,22 +1339,6 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
 
     create_fdt(vms);
 
-    oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
-    if (!oc) {
-        error_report("Unable to find CPU definition");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    typename = object_class_get_name(oc);
-
-    /* convert -smp CPU options specified by the user into global props */
-    cc = CPU_CLASS(oc);
-    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
-    g_strfreev(cpustr);
-    if (err) {
-        error_report_err(err);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
     possible_cpus = mc->possible_cpu_arch_ids(machine);
     for (n = 0; n < possible_cpus->len; n++) {
         Object *cpuobj;
@@ -1377,7 +1348,7 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
             break;
         }
 
-        cpuobj = object_new(typename);
+        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
         object_property_set_int(cpuobj, possible_cpus->cpus[n].arch_id,
                                 "mp-affinity", NULL);
 
@@ -1622,6 +1593,7 @@ static void virt_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
     mc->minimum_page_bits = 12;
     mc->possible_cpu_arch_ids = virt_possible_cpu_arch_ids;
     mc->cpu_index_to_instance_props = virt_cpu_index_to_props;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo virt_machine_info = {
diff --git a/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c b/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
index 6b11a75..4efca78 100644
--- a/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
+++ b/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
@@ -156,11 +156,9 @@ static inline void zynq_init_spi_flashes(uint32_t base_addr, qemu_irq irq,
 static void zynq_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
     ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
-    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
     ARMCPU *cpu;
     MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
     MemoryRegion *ext_ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
@@ -172,12 +170,7 @@ static void zynq_init(MachineState *machine)
     qemu_irq pic[64];
     int n;
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
-    }
-    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
-
-    cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc)));
+    cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(machine->cpu_type));
 
     /* By default A9 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
      * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
@@ -324,6 +317,7 @@ static void zynq_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
     mc->init = zynq_init;
     mc->max_cpus = 1;
     mc->no_sdcard = 1;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("xilinx-zynq-a9", zynq_machine_init)
diff --git a/hw/arm/z2.c b/hw/arm/z2.c
index 1607cbd..f306407 100644
--- a/hw/arm/z2.c
+++ b/hw/arm/z2.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "audio/audio.h"
 #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
 #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
+#include "cpu.h"
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_Z2
 #define DPRINTF(fmt, ...) \
@@ -296,7 +297,6 @@ static const TypeInfo aer915_info = {
 
 static void z2_init(MachineState *machine)
 {
-    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
     const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
     const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
     const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
@@ -309,12 +309,8 @@ static void z2_init(MachineState *machine)
     I2CBus *bus;
     DeviceState *wm;
 
-    if (!cpu_model) {
-        cpu_model = "pxa270-c5";
-    }
-
     /* Setup CPU & memory */
-    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, z2_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
+    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, z2_binfo.ram_size, machine->cpu_type);
 
 #ifdef TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
     be = 1;
@@ -370,6 +366,7 @@ static void z2_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
 {
     mc->desc = "Zipit Z2 (PXA27x)";
     mc->init = z2_init;
+    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("z2", z2_machine_init)
diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
index 05c038b..feeeeb2 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu.c
+++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static ObjectClass *arm_cpu_class_by_name(const char *cpu_model)
     }
 
     cpuname = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 1);
-    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpuname[0]);
+    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s" ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX, cpuname[0]);
     oc = object_class_by_name(typename);
     g_strfreev(cpuname);
     g_free(typename);
-- 
2.7.4


Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 2 months ago
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> there are 2 use cases to deal with:
>   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
>   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
>      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> 
> For the 1st
>   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
>   directly, which replaces:
>      typename = object_class_get_name(
>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
>      object_new(typename)
>   with
>      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
>   or
>      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
>   with
>      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> 
> as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> translation and not needed code is removed.
> 
> For the 2nd
>  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
>  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
>     is run and:
>     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
>        typename = object_class_get_name(
>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
>        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> 
>     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
>          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
>          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> in boadr's machine_init code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> ---
> CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
> CC: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com> 
> CC: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> 
> CC: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com> 
> CC: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> 
> CC: Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me> 
> CC: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> 
> CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org 
> ---
>  include/hw/arm/armv7m.h        |  2 +-
>  include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h    |  2 +-
>  include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h |  2 +-
>  target/arm/cpu.h               |  3 +++
>  hw/arm/armv7m.c                | 40 +++++-------------------------------
>  hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c            | 13 +++++-------
>  hw/arm/collie.c                | 10 +++------
>  hw/arm/exynos4210.c            |  6 +-----
>  hw/arm/gumstix.c               |  5 +++--
>  hw/arm/highbank.c              | 10 ++++-----
>  hw/arm/integratorcp.c          | 30 ++-------------------------
>  hw/arm/mainstone.c             |  9 ++++-----
>  hw/arm/mps2.c                  | 17 +++++++---------
>  hw/arm/musicpal.c              |  7 ++-----
>  hw/arm/netduino2.c             |  2 +-
>  hw/arm/nseries.c               |  4 +++-
>  hw/arm/omap1.c                 |  7 ++-----
>  hw/arm/omap2.c                 |  4 ++--
>  hw/arm/omap_sx1.c              |  5 ++++-
>  hw/arm/palm.c                  |  5 +++--
>  hw/arm/pxa2xx.c                | 10 ++++-----
>  hw/arm/realview.c              | 25 +++++------------------
>  hw/arm/spitz.c                 | 12 ++++++-----
>  hw/arm/stellaris.c             | 16 +++++++--------
>  hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c         |  4 ++--
>  hw/arm/strongarm.c             | 10 +++------
>  hw/arm/tosa.c                  |  4 ----
>  hw/arm/versatilepb.c           | 15 +++-----------
>  hw/arm/vexpress.c              | 32 +++++++++--------------------
>  hw/arm/virt.c                  | 46 +++++++++---------------------------------
>  hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c           | 10 ++-------
>  hw/arm/z2.c                    |  9 +++------
>  target/arm/cpu.c               |  2 +-
>  33 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
> index a9b3f2a..8496743 100644
> --- a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
> +++ b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef struct ARMv7MState {
>      MemoryRegion container;
>  
>      /* Properties */
> -    char *cpu_model;
> +    char *cpu_type;
>      /* MemoryRegion the board provides to us (with its devices, RAM, etc) */
>      MemoryRegion *board_memory;
>  } ARMv7MState;
> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
> index 0b88baa..f26914a 100644
> --- a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
> +++ b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ typedef struct AspeedSoCState {
>  
>  typedef struct AspeedSoCInfo {
>      const char *name;
> -    const char *cpu_model;
> +    const char *cpu_type;
>      uint32_t silicon_rev;
>      hwaddr sdram_base;
>      uint64_t sram_size;
> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
> index e2dce11..922a733 100644
> --- a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
> +++ b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ typedef struct STM32F205State {
>      SysBusDevice parent_obj;
>      /*< public >*/
>  
> -    char *cpu_model;
> +    char *cpu_type;
>  
>      ARMv7MState armv7m;
>  
> diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.h b/target/arm/cpu.h
> index 5932ef1..3e1ba19 100644
> --- a/target/arm/cpu.h
> +++ b/target/arm/cpu.h
> @@ -2002,6 +2002,9 @@ static inline bool arm_excp_unmasked(CPUState *cs, unsigned int excp_idx,
>  
>  #define cpu_init(cpu_model) cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model)
>  
> +#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX "-" TYPE_ARM_CPU
> +#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME(name) (name ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX)
> +
>  #define cpu_signal_handler cpu_arm_signal_handler
>  #define cpu_list arm_cpu_list
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/armv7m.c b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
> index c8a11f2..9c45f26 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/armv7m.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
> @@ -163,10 +163,6 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>      SysBusDevice *sbd;
>      Error *err = NULL;
>      int i;
> -    char **cpustr;
> -    ObjectClass *oc;
> -    const char *typename;
> -    CPUClass *cc;
>  
>      if (!s->board_memory) {
>          error_setg(errp, "memory property was not set");
> @@ -175,29 +171,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  
>      memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(&s->container, 0, s->board_memory, -1);
>  
> -    cpustr = g_strsplit(s->cpu_model, ",", 2);
> -
> -    oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
> -    if (!oc) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", cpustr[0]);
> -        g_strfreev(cpustr);
> -        return;
> -    }
> -
> -    cc = CPU_CLASS(oc);
> -    typename = object_class_get_name(oc);
> -    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
> -    g_strfreev(cpustr);
> -    if (err) {
> -        error_propagate(errp, err);
> -        return;
> -    }
> -
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(typename));
> -    if (!s->cpu) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", s->cpu_model);
> -        return;
> -    }
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(s->cpu_type));

Nice.

>  
>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(s->cpu), OBJECT(&s->container), "memory",
>                               &error_abort);
> @@ -253,7 +227,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  }
>  
>  static Property armv7m_properties[] = {
> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", ARMv7MState, cpu_model),
> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", ARMv7MState, cpu_type),

Are we 100% sure the cpu-model property is never manually set by
users?


>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
>  };
>  
> @@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
>     Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
>  
>  DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
> -                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
> +                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
>  {
>      DeviceState *armv7m;
>  
> -    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> -    }
> -

I was going to suggest doing the default_cpu_type stuff in a
separate patch, but it might require touching those lines twice.
So I guess this is OK.


>      armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> -    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
> +    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
>      qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
>  
>      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> index 5529024..cd7bb94 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static const char *aspeed_soc_ast2500_typenames[] = {
>  static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>      {
>          .name         = "ast2400-a0",
> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>      }, {
>          .name         = "ast2400-a1",
> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A1_SILICON_REV,
>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>      }, {
>          .name         = "ast2400",
> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>      }, {
>          .name         = "ast2500-a1",
> -        .cpu_model    = "arm1176",
> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1176"),
>          .silicon_rev  = AST2500_A1_SILICON_REV,
>          .sdram_base   = AST2500_SDRAM_BASE,
>          .sram_size    = 0x9000,
> @@ -128,13 +128,10 @@ static void aspeed_soc_init(Object *obj)
>  {
>      AspeedSoCState *s = ASPEED_SOC(obj);
>      AspeedSoCClass *sc = ASPEED_SOC_GET_CLASS(s);
> -    char *cpu_typename;
>      int i;
>  
> -    cpu_typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, sc->info->cpu_model);
> -    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), cpu_typename);
> +    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), sc->info->cpu_type);
>      object_property_add_child(obj, "cpu", OBJECT(&s->cpu), NULL);
> -    g_free(cpu_typename);
>  

Nice.

>      object_initialize(&s->vic, sizeof(s->vic), TYPE_ASPEED_VIC);
>      object_property_add_child(obj, "vic", OBJECT(&s->vic), NULL);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/collie.c b/hw/arm/collie.c
> index 2e69531..f043cd8 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/collie.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/collie.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>  #include "hw/block/flash.h"
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
> -#include "qom/cpu.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
>      .loader_start = SA_SDCS0,
> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
>  
>  static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -35,11 +34,7 @@ static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "sa1110";
> -    }
> -
> -    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
> +    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
>      pflash_cfi01_register(SA_CS0, NULL, "collie.fl1", 0x02000000,
> @@ -64,6 +59,7 @@ static void collie_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)";
>      mc->init = collie_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("sa1110");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("collie", collie_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
> index f9e79f3..81f12e3 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
> @@ -169,15 +169,11 @@ Exynos4210State *exynos4210_init(MemoryRegion *system_mem)
>      Exynos4210State *s = g_new(Exynos4210State, 1);
>      qemu_irq gate_irq[EXYNOS4210_NCPUS][EXYNOS4210_IRQ_GATE_NINPUTS];
>      SysBusDevice *busdev;
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>      DeviceState *dev;
>      int i, n;
>  
> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "cortex-a9");
> -    assert(cpu_oc);
> -
>      for (n = 0; n < EXYNOS4210_NCPUS; n++) {
> -        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
> +        Object *cpuobj = object_new(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9"));
>  
>          /* By default A9 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not currently
>           * support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before realization.
> diff --git a/hw/arm/gumstix.c b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
> index d59d9ba..2b66bb7 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/gumstix.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  static const int sector_len = 128 * 1024;
>  
> @@ -86,7 +87,6 @@ static void connex_init(MachineState *machine)
>  
>  static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      PXA2xxState *cpu;
>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>      int be;
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
>      uint32_t verdex_rom = 0x02000000;
>      uint32_t verdex_ram = 0x10000000;
>  
> -    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, cpu_model ?: "pxa270-c0");
> +    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
>      if (!dinfo && !qtest_enabled()) {
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static void verdex_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Gumstix Verdex (PXA270)";
>      mc->init = verdex_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo verdex_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
>  static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
>  {
>      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
>  
>      switch (machine_id) {
>      case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>          break;
>      case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
>          break;
> +    default:
> +        assert(0);
>      }

Why not delete this switch statement completely and set
default_cpu_type at midway_class_init() and
highbank_class_init()?


>  
>      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> -        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
>          Object *cpuobj;
>          ARMCPU *cpu;
>  
> -        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
> +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>          cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
>  
>          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,
> diff --git a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
> index d9530ed..44d247e 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
> @@ -572,46 +572,19 @@ static struct arm_boot_info integrator_binfo = {
>  static void integratorcp_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
>      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> -    char **cpustr;
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
> -    CPUClass *cc;
>      Object *cpuobj;
>      ARMCPU *cpu;
> -    const char *typename;
>      MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      MemoryRegion *ram_alias = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      qemu_irq pic[32];
>      DeviceState *dev, *sic, *icp;
>      int i;
> -    Error *err = NULL;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "arm926";
> -    }
> -
> -    cpustr = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 2);
> -
> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -    typename = object_class_get_name(cpu_oc);
> -
> -    cc = CPU_CLASS(cpu_oc);
> -    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
> -    g_strfreev(cpustr);
> -    if (err) {
> -        error_report_err(err);
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -
> -    cpuobj = object_new(typename);
> +    cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);

Nice.

>  
>      /* By default ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
>       * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
> @@ -681,6 +654,7 @@ static void integratorcp_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)";
>      mc->init = integratorcp_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("integratorcp", integratorcp_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/mainstone.c b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
> index fb268e6..2b13d30 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/mainstone.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include "hw/sysbus.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  /* Device addresses */
>  #define MST_FPGA_PHYS	0x08000000
> @@ -121,13 +122,10 @@ static void mainstone_common_init(MemoryRegion *address_space_mem,
>      int i;
>      int be;
>      MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> -
> -    if (!cpu_model)
> -        cpu_model = "pxa270-c5";
>  
>      /* Setup CPU & memory */
> -    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
> +    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size,
> +                      machine->cpu_type);
>      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "mainstone.rom", MAINSTONE_ROM,
>                             &error_fatal);
>      memory_region_set_readonly(rom, true);
> @@ -196,6 +194,7 @@ static void mainstone2_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "Mainstone II (PXA27x)";
>      mc->init = mainstone_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("mainstone", mainstone2_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/mps2.c b/hw/arm/mps2.c
> index abb0ab6..aeaad80 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/mps2.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/mps2.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ typedef enum MPS2FPGAType {
>  typedef struct {
>      MachineClass parent;
>      MPS2FPGAType fpga_type;
> -    const char *cpu_model;
>      uint32_t scc_id;
>  } MPS2MachineClass;
>  
> @@ -107,14 +106,12 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
>      MPS2MachineState *mms = MPS2_MACHINE(machine);
>      MPS2MachineClass *mmc = MPS2_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
>      MemoryRegion *system_memory = get_system_memory();
> +    MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
>      DeviceState *armv7m, *sccdev;
>  
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = mmc->cpu_model;
> -    }
> -
> -    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_model, mmc->cpu_model) != 0) {
> -        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s", mmc->cpu_model);
> +    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_type, mc->default_cpu_type) != 0) {
> +        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s",
> +                     mc->default_cpu_type);

Suggestion for later: a generic mechanism to let the machine
class validate the CPU type this way.  Maybe a
MachineClass::configurable_cpu_type=false field?


>          exit(1);
>      }
>  
> @@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
>      default:
>          g_assert_not_reached();
>      }
> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", machine->cpu_model);
> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", machine->cpu_type);
>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), OBJECT(system_memory),
>                               "memory", &error_abort);
>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), true, "realized",
> @@ -339,7 +336,7 @@ static void mps2_an385_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN385 FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
>      mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN385;
> -    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>      mmc->scc_id = 0x41040000 | (385 << 4);
>  }
>  
> @@ -350,7 +347,7 @@ static void mps2_an511_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN511 DesignStart FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
>      mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN511;
> -    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>      mmc->scc_id = 0x4104000 | (511 << 4);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/musicpal.c b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
> index 64c8e09..9b2000d 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/musicpal.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
> @@ -1570,7 +1570,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info musicpal_binfo = {
>  
>  static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -1590,10 +1589,7 @@ static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      MemoryRegion *sram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "arm926";
> -    }
> -    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model));
> +    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(machine->cpu_type));
>  
>      /* For now we use a fixed - the original - RAM size */
>      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(ram, NULL, "musicpal.ram",
> @@ -1714,6 +1710,7 @@ static void musicpal_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)";
>      mc->init = musicpal_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("musicpal", musicpal_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/netduino2.c b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
> index 3cfe332..4790824 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/netduino2.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static void netduino2_init(MachineState *machine)
>      DeviceState *dev;
>  
>      dev = qdev_create(NULL, TYPE_STM32F205_SOC);
> -    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-model", "cortex-m3");
> +    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-type", ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3"));
>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(dev), true, "realized", &error_fatal);
>  
>      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), machine->kernel_filename,
> diff --git a/hw/arm/nseries.c b/hw/arm/nseries.c
> index 503a3b6..b41850e 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/nseries.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/nseries.c
> @@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ static void n8x0_init(MachineState *machine,
>      struct n800_s *s = (struct n800_s *) g_malloc0(sizeof(*s));
>      int sdram_size = binfo->ram_size;
>  
> -    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_model);
> +    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      /* Setup peripherals
>       *
> @@ -1425,6 +1425,7 @@ static void n800_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420)";
>      mc->init = n800_init;
>      mc->default_boot_order = "";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo n800_type = {
> @@ -1440,6 +1441,7 @@ static void n810_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420)";
>      mc->init = n810_init;
>      mc->default_boot_order = "";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo n810_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap1.c b/hw/arm/omap1.c
> index 04e65ce..b3e7625 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/omap1.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/omap1.c
> @@ -3850,7 +3850,7 @@ static int omap_validate_tipb_mpui_addr(struct omap_mpu_state_s *s,
>  
>  struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
>                  unsigned long sdram_size,
> -                const char *core)
> +                const char *cpu_type)
>  {
>      int i;
>      struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
> @@ -3858,12 +3858,9 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>      SysBusDevice *busdev;
>  
> -    if (!core)
> -        core = "ti925t";
> -
>      /* Core */
>      s->mpu_model = omap310;
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core));
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>      s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
>      s->sram_size = OMAP15XX_SRAM_SIZE;
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap2.c b/hw/arm/omap2.c
> index 5821477..3f6076e 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/omap2.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/omap2.c
> @@ -2250,7 +2250,7 @@ static const struct dma_irq_map omap2_dma_irq_map[] = {
>  
>  struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
>                  unsigned long sdram_size,
> -                const char *core)
> +                const char *cpu_type)
>  {
>      struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
>      qemu_irq dma_irqs[4];
> @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
>  
>      /* Core */
>      s->mpu_model = omap2420;
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core ?: "arm1136-r2"));
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>      s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
>      s->sram_size = OMAP242X_SRAM_SIZE;
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
> index 9809106..1236ec1 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  /*****************************************************************************/
>  /* Siemens SX1 Cellphone V1 */
> @@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ static void sx1_init(MachineState *machine, const int version)
>      }
>  
>      mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space, sx1_binfo.ram_size,
> -                           machine->cpu_model);
> +                           machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
>      memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "omap_sx1.flash0-0", flash_size,
> @@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v2_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2";
>      mc->init = sx1_init_v2;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v2_type = {
> @@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v1_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1";
>      mc->init = sx1_init_v1;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v1_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/palm.c b/hw/arm/palm.c
> index 64cf8ca..862f048 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/palm.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/palm.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include "hw/devices.h"
>  #include "hw/loader.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  static uint32_t static_readb(void *opaque, hwaddr offset)
>  {
> @@ -195,7 +196,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info palmte_binfo = {
>  
>  static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
>      MemoryRegion *flash = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      MemoryRegion *cs = g_new(MemoryRegion, 4);
>  
> -    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, cpu_model);
> +    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
>      memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "palmte.flash", flash_size,
> @@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ static void palmte_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310)";
>      mc->init = palmte_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("cheetah", palmte_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> index c16657d..79b317a 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> @@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
>  
>  /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
>  PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
> -                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
> +                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
>  {
>      PXA2xxState *s;
>      int i;
>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
>  
> -    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
> +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {

Why are you using ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME here, if you are only
checking if cpu_type starts with "pxa27"?

I suggest adding a TODO here noting that we implement this using
either a TYPE_ARM_PXA27 subclass (so we can use
object_class_dynamic_cast()), or a ARMCPUClass field to identify
if the CPU is pxa27.

>          fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
>          exit(1);
>      }

This would be another use case for a generic CPU model validation
mechanism in MachineClass.


> -    if (!revision)
> -        revision = "pxa270";
>  
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, revision));
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>      s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
>  
>      /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
> @@ -2192,7 +2190,7 @@ PXA2xxState *pxa255_init(MemoryRegion *address_space, unsigned int sdram_size)
>  
>      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
>  
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255"));
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa255")));
>      s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
>  
>      /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
> diff --git a/hw/arm/realview.c b/hw/arm/realview.c
> index 76ff557..38e3278 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/realview.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/realview.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>  {
>      ARMCPU *cpu = NULL;
>      CPUARMState *env;
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
>      MemoryRegion *ram_lo;
>      MemoryRegion *ram_hi = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
> @@ -96,14 +95,8 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>          break;
>      }
>  
> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, machine->cpu_model);
> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -
>      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> -        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
> +        Object *cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>  
>          /* By default A9,A15 and ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board
>           * does not currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled
> @@ -359,33 +352,21 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>  
>  static void realview_eb_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = "arm926";
> -    }
>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB);
>  }
>  
>  static void realview_eb_mpcore_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = "arm11mpcore";
> -    }
>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB_MPCORE);
>  }
>  
>  static void realview_pb_a8_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a8";
> -    }
>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_PB_A8);
>  }
>  
>  static void realview_pbx_a9_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> -    }
>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_PBX_A9);
>  }
>  
> @@ -396,6 +377,7 @@ static void realview_eb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)";
>      mc->init = realview_eb_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo realview_eb_type = {
> @@ -412,6 +394,7 @@ static void realview_eb_mpcore_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->init = realview_eb_mpcore_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
>      mc->max_cpus = 4;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm11mpcore");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo realview_eb_mpcore_type = {
> @@ -426,6 +409,7 @@ static void realview_pb_a8_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8";
>      mc->init = realview_pb_a8_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a8");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo realview_pb_a8_type = {
> @@ -441,6 +425,7 @@ static void realview_pbx_a9_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex-A9";
>      mc->init = realview_pbx_a9_init;
>      mc->max_cpus = 4;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo realview_pbx_a9_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/spitz.c b/hw/arm/spitz.c
> index 7f588ce..b6ddb7c 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/spitz.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/spitz.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>  #include "hw/sysbus.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  #undef REG_FMT
>  #define REG_FMT			"0x%02lx"
> @@ -909,13 +910,10 @@ static void spitz_common_init(MachineState *machine,
>      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1 = NULL;
>      MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
>      MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> -
> -    if (!cpu_model)
> -        cpu_model = (model == terrier) ? "pxa270-c5" : "pxa270-c0";
>  

Nice to see this go away.


>      /* Setup CPU & memory */
> -    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
> +    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size,
> +                      machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      sl_flash_register(mpu, (model == spitz) ? FLASH_128M : FLASH_1024M);
>  
> @@ -983,6 +981,7 @@ static void akitapda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270)";
>      mc->init = akita_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo akitapda_type = {
> @@ -998,6 +997,7 @@ static void spitzpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270)";
>      mc->init = spitz_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo spitzpda_type = {
> @@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ static void borzoipda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270)";
>      mc->init = borzoi_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo borzoipda_type = {
> @@ -1028,6 +1029,7 @@ static void terrierpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270)";
>      mc->init = terrier_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo terrierpda_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/stellaris.c b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> index 408c1a1..c8fa9da 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>  #include "hw/char/pl011.h"
>  #include "hw/misc/unimp.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  #define GPIO_A 0
>  #define GPIO_B 1
> @@ -1225,8 +1226,7 @@ static stellaris_board_info stellaris_boards[] = {
>    }
>  };
>  
> -static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
> -                           stellaris_board_info *board)
> +static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, stellaris_board_info *board)
>  {
>      static const int uart_irq[] = {5, 6, 33, 34};
>      static const int timer_irq[] = {19, 21, 23, 35};
> @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
>      memory_region_add_subregion(system_memory, 0x20000000, sram);
>  
>      nvic = armv7m_init(system_memory, flash_size, NUM_IRQ_LINES,
> -                      kernel_filename, cpu_model);
> +                       ms->kernel_filename, ms->cpu_type);
>  
>      qdev_connect_gpio_out_named(nvic, "SYSRESETREQ", 0,
>                                  qemu_allocate_irq(&do_sys_reset, NULL, 0));
> @@ -1435,16 +1435,12 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
>  /* FIXME: Figure out how to generate these from stellaris_boards.  */
>  static void lm3s811evb_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> -    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> -    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[0]);
> +    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[0]);
>  }
>  
>  static void lm3s6965evb_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> -    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> -    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[1]);
> +    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[1]);
>  }
>  
>  static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
> @@ -1453,6 +1449,7 @@ static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Stellaris LM3S811EVB";
>      mc->init = lm3s811evb_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo lm3s811evb_type = {
> @@ -1467,6 +1464,7 @@ static void lm3s6965evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>      mc->desc = "Stellaris LM3S6965EVB";
>      mc->init = lm3s6965evb_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo lm3s6965evb_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>  
>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>  }
>  
>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),

Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
manually?


>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
>  };
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/strongarm.c b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> index c1145dd..3d1a231 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> @@ -1581,23 +1581,19 @@ static const TypeInfo strongarm_ssp_info = {
>  
>  /* Main CPU functions */
>  StrongARMState *sa1110_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
> -                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *rev)
> +                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
>  {
>      StrongARMState *s;
>      int i;
>  
>      s = g_new0(StrongARMState, 1);
>  
> -    if (!rev) {
> -        rev = "sa1110-b5";
> -    }
> -
> -    if (strncmp(rev, "sa1110", 6)) {
> +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, "sa1110", 6)) {
>          error_report("Machine requires a SA1110 processor.");
>          exit(1);

Same suggestion as on pxa270_init(): adding a TODO here noting
that we implement this using either object_class_dynamic_cast(),
or a ARMCPUClass field to identify if the CPU is sa1110.



>      }
>  
> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, rev));
> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>  
>      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(&s->sdram, NULL, "strongarm.sdram",
>                                           sdram_size);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/tosa.c b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> index 8b757ff..75631f6 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/tosa.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info tosa_binfo = {
>  
>  static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -229,9 +228,6 @@ static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
>      TC6393xbState *tmio;
>      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model)
> -        cpu_model = "pxa255";
> -

Don't we need to set mc->default_cpu_type at
tosapda_machine_init() to replace this?


>      mpu = pxa255_init(address_space_mem, tosa_binfo.ram_size);
>  
>      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "tosa.rom", TOSA_ROM, &error_fatal);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/versatilepb.c b/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
> index b0e9f5b..ffda0ba 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/versatilepb.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info versatile_binfo;
>  
>  static void versatile_init(MachineState *machine, int board_id)
>  {
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>      Object *cpuobj;
>      ARMCPU *cpu;
>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
> @@ -207,17 +206,7 @@ static void versatile_init(MachineState *machine, int board_id)
>          exit(1);
>      }
>  
> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
> -        machine->cpu_model = "arm926";
> -    }
> -
> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, machine->cpu_model);
> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -
> -    cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
> +    cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>  
>      /* By default ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
>       * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
> @@ -403,6 +392,7 @@ static void versatilepb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)";
>      mc->init = vpb_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo versatilepb_type = {
> @@ -418,6 +408,7 @@ static void versatileab_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->desc = "ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)";
>      mc->init = vab_init;
>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo versatileab_type = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/vexpress.c b/hw/arm/vexpress.c
> index 528c65d..4fdeda2 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/vexpress.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/vexpress.c
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ typedef struct {
>  
>  typedef void DBoardInitFn(const VexpressMachineState *machine,
>                            ram_addr_t ram_size,
> -                          const char *cpu_model,
> +                          const char *cpu_type,
>                            qemu_irq *pic);
>  
>  struct VEDBoardInfo {
> @@ -200,22 +200,16 @@ struct VEDBoardInfo {
>      DBoardInitFn *init;
>  };
>  
> -static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_model, const char *privdev,
> +static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_type, const char *privdev,
>                        hwaddr periphbase, qemu_irq *pic, bool secure)
>  {
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
>      DeviceState *dev;
>      SysBusDevice *busdev;
>      int n;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -
>      /* Create the actual CPUs */
>      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> -        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
> +        Object *cpuobj = object_new(cpu_type);
>  
>          if (!secure) {
>              object_property_set_bool(cpuobj, false, "has_el3", NULL);
> @@ -260,7 +254,7 @@ static void init_cpus(const char *cpu_model, const char *privdev,
>  
>  static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
>                                    ram_addr_t ram_size,
> -                                  const char *cpu_model,
> +                                  const char *cpu_type,
>                                    qemu_irq *pic)
>  {
>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
> @@ -268,10 +262,6 @@ static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
>      MemoryRegion *lowram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      ram_addr_t low_ram_size;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> -    }
> -
>      if (ram_size > 0x40000000) {
>          /* 1GB is the maximum the address space permits */
>          fprintf(stderr, "vexpress-a9: cannot model more than 1GB RAM\n");
> @@ -293,7 +283,7 @@ static void a9_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
>      memory_region_add_subregion(sysmem, 0x60000000, ram);
>  
>      /* 0x1e000000 A9MPCore (SCU) private memory region */
> -    init_cpus(cpu_model, "a9mpcore_priv", 0x1e000000, pic, vms->secure);
> +    init_cpus(cpu_type, "a9mpcore_priv", 0x1e000000, pic, vms->secure);
>  
>      /* Daughterboard peripherals : 0x10020000 .. 0x20000000 */
>  
> @@ -349,17 +339,13 @@ static VEDBoardInfo a9_daughterboard = {
>  
>  static void a15_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
>                                     ram_addr_t ram_size,
> -                                   const char *cpu_model,
> +                                   const char *cpu_type,
>                                     qemu_irq *pic)
>  {
>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>      MemoryRegion *sram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> -    }
> -
>      {
>          /* We have to use a separate 64 bit variable here to avoid the gcc
>           * "comparison is always false due to limited range of data type"
> @@ -378,7 +364,7 @@ static void a15_daughterboard_init(const VexpressMachineState *vms,
>      memory_region_add_subregion(sysmem, 0x80000000, ram);
>  
>      /* 0x2c000000 A15MPCore private memory region (GIC) */
> -    init_cpus(cpu_model, "a15mpcore_priv", 0x2c000000, pic, vms->secure);
> +    init_cpus(cpu_type, "a15mpcore_priv", 0x2c000000, pic, vms->secure);
>  
>      /* A15 daughterboard peripherals: */
>  
> @@ -558,7 +544,7 @@ static void vexpress_common_init(MachineState *machine)
>      const hwaddr *map = daughterboard->motherboard_map;
>      int i;
>  
> -    daughterboard->init(vms, machine->ram_size, machine->cpu_model, pic);
> +    daughterboard->init(vms, machine->ram_size, machine->cpu_type, pic);
>  
>      /*
>       * If a bios file was provided, attempt to map it into memory
> @@ -758,6 +744,7 @@ static void vexpress_a9_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      VexpressMachineClass *vmc = VEXPRESS_MACHINE_CLASS(oc);
>  
>      mc->desc = "ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>  
>      vmc->daughterboard = &a9_daughterboard;
>  }
> @@ -768,6 +755,7 @@ static void vexpress_a15_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      VexpressMachineClass *vmc = VEXPRESS_MACHINE_CLASS(oc);
>  
>      mc->desc = "ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15";
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
>  
>      vmc->daughterboard = &a15_daughterboard;
>  }
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
> index 6b7a0fe..c68cf08 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
> @@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ static const int a15irqmap[] = {
>  };
>  
>  static const char *valid_cpus[] = {
> -    "cortex-a15",
> -    "cortex-a53",
> -    "cortex-a57",
> -    "host",
> +    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15"),
> +    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a53"),
> +    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a57"),
> +    ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("host"),
>  };

I think this is the 4th case where machine code validates the CPU
type.  It looks like a generic MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[]
field will be very useful.


>  
> -static bool cpuname_valid(const char *cpu)
> +static bool cpu_type_valid(const char *cpu)
>  {
>      int i;
>  
> @@ -1250,18 +1250,8 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>      MemoryRegion *secure_sysmem = NULL;
>      int n, virt_max_cpus;
>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> -    char **cpustr;
> -    ObjectClass *oc;
> -    const char *typename;
> -    CPUClass *cc;
> -    Error *err = NULL;
>      bool firmware_loaded = bios_name || drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> -    }
> -
>      /* We can probe only here because during property set
>       * KVM is not available yet
>       */
> @@ -1278,11 +1268,8 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>          }
>      }
>  
> -    /* Separate the actual CPU model name from any appended features */
> -    cpustr = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 2);
> -
> -    if (!cpuname_valid(cpustr[0])) {
> -        error_report("mach-virt: CPU %s not supported", cpustr[0]);
> +    if (!cpu_type_valid(machine->cpu_type)) {
> +        error_report("mach-virt: CPU type %s not supported", machine->cpu_type);
>          exit(1);
>      }

Nice.

>  
> @@ -1352,22 +1339,6 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>  
>      create_fdt(vms);
>  
> -    oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
> -    if (!oc) {
> -        error_report("Unable to find CPU definition");
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -    typename = object_class_get_name(oc);
> -
> -    /* convert -smp CPU options specified by the user into global props */
> -    cc = CPU_CLASS(oc);
> -    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
> -    g_strfreev(cpustr);
> -    if (err) {
> -        error_report_err(err);
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -

Nice.

>      possible_cpus = mc->possible_cpu_arch_ids(machine);
>      for (n = 0; n < possible_cpus->len; n++) {
>          Object *cpuobj;
> @@ -1377,7 +1348,7 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>              break;
>          }
>  
> -        cpuobj = object_new(typename);
> +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, possible_cpus->cpus[n].arch_id,
>                                  "mp-affinity", NULL);
>  
> @@ -1622,6 +1593,7 @@ static void virt_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>      mc->minimum_page_bits = 12;
>      mc->possible_cpu_arch_ids = virt_possible_cpu_arch_ids;
>      mc->cpu_index_to_instance_props = virt_cpu_index_to_props;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo virt_machine_info = {
> diff --git a/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c b/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
> index 6b11a75..4efca78 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c
> @@ -156,11 +156,9 @@ static inline void zynq_init_spi_flashes(uint32_t base_addr, qemu_irq irq,
>  static void zynq_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
>      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>      ARMCPU *cpu;
>      MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
>      MemoryRegion *ext_ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
> @@ -172,12 +170,7 @@ static void zynq_init(MachineState *machine)
>      qemu_irq pic[64];
>      int n;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> -    }
> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
> -
> -    cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc)));
> +    cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(machine->cpu_type));
>  
>      /* By default A9 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
>       * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
> @@ -324,6 +317,7 @@ static void zynq_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>      mc->init = zynq_init;
>      mc->max_cpus = 1;
>      mc->no_sdcard = 1;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("xilinx-zynq-a9", zynq_machine_init)
> diff --git a/hw/arm/z2.c b/hw/arm/z2.c
> index 1607cbd..f306407 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/z2.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/z2.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include "audio/audio.h"
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
> +#include "cpu.h"
>  
>  #ifdef DEBUG_Z2
>  #define DPRINTF(fmt, ...) \
> @@ -296,7 +297,6 @@ static const TypeInfo aer915_info = {
>  
>  static void z2_init(MachineState *machine)
>  {
> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> @@ -309,12 +309,8 @@ static void z2_init(MachineState *machine)
>      I2CBus *bus;
>      DeviceState *wm;
>  
> -    if (!cpu_model) {
> -        cpu_model = "pxa270-c5";
> -    }
> -
>      /* Setup CPU & memory */
> -    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, z2_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
> +    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, z2_binfo.ram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>  
>  #ifdef TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
>      be = 1;
> @@ -370,6 +366,7 @@ static void z2_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
>      mc->desc = "Zipit Z2 (PXA27x)";
>      mc->init = z2_init;
> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_MACHINE("z2", z2_machine_init)
> diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
> index 05c038b..feeeeb2 100644
> --- a/target/arm/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
> @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static ObjectClass *arm_cpu_class_by_name(const char *cpu_model)
>      }
>  
>      cpuname = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 1);
> -    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpuname[0]);
> +    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s" ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX, cpuname[0]);

What about doing the same we do in x86 and s390:

   g_strdup_printf(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("%s"), cpuname[0]);

>      oc = object_class_by_name(typename);
>      g_strfreev(cpuname);
>      g_free(typename);
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 


-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Alistair Francis 8 years, 2 months ago
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>> there are 2 use cases to deal with:
>>   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
>>   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
>>      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
>>
>> For the 1st
>>   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
>>   directly, which replaces:
>>      typename = object_class_get_name(
>>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
>>      object_new(typename)
>>   with
>>      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
>>   or
>>      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
>>   with
>>      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
>>
>> as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
>> translation and not needed code is removed.
>>
>> For the 2nd
>>  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
>>  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
>>     is run and:
>>     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
>>        typename = object_class_get_name(
>>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
>>        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
>>
>>     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
>>          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
>>          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
>> as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
>> generic machine code one including parsing optional features
>> if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
>> parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
>> within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
>> in boadr's machine_init code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>> CC: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com>
>> CC: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>> CC: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
>> CC: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
>> CC: Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me>
>> CC: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
>> CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
>> ---
>>  include/hw/arm/armv7m.h        |  2 +-
>>  include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h    |  2 +-
>>  include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h |  2 +-
>>  target/arm/cpu.h               |  3 +++
>>  hw/arm/armv7m.c                | 40 +++++-------------------------------
>>  hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c            | 13 +++++-------
>>  hw/arm/collie.c                | 10 +++------
>>  hw/arm/exynos4210.c            |  6 +-----
>>  hw/arm/gumstix.c               |  5 +++--
>>  hw/arm/highbank.c              | 10 ++++-----
>>  hw/arm/integratorcp.c          | 30 ++-------------------------
>>  hw/arm/mainstone.c             |  9 ++++-----
>>  hw/arm/mps2.c                  | 17 +++++++---------
>>  hw/arm/musicpal.c              |  7 ++-----
>>  hw/arm/netduino2.c             |  2 +-
>>  hw/arm/nseries.c               |  4 +++-
>>  hw/arm/omap1.c                 |  7 ++-----
>>  hw/arm/omap2.c                 |  4 ++--
>>  hw/arm/omap_sx1.c              |  5 ++++-
>>  hw/arm/palm.c                  |  5 +++--
>>  hw/arm/pxa2xx.c                | 10 ++++-----
>>  hw/arm/realview.c              | 25 +++++------------------
>>  hw/arm/spitz.c                 | 12 ++++++-----
>>  hw/arm/stellaris.c             | 16 +++++++--------
>>  hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c         |  4 ++--
>>  hw/arm/strongarm.c             | 10 +++------
>>  hw/arm/tosa.c                  |  4 ----
>>  hw/arm/versatilepb.c           | 15 +++-----------
>>  hw/arm/vexpress.c              | 32 +++++++++--------------------
>>  hw/arm/virt.c                  | 46 +++++++++---------------------------------
>>  hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c           | 10 ++-------
>>  hw/arm/z2.c                    |  9 +++------
>>  target/arm/cpu.c               |  2 +-
>>  33 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
>> index a9b3f2a..8496743 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/arm/armv7m.h
>> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef struct ARMv7MState {
>>      MemoryRegion container;
>>
>>      /* Properties */
>> -    char *cpu_model;
>> +    char *cpu_type;
>>      /* MemoryRegion the board provides to us (with its devices, RAM, etc) */
>>      MemoryRegion *board_memory;
>>  } ARMv7MState;
>> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
>> index 0b88baa..f26914a 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h
>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ typedef struct AspeedSoCState {
>>
>>  typedef struct AspeedSoCInfo {
>>      const char *name;
>> -    const char *cpu_model;
>> +    const char *cpu_type;
>>      uint32_t silicon_rev;
>>      hwaddr sdram_base;
>>      uint64_t sram_size;
>> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
>> index e2dce11..922a733 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.h
>> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ typedef struct STM32F205State {
>>      SysBusDevice parent_obj;
>>      /*< public >*/
>>
>> -    char *cpu_model;
>> +    char *cpu_type;
>>
>>      ARMv7MState armv7m;
>>
>> diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.h b/target/arm/cpu.h
>> index 5932ef1..3e1ba19 100644
>> --- a/target/arm/cpu.h
>> +++ b/target/arm/cpu.h
>> @@ -2002,6 +2002,9 @@ static inline bool arm_excp_unmasked(CPUState *cs, unsigned int excp_idx,
>>
>>  #define cpu_init(cpu_model) cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model)
>>
>> +#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX "-" TYPE_ARM_CPU
>> +#define ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME(name) (name ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX)
>> +
>>  #define cpu_signal_handler cpu_arm_signal_handler
>>  #define cpu_list arm_cpu_list
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/armv7m.c b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
>> index c8a11f2..9c45f26 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/armv7m.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/armv7m.c
>> @@ -163,10 +163,6 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>>      SysBusDevice *sbd;
>>      Error *err = NULL;
>>      int i;
>> -    char **cpustr;
>> -    ObjectClass *oc;
>> -    const char *typename;
>> -    CPUClass *cc;
>>
>>      if (!s->board_memory) {
>>          error_setg(errp, "memory property was not set");
>> @@ -175,29 +171,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>>
>>      memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(&s->container, 0, s->board_memory, -1);
>>
>> -    cpustr = g_strsplit(s->cpu_model, ",", 2);
>> -
>> -    oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
>> -    if (!oc) {
>> -        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", cpustr[0]);
>> -        g_strfreev(cpustr);
>> -        return;
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    cc = CPU_CLASS(oc);
>> -    typename = object_class_get_name(oc);
>> -    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
>> -    g_strfreev(cpustr);
>> -    if (err) {
>> -        error_propagate(errp, err);
>> -        return;
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(typename));
>> -    if (!s->cpu) {
>> -        error_setg(errp, "Unknown CPU model %s", s->cpu_model);
>> -        return;
>> -    }
>> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(object_new(s->cpu_type));
>
> Nice.
>
>>
>>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(s->cpu), OBJECT(&s->container), "memory",
>>                               &error_abort);
>> @@ -253,7 +227,7 @@ static void armv7m_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>>  }
>>
>>  static Property armv7m_properties[] = {
>> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", ARMv7MState, cpu_model),
>> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", ARMv7MState, cpu_type),
>
> Are we 100% sure the cpu-model property is never manually set by
> users?
>
>
>>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
>>  };
>>
>> @@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
>>     Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
>>
>>  DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
>> -                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
>> +                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
>>  {
>>      DeviceState *armv7m;
>>
>> -    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
>> -        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
>> -    }
>> -
>
> I was going to suggest doing the default_cpu_type stuff in a
> separate patch, but it might require touching those lines twice.
> So I guess this is OK.
>
>
>>      armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
>>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
>> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
>> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
>>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>> -    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
>> +    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
>>      qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
>>
>>      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
>> index 5529024..cd7bb94 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static const char *aspeed_soc_ast2500_typenames[] = {
>>  static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>>      {
>>          .name         = "ast2400-a0",
>> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
>> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
>>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
>> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>>      }, {
>>          .name         = "ast2400-a1",
>> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
>> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A1_SILICON_REV,
>>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
>> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>>      }, {
>>          .name         = "ast2400",
>> -        .cpu_model    = "arm926",
>> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926"),
>>          .silicon_rev  = AST2400_A0_SILICON_REV,
>>          .sdram_base   = AST2400_SDRAM_BASE,
>>          .sram_size    = 0x8000,
>> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static const AspeedSoCInfo aspeed_socs[] = {
>>          .wdts_num     = 2,
>>      }, {
>>          .name         = "ast2500-a1",
>> -        .cpu_model    = "arm1176",
>> +        .cpu_type     = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1176"),
>>          .silicon_rev  = AST2500_A1_SILICON_REV,
>>          .sdram_base   = AST2500_SDRAM_BASE,
>>          .sram_size    = 0x9000,
>> @@ -128,13 +128,10 @@ static void aspeed_soc_init(Object *obj)
>>  {
>>      AspeedSoCState *s = ASPEED_SOC(obj);
>>      AspeedSoCClass *sc = ASPEED_SOC_GET_CLASS(s);
>> -    char *cpu_typename;
>>      int i;
>>
>> -    cpu_typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, sc->info->cpu_model);
>> -    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), cpu_typename);
>> +    object_initialize(&s->cpu, sizeof(s->cpu), sc->info->cpu_type);
>>      object_property_add_child(obj, "cpu", OBJECT(&s->cpu), NULL);
>> -    g_free(cpu_typename);
>>
>
> Nice.
>
>>      object_initialize(&s->vic, sizeof(s->vic), TYPE_ASPEED_VIC);
>>      object_property_add_child(obj, "vic", OBJECT(&s->vic), NULL);
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/collie.c b/hw/arm/collie.c
>> index 2e69531..f043cd8 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/collie.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/collie.c
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>>  #include "hw/block/flash.h"
>>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>> -#include "qom/cpu.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
>>      .loader_start = SA_SDCS0,
>> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info collie_binfo = {
>>
>>  static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
>> @@ -35,11 +34,7 @@ static void collie_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
>>
>> -    if (!cpu_model) {
>> -        cpu_model = "sa1110";
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
>> +    s = sa1110_init(sysmem, collie_binfo.ram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
>>      pflash_cfi01_register(SA_CS0, NULL, "collie.fl1", 0x02000000,
>> @@ -64,6 +59,7 @@ static void collie_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>>  {
>>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)";
>>      mc->init = collie_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("sa1110");
>>  }
>>
>>  DEFINE_MACHINE("collie", collie_machine_init)
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
>> index f9e79f3..81f12e3 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/exynos4210.c
>> @@ -169,15 +169,11 @@ Exynos4210State *exynos4210_init(MemoryRegion *system_mem)
>>      Exynos4210State *s = g_new(Exynos4210State, 1);
>>      qemu_irq gate_irq[EXYNOS4210_NCPUS][EXYNOS4210_IRQ_GATE_NINPUTS];
>>      SysBusDevice *busdev;
>> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>>      DeviceState *dev;
>>      int i, n;
>>
>> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "cortex-a9");
>> -    assert(cpu_oc);
>> -
>>      for (n = 0; n < EXYNOS4210_NCPUS; n++) {
>> -        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
>> +        Object *cpuobj = object_new(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9"));
>>
>>          /* By default A9 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not currently
>>           * support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before realization.
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/gumstix.c b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
>> index d59d9ba..2b66bb7 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/gumstix.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/gumstix.c
>> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  static const int sector_len = 128 * 1024;
>>
>> @@ -86,7 +87,6 @@ static void connex_init(MachineState *machine)
>>
>>  static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      PXA2xxState *cpu;
>>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>>      int be;
>> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void verdex_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      uint32_t verdex_rom = 0x02000000;
>>      uint32_t verdex_ram = 0x10000000;
>>
>> -    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, cpu_model ?: "pxa270-c0");
>> +    cpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, verdex_ram, machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      dinfo = drive_get(IF_PFLASH, 0, 0);
>>      if (!dinfo && !qtest_enabled()) {
>> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static void verdex_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "Gumstix Verdex (PXA270)";
>>      mc->init = verdex_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo verdex_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
>> index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
>> @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
>>  static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
>>  {
>>      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
>> @@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
>>
>>      switch (machine_id) {
>>      case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
>> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
>> +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>>          break;
>>      case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
>> -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
>> +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
>>          break;
>> +    default:
>> +        assert(0);
>>      }
>
> Why not delete this switch statement completely and set
> default_cpu_type at midway_class_init() and
> highbank_class_init()?
>
>
>>
>>      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
>> -        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
>>          Object *cpuobj;
>>          ARMCPU *cpu;
>>
>> -        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
>> +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>>          cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
>>
>>          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
>> index d9530ed..44d247e 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/integratorcp.c
>> @@ -572,46 +572,19 @@ static struct arm_boot_info integrator_binfo = {
>>  static void integratorcp_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>>      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
>> -    char **cpustr;
>> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>> -    CPUClass *cc;
>>      Object *cpuobj;
>>      ARMCPU *cpu;
>> -    const char *typename;
>>      MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
>>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>      MemoryRegion *ram_alias = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>      qemu_irq pic[32];
>>      DeviceState *dev, *sic, *icp;
>>      int i;
>> -    Error *err = NULL;
>>
>> -    if (!cpu_model) {
>> -        cpu_model = "arm926";
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    cpustr = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 2);
>> -
>> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpustr[0]);
>> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
>> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
>> -        exit(1);
>> -    }
>> -    typename = object_class_get_name(cpu_oc);
>> -
>> -    cc = CPU_CLASS(cpu_oc);
>> -    cc->parse_features(typename, cpustr[1], &err);
>> -    g_strfreev(cpustr);
>> -    if (err) {
>> -        error_report_err(err);
>> -        exit(1);
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    cpuobj = object_new(typename);
>> +    cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>
> Nice.
>
>>
>>      /* By default ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board does not
>>       * currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled before
>> @@ -681,6 +654,7 @@ static void integratorcp_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>>  {
>>      mc->desc = "ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)";
>>      mc->init = integratorcp_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>>  }
>>
>>  DEFINE_MACHINE("integratorcp", integratorcp_machine_init)
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/mainstone.c b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
>> index fb268e6..2b13d30 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/mainstone.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/mainstone.c
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>>  #include "hw/sysbus.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  /* Device addresses */
>>  #define MST_FPGA_PHYS        0x08000000
>> @@ -121,13 +122,10 @@ static void mainstone_common_init(MemoryRegion *address_space_mem,
>>      int i;
>>      int be;
>>      MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>> -
>> -    if (!cpu_model)
>> -        cpu_model = "pxa270-c5";
>>
>>      /* Setup CPU & memory */
>> -    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
>> +    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, mainstone_binfo.ram_size,
>> +                      machine->cpu_type);
>>      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "mainstone.rom", MAINSTONE_ROM,
>>                             &error_fatal);
>>      memory_region_set_readonly(rom, true);
>> @@ -196,6 +194,7 @@ static void mainstone2_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>>  {
>>      mc->desc = "Mainstone II (PXA27x)";
>>      mc->init = mainstone_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
>>  }
>>
>>  DEFINE_MACHINE("mainstone", mainstone2_machine_init)
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/mps2.c b/hw/arm/mps2.c
>> index abb0ab6..aeaad80 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/mps2.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/mps2.c
>> @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ typedef enum MPS2FPGAType {
>>  typedef struct {
>>      MachineClass parent;
>>      MPS2FPGAType fpga_type;
>> -    const char *cpu_model;
>>      uint32_t scc_id;
>>  } MPS2MachineClass;
>>
>> @@ -107,14 +106,12 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      MPS2MachineState *mms = MPS2_MACHINE(machine);
>>      MPS2MachineClass *mmc = MPS2_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
>>      MemoryRegion *system_memory = get_system_memory();
>> +    MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
>>      DeviceState *armv7m, *sccdev;
>>
>> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = mmc->cpu_model;
>> -    }
>> -
>> -    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_model, mmc->cpu_model) != 0) {
>> -        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s", mmc->cpu_model);
>> +    if (strcmp(machine->cpu_type, mc->default_cpu_type) != 0) {
>> +        error_report("This board can only be used with CPU %s",
>> +                     mc->default_cpu_type);
>
> Suggestion for later: a generic mechanism to let the machine
> class validate the CPU type this way.  Maybe a
> MachineClass::configurable_cpu_type=false field?
>
>
>>          exit(1);
>>      }
>>
>> @@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ static void mps2_common_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      default:
>>          g_assert_not_reached();
>>      }
>> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", machine->cpu_model);
>> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", machine->cpu_type);
>>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), OBJECT(system_memory),
>>                               "memory", &error_abort);
>>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&mms->armv7m), true, "realized",
>> @@ -339,7 +336,7 @@ static void mps2_an385_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN385 FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
>>      mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN385;
>> -    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>>      mmc->scc_id = 0x41040000 | (385 << 4);
>>  }
>>
>> @@ -350,7 +347,7 @@ static void mps2_an511_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "ARM MPS2 with AN511 DesignStart FPGA image for Cortex-M3";
>>      mmc->fpga_type = FPGA_AN511;
>> -    mmc->cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3");
>>      mmc->scc_id = 0x4104000 | (511 << 4);
>>  }
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/musicpal.c b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
>> index 64c8e09..9b2000d 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/musicpal.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/musicpal.c
>> @@ -1570,7 +1570,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info musicpal_binfo = {
>>
>>  static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
>> @@ -1590,10 +1589,7 @@ static void musicpal_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      MemoryRegion *ram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>      MemoryRegion *sram = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>
>> -    if (!cpu_model) {
>> -        cpu_model = "arm926";
>> -    }
>> -    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model));
>> +    cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(machine->cpu_type));
>>
>>      /* For now we use a fixed - the original - RAM size */
>>      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(ram, NULL, "musicpal.ram",
>> @@ -1714,6 +1710,7 @@ static void musicpal_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>>  {
>>      mc->desc = "Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)";
>>      mc->init = musicpal_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>>  }
>>
>>  DEFINE_MACHINE("musicpal", musicpal_machine_init)
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/netduino2.c b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
>> index 3cfe332..4790824 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/netduino2.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/netduino2.c
>> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static void netduino2_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      DeviceState *dev;
>>
>>      dev = qdev_create(NULL, TYPE_STM32F205_SOC);
>> -    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-model", "cortex-m3");
>> +    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cpu-type", ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-m3"));
>>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(dev), true, "realized", &error_fatal);
>>
>>      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), machine->kernel_filename,
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/nseries.c b/hw/arm/nseries.c
>> index 503a3b6..b41850e 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/nseries.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/nseries.c
>> @@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ static void n8x0_init(MachineState *machine,
>>      struct n800_s *s = (struct n800_s *) g_malloc0(sizeof(*s));
>>      int sdram_size = binfo->ram_size;
>>
>> -    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_model);
>> +    s->mpu = omap2420_mpu_init(sysmem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      /* Setup peripherals
>>       *
>> @@ -1425,6 +1425,7 @@ static void n800_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420)";
>>      mc->init = n800_init;
>>      mc->default_boot_order = "";
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo n800_type = {
>> @@ -1440,6 +1441,7 @@ static void n810_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420)";
>>      mc->init = n810_init;
>>      mc->default_boot_order = "";
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm1136-r2");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo n810_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap1.c b/hw/arm/omap1.c
>> index 04e65ce..b3e7625 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/omap1.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/omap1.c
>> @@ -3850,7 +3850,7 @@ static int omap_validate_tipb_mpui_addr(struct omap_mpu_state_s *s,
>>
>>  struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
>>                  unsigned long sdram_size,
>> -                const char *core)
>> +                const char *cpu_type)
>>  {
>>      int i;
>>      struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
>> @@ -3858,12 +3858,9 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap310_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
>>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>>      SysBusDevice *busdev;
>>
>> -    if (!core)
>> -        core = "ti925t";
>> -
>>      /* Core */
>>      s->mpu_model = omap310;
>> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core));
>> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>>      s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
>>      s->sram_size = OMAP15XX_SRAM_SIZE;
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap2.c b/hw/arm/omap2.c
>> index 5821477..3f6076e 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/omap2.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/omap2.c
>> @@ -2250,7 +2250,7 @@ static const struct dma_irq_map omap2_dma_irq_map[] = {
>>
>>  struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
>>                  unsigned long sdram_size,
>> -                const char *core)
>> +                const char *cpu_type)
>>  {
>>      struct omap_mpu_state_s *s = g_new0(struct omap_mpu_state_s, 1);
>>      qemu_irq dma_irqs[4];
>> @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ struct omap_mpu_state_s *omap2420_mpu_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
>>
>>      /* Core */
>>      s->mpu_model = omap2420;
>> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, core ?: "arm1136-r2"));
>> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>>      s->sdram_size = sdram_size;
>>      s->sram_size = OMAP242X_SRAM_SIZE;
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
>> index 9809106..1236ec1 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/omap_sx1.c
>> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>>  #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  /*****************************************************************************/
>>  /* Siemens SX1 Cellphone V1 */
>> @@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ static void sx1_init(MachineState *machine, const int version)
>>      }
>>
>>      mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space, sx1_binfo.ram_size,
>> -                           machine->cpu_model);
>> +                           machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
>>      memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "omap_sx1.flash0-0", flash_size,
>> @@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v2_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2";
>>      mc->init = sx1_init_v2;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v2_type = {
>> @@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void sx1_machine_v1_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1";
>>      mc->init = sx1_init_v1;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo sx1_machine_v1_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/palm.c b/hw/arm/palm.c
>> index 64cf8ca..862f048 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/palm.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/palm.c
>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>>  #include "hw/devices.h"
>>  #include "hw/loader.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  static uint32_t static_readb(void *opaque, hwaddr offset)
>>  {
>> @@ -195,7 +196,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info palmte_binfo = {
>>
>>  static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>>      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>>      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
>>      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
>> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static void palmte_init(MachineState *machine)
>>      MemoryRegion *flash = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>      MemoryRegion *cs = g_new(MemoryRegion, 4);
>>
>> -    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, cpu_model);
>> +    mpu = omap310_mpu_init(address_space_mem, sdram_size, machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      /* External Flash (EMIFS) */
>>      memory_region_init_ram(flash, NULL, "palmte.flash", flash_size,
>> @@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ static void palmte_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>>  {
>>      mc->desc = "Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310)";
>>      mc->init = palmte_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("ti925t");
>>  }
>>
>>  DEFINE_MACHINE("cheetah", palmte_machine_init)
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
>> index c16657d..79b317a 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
>> @@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
>>
>>  /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
>>  PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
>> -                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
>> +                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
>>  {
>>      PXA2xxState *s;
>>      int i;
>>      DriveInfo *dinfo;
>>      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
>>
>> -    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
>> +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {
>
> Why are you using ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME here, if you are only
> checking if cpu_type starts with "pxa27"?
>
> I suggest adding a TODO here noting that we implement this using
> either a TYPE_ARM_PXA27 subclass (so we can use
> object_class_dynamic_cast()), or a ARMCPUClass field to identify
> if the CPU is pxa27.
>
>>          fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
>>          exit(1);
>>      }
>
> This would be another use case for a generic CPU model validation
> mechanism in MachineClass.
>
>
>> -    if (!revision)
>> -        revision = "pxa270";
>>
>> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, revision));
>> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
>>      s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
>>
>>      /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
>> @@ -2192,7 +2190,7 @@ PXA2xxState *pxa255_init(MemoryRegion *address_space, unsigned int sdram_size)
>>
>>      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
>>
>> -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255"));
>> +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa255")));
>>      s->reset = qemu_allocate_irq(pxa2xx_reset, s, 0);
>>
>>      /* SDRAM & Internal Memory Storage */
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/realview.c b/hw/arm/realview.c
>> index 76ff557..38e3278 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/realview.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/realview.c
>> @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>>  {
>>      ARMCPU *cpu = NULL;
>>      CPUARMState *env;
>> -    ObjectClass *cpu_oc;
>>      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
>>      MemoryRegion *ram_lo;
>>      MemoryRegion *ram_hi = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>> @@ -96,14 +95,8 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>>          break;
>>      }
>>
>> -    cpu_oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, machine->cpu_model);
>> -    if (!cpu_oc) {
>> -        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find CPU definition\n");
>> -        exit(1);
>> -    }
>> -
>>      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
>> -        Object *cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(cpu_oc));
>> +        Object *cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>          /* By default A9,A15 and ARM1176 CPUs have EL3 enabled.  This board
>>           * does not currently support EL3 so the CPU EL3 property is disabled
>> @@ -359,33 +352,21 @@ static void realview_init(MachineState *machine,
>>
>>  static void realview_eb_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = "arm926";
>> -    }
>>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB);
>>  }
>>
>>  static void realview_eb_mpcore_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = "arm11mpcore";
>> -    }
>>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_EB_MPCORE);
>>  }
>>
>>  static void realview_pb_a8_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a8";
>> -    }
>>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_PB_A8);
>>  }
>>
>>  static void realview_pbx_a9_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    if (!machine->cpu_model) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
>> -    }
>>      realview_init(machine, BOARD_PBX_A9);
>>  }
>>
>> @@ -396,6 +377,7 @@ static void realview_eb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)";
>>      mc->init = realview_eb_init;
>>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm926");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo realview_eb_type = {
>> @@ -412,6 +394,7 @@ static void realview_eb_mpcore_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->init = realview_eb_mpcore_init;
>>      mc->block_default_type = IF_SCSI;
>>      mc->max_cpus = 4;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("arm11mpcore");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo realview_eb_mpcore_type = {
>> @@ -426,6 +409,7 @@ static void realview_pb_a8_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8";
>>      mc->init = realview_pb_a8_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a8");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo realview_pb_a8_type = {
>> @@ -441,6 +425,7 @@ static void realview_pbx_a9_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex-A9";
>>      mc->init = realview_pbx_a9_init;
>>      mc->max_cpus = 4;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo realview_pbx_a9_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/spitz.c b/hw/arm/spitz.c
>> index 7f588ce..b6ddb7c 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/spitz.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/spitz.c
>> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>>  #include "hw/sysbus.h"
>>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
>>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  #undef REG_FMT
>>  #define REG_FMT                      "0x%02lx"
>> @@ -909,13 +910,10 @@ static void spitz_common_init(MachineState *machine,
>>      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1 = NULL;
>>      MemoryRegion *address_space_mem = get_system_memory();
>>      MemoryRegion *rom = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>> -
>> -    if (!cpu_model)
>> -        cpu_model = (model == terrier) ? "pxa270-c5" : "pxa270-c0";
>>
>
> Nice to see this go away.
>
>
>>      /* Setup CPU & memory */
>> -    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size, cpu_model);
>> +    mpu = pxa270_init(address_space_mem, spitz_binfo.ram_size,
>> +                      machine->cpu_type);
>>
>>      sl_flash_register(mpu, (model == spitz) ? FLASH_128M : FLASH_1024M);
>>
>> @@ -983,6 +981,7 @@ static void akitapda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270)";
>>      mc->init = akita_init;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo akitapda_type = {
>> @@ -998,6 +997,7 @@ static void spitzpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270)";
>>      mc->init = spitz_init;
>>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo spitzpda_type = {
>> @@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ static void borzoipda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270)";
>>      mc->init = borzoi_init;
>>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c0");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo borzoipda_type = {
>> @@ -1028,6 +1029,7 @@ static void terrierpda_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>      mc->desc = "Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270)";
>>      mc->init = terrier_init;
>>      mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
>> +    mc->default_cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa270-c5");
>>  }
>>
>>  static const TypeInfo terrierpda_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/stellaris.c b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
>> index 408c1a1..c8fa9da 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/stellaris.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>>  #include "hw/char/pl011.h"
>>  #include "hw/misc/unimp.h"
>> +#include "cpu.h"
>>
>>  #define GPIO_A 0
>>  #define GPIO_B 1
>> @@ -1225,8 +1226,7 @@ static stellaris_board_info stellaris_boards[] = {
>>    }
>>  };
>>
>> -static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
>> -                           stellaris_board_info *board)
>> +static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, stellaris_board_info *board)
>>  {
>>      static const int uart_irq[] = {5, 6, 33, 34};
>>      static const int timer_irq[] = {19, 21, 23, 35};
>> @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
>>      memory_region_add_subregion(system_memory, 0x20000000, sram);
>>
>>      nvic = armv7m_init(system_memory, flash_size, NUM_IRQ_LINES,
>> -                      kernel_filename, cpu_model);
>> +                       ms->kernel_filename, ms->cpu_type);
>>
>>      qdev_connect_gpio_out_named(nvic, "SYSRESETREQ", 0,
>>                                  qemu_allocate_irq(&do_sys_reset, NULL, 0));
>> @@ -1435,16 +1435,12 @@ static void stellaris_init(const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model,
>>  /* FIXME: Figure out how to generate these from stellaris_boards.  */
>>  static void lm3s811evb_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>> -    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>> -    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[0]);
>> +    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[0]);
>>  }
>>
>>  static void lm3s6965evb_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  {
>> -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
>> -    const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
>> -    stellaris_init(kernel_filename, cpu_model, &stellaris_boards[1]);
>> +    stellaris_init(machine, &stellaris_boards[1]);
>>  }
>>
>>  static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>> @@ -1453,6 +1449,7 @@ static void lm3s811evb_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>>
>>

...

>>
>>  static const TypeInfo lm3s6965evb_type = {
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>>
>>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
>>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
>> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
>> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
>>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
>> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>>  }
>>
>>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
>> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
>> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
>
> Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> manually?

In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.

In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
(Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.

Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.

Thanks,
Alistair


>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 2 months ago
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >>
> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >>  }
> >>
> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
> >
> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > manually?
> 
> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> 

I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
be sure.


> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.

Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.

> 
> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.

I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Alistair Francis 8 years, 2 months ago
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
>> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>> >>
>> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
>> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
>> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
>> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
>> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
>> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>> >>  }
>> >>
>> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
>> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
>> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
>> >
>> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
>> > manually?
>>
>> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
>> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
>> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
>> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
>>
>
> I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
> handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
> possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
> another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
> user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
> be sure.

Ah, that is trickier.

I guess that is possible to do, but the object setting logic should
handle the error gracefully and inform the user of the error.

>
>
>> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
>> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
>> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
>> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
>
> Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
> validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
> MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.
>
>>
>> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
>> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
>
> I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
> see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
> cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.

The Netduino2 will ignore any CPU options and always use a Cortex-m3.
I was wrong about Zynq-7000 though, it does respect the -cpu option.

Thanks,
Alistair

>
> --
> Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Alistair Francis 8 years, 2 months ago
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>>> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
>>> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>>> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>>> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>>> >>
>>> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
>>> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
>>> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
>>> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
>>> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>>> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>>> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
>>> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>>> >>  }
>>> >>
>>> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
>>> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
>>> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
>>> >
>>> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
>>> > manually?
>>>
>>> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
>>> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
>>> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
>>> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
>> handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
>> possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
>> another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
>> user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
>> be sure.
>
> Ah, that is trickier.
>
> I guess that is possible to do, but the object setting logic should
> handle the error gracefully and inform the user of the error.
>
>>
>>
>>> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
>>> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
>>> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
>>> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
>>
>> Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
>> validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
>> MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.

I just sent a RFC out that does this, let me know what you think.

The cover letter is called: "Add a valid_cpu_types property"

Thanks,
Alistair

>>
>>>
>>> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
>>> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
>>
>> I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
>> see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
>> cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.
>
> The Netduino2 will ignore any CPU options and always use a Cortex-m3.
> I was wrong about Zynq-7000 though, it does respect the -cpu option.
>
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
>>
>> --
>> Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 03:46:07PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> >> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >> >>
> >> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> >> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> >> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> >> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> >> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> >> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> >> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> >> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >> >>  }
> >> >>
> >> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> >> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> >> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
> >> >
> >> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> >> > manually?
> >>
> >> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> >> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> >> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> >> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
> > handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
> > possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
> > another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
> > user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
> > be sure.
> 
> Ah, that is trickier.
> 
> I guess that is possible to do, but the object setting logic should
> handle the error gracefully and inform the user of the error.

After looking at the code more closely, I think we can be 100%
sure the user doesn't rely on the property, because:

* TYPE_ARMV7M and TYPE_STM32F205_SOC are both sysbus devices
  with user_creatable=false, so the user can't instantiate them
  directly;
* The only places where those objects are realized inside the
  code are:
  * mps2_common_init()
  * netduino2_init()
  * stm32f205_soc_realize()
  * armv7m_init()
  Those functions always set the "cpu-model" property immediately
  before realize.

This means any value set by the user (e.g. using -global) would
be always overwritten before realize.

However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
"x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
document the fact that the property is not a stable
user/management interface.

> 
> >
> >
> >> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> >> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> >> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> >> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
> >
> > Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
> > validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
> > MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.
> >
> >>
> >> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> >> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
> >
> > I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
> > see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
> > cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.
> 
> The Netduino2 will ignore any CPU options and always use a Cortex-m3.
> I was wrong about Zynq-7000 though, it does respect the -cpu option.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alistair
> 
> >
> > --
> > Eduardo

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Peter Maydell 8 years, 1 month ago
On 9 September 2017 at 21:30, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
> that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
> "x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
> document the fact that the property is not a stable
> user/management interface.

We have lots and lots of properties on non-user-instantiated
devices that aren't intended as user level configurable
things...

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 1 month ago
On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:41:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 September 2017 at 21:30, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
> > that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
> > "x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
> > document the fact that the property is not a stable
> > user/management interface.
> 
> We have lots and lots of properties on non-user-instantiated
> devices that aren't intended as user level configurable
> things...

Well, we need to deal with them somehow, otherwise we have no
simple way to know if removing/renaming a property is really safe
or not.

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 1 month ago
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 17:30:14 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 03:46:07PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:  
> > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:  
> > >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:  
> > > [...]  
> > >> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> > >> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >> >>
> > >> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> > >> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> > >> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> > >> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> > >> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > >> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > >> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> > >> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >> >>  }
> > >> >>
> > >> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> > >> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> > >> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),  
> > >> >
> > >> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > >> > manually?  
> > >>
> > >> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> > >> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> > >> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> > >> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> > >>  
> > >
> > > I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
> > > handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
> > > possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
> > > another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
> > > user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
> > > be sure.  
> > 
> > Ah, that is trickier.
> > 
> > I guess that is possible to do, but the object setting logic should
> > handle the error gracefully and inform the user of the error.  
> 
> After looking at the code more closely, I think we can be 100%
> sure the user doesn't rely on the property, because:
> 
> * TYPE_ARMV7M and TYPE_STM32F205_SOC are both sysbus devices
>   with user_creatable=false, so the user can't instantiate them
>   directly;
> * The only places where those objects are realized inside the
>   code are:
>   * mps2_common_init()
>   * netduino2_init()
>   * stm32f205_soc_realize()
>   * armv7m_init()
>   Those functions always set the "cpu-model" property immediately
>   before realize.
> 
> This means any value set by the user (e.g. using -global) would
> be always overwritten before realize.
> 
> However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
> that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
> "x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
> document the fact that the property is not a stable
> user/management interface.
There is no much point in renaming to "x-cpu-model" as it will be deleted
right afterwards, I'd just delete "cpu-model" and use "x-cpu-type"
in this patch. I'm not a fun of 'x-' prefix and would prefer a flag
in property to mark it as internal. But it's out of scope of this series,
so I don't care much about naming at the moment and will use "x-cpu-type"
as you suggest.

> 
> >   
> > >
> > >  
> > >> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> > >> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> > >> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> > >> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.  
> > >
> > > Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
> > > validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
> > > MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.
> > >  
> > >>
> > >> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> > >> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.  
> > >
> > > I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
> > > see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
> > > cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.  
> > 
> > The Netduino2 will ignore any CPU options and always use a Cortex-m3.
> > I was wrong about Zynq-7000 though, it does respect the -cpu option.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Alistair
> >   
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eduardo  
> 


Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 17:30:14 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 03:46:07PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:  
> > > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:  
> > > >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:  
> > > > [...]  
> > > >> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > > >> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> > > >> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > > >> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > > >> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> > > >> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> > > >> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> > > >> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> > > >> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > > >> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > > >> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> > > >> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > > >> >>  }
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> > > >> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> > > >> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),  
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > > >> > manually?  
> > > >>
> > > >> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> > > >> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> > > >> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> > > >> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> > > >>  
> > > >
> > > > I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
> > > > handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
> > > > possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
> > > > another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
> > > > user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
> > > > be sure.  
> > > 
> > > Ah, that is trickier.
> > > 
> > > I guess that is possible to do, but the object setting logic should
> > > handle the error gracefully and inform the user of the error.  
> > 
> > After looking at the code more closely, I think we can be 100%
> > sure the user doesn't rely on the property, because:
> > 
> > * TYPE_ARMV7M and TYPE_STM32F205_SOC are both sysbus devices
> >   with user_creatable=false, so the user can't instantiate them
> >   directly;
> > * The only places where those objects are realized inside the
> >   code are:
> >   * mps2_common_init()
> >   * netduino2_init()
> >   * stm32f205_soc_realize()
> >   * armv7m_init()
> >   Those functions always set the "cpu-model" property immediately
> >   before realize.
> > 
> > This means any value set by the user (e.g. using -global) would
> > be always overwritten before realize.
> > 
> > However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
> > that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
> > "x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
> > document the fact that the property is not a stable
> > user/management interface.
> There is no much point in renaming to "x-cpu-model" as it will be deleted
> right afterwards, I'd just delete "cpu-model" and use "x-cpu-type"
> in this patch. I'm not a fun of 'x-' prefix and would prefer a flag
> in property to mark it as internal. But it's out of scope of this series,
> so I don't care much about naming at the moment and will use "x-cpu-type"
> as you suggest.

Peter pointed out that this is the case with lots of properties
on non-user-creatable devices.  So we can keep "cpu-type" for
consistency by now.

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:12:26 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:  
> [...]
> > >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> > >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >>
> > >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> > >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> > >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> > >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> > >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> > >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >>  }
> > >>
> > >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> > >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> > >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),  
> > >
> > > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > > manually?  
> > 
> > In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> > user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> > board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> > That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> >   
> 
> I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
> handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
> possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
> another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
> user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
> be sure.
> 
> 
> > In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> > would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> > (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> > saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
Agreed, it would be useful, however goal of the patch to drop
cpu_generic_init() preferably without changing behavior

so I'd leave extra stuff you mention upto board maintainers
to fix up on top.


> Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
> validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
> MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.
so far I've met 3 use cases for valid_cpu_types
 * no check - just try to use whatever user provided
 * check for concrete cpu models (leaf classes)
 * check for super-class based in partial cpu_model match

it is nice to have valid_cpu_types[] /I recall even trying out something similar/
but then series turns into mess where one tries to fix several things
and on top of it in all targets, hence I've decided first to get rid of
all cpu_model handling in boards and only then think about valid_cpus using cpu types.

I'd gladly give up 'valid cpus' to someone else more interested in it,
there are other users beside of ARM boards for it.
/seems Alistair is interested in it, at least in ARM part/


> > Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> > this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.  
> 
> I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
> see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
> cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.
in ARM case there are boards that use
 * '-cpu' provided model
 * '-cpu' provided model with valid cpu checks
 * 'hardcoded' cpu model ignoring '-cpu'/-global

I've thought commit message sufficiently described current situation and changes.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Alistair Francis 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:12:26 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:47:52PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> > >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
>> > >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> > >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
>> > >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>> > >>
>> > >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
>> > >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
>> > >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
>> > >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
>> > >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
>> > >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
>> > >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
>> > >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
>> > >>  }
>> > >>
>> > >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
>> > >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
>> > >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),
>> > >
>> > > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
>> > > manually?
>> >
>> > In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
>> > user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
>> > board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
>> > That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not talking about -cpu (no user-visible change in the
>> handling of -cpu should result from this patch), but about
>> possible cases where the user set the "cpu-model" property using
>> another mechanism, like -global.  Probably it's impossible for an
>> user to override the property successfully, but I would like to
>> be sure.
>>
>>
>> > In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
>> > would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
>> > (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
>> > saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
> Agreed, it would be useful, however goal of the patch to drop
> cpu_generic_init() preferably without changing behavior
>
> so I'd leave extra stuff you mention upto board maintainers
> to fix up on top.
>
>
>> Yeah, there are multiple cases in this patch where boards are
>> validating the CPU model, but not all boards do that.  A generic
>> MachineClass::valid_cpu_types[] field would be useful.
> so far I've met 3 use cases for valid_cpu_types
>  * no check - just try to use whatever user provided
>  * check for concrete cpu models (leaf classes)
>  * check for super-class based in partial cpu_model match
>
> it is nice to have valid_cpu_types[] /I recall even trying out something similar/
> but then series turns into mess where one tries to fix several things
> and on top of it in all targets, hence I've decided first to get rid of
> all cpu_model handling in boards and only then think about valid_cpus using cpu types.
>
> I'd gladly give up 'valid cpus' to someone else more interested in it,
> there are other users beside of ARM boards for it.
> /seems Alistair is interested in it, at least in ARM part/

Yeah, I'm interested in getting a generic framework to make this
possible in. Still just an RFC, I need to get back to that this week
and tidy it up.

Thanks,
Alistair

>
>
>> > Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
>> > this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
>>
>> I agree this is going on the right direction.  However, I don't
>> see any board that ignore the CPU option: all of them seem to use
>> cpu_model when creating the CPUs, already.
> in ARM case there are boards that use
>  * '-cpu' provided model
>  * '-cpu' provided model with valid cpu checks
>  * 'hardcoded' cpu model ignoring '-cpu'/-global
>
> I've thought commit message sufficiently described current situation and changes.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:47:52 -0700
Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> >> there are 2 use cases to deal with:
> >>   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
> >>   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
> >>      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> >>
> >> For the 1st
> >>   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
> >>   directly, which replaces:
> >>      typename = object_class_get_name(
> >>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> >>      object_new(typename)
> >>   with
> >>      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> >>   or
> >>      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
> >>   with
> >>      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> >>
> >> as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> >> translation and not needed code is removed.
> >>
> >> For the 2nd
> >>  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
> >>  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
> >>     is run and:
> >>     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
> >>        typename = object_class_get_name(
> >>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> >>        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> >>
> >>     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
> >>          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
> >>          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> >> as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> >> generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> >> if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> >> parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> >> within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> >> in boadr's machine_init code.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> >> CC: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com>
> >> CC: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >> CC: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
> >> CC: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
> >> CC: Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me>
> >> CC: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
> >> CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
> >> ---

[...]

> >>
> >>  static const TypeInfo lm3s6965evb_type = {
> >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >>
> >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> >>  }
> >>
> >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),  
> >
> > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > manually?  
> 
> In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
If SoC has fixed cpu type then I'd drop property.
I'd leave it upto board maintainers to cleanup not really needed
properties and make soc with fixed cpu type where it makes sense.

> In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
> 
> Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
right, this series just removes cpu_generic_init()/cpu_model in boards
everything else should be done as separate series.

> 
> Thanks,
> Alistair
> 
> 
> >
> >  
> 


Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:02:35PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:47:52 -0700
> Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> > >> there are 2 use cases to deal with:
> > >>   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
> > >>   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
> > >>      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> > >>
> > >> For the 1st
> > >>   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
> > >>   directly, which replaces:
> > >>      typename = object_class_get_name(
> > >>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > >>      object_new(typename)
> > >>   with
> > >>      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > >>   or
> > >>      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
> > >>   with
> > >>      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > >>
> > >> as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> > >> translation and not needed code is removed.
> > >>
> > >> For the 2nd
> > >>  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
> > >>  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
> > >>     is run and:
> > >>     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
> > >>        typename = object_class_get_name(
> > >>            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > >>        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> > >>
> > >>     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
> > >>          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
> > >>          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> > >> as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> > >> generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> > >> if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> > >> parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> > >> within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> > >> in boadr's machine_init code.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> > >> ---
> > >> CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> > >> CC: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com>
> > >> CC: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > >> CC: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
> > >> CC: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
> > >> CC: Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me>
> > >> CC: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
> > >> CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
> > >> ---
> 
> [...]
> 
> > >>
> > >>  static const TypeInfo lm3s6965evb_type = {
> > >> diff --git a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> index f61e735..1cd6374 100644
> > >> --- a/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> +++ b/hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c
> > >> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >>
> > >>      armv7m = DEVICE(&s->armv7m);
> > >>      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", 96);
> > >> -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", s->cpu_model);
> > >> +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", s->cpu_type);
> > >>      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > >>                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > >>      object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&s->armv7m), true, "realized", &err);
> > >> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void stm32f205_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev_soc, Error **errp)
> > >>  }
> > >>
> > >>  static Property stm32f205_soc_properties[] = {
> > >> -    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-model", STM32F205State, cpu_model),
> > >> +    DEFINE_PROP_STRING("cpu-type", STM32F205State, cpu_type),  
> > >
> > > Same as armv7m: are we 100% sure users are not setting this
> > > manually?  
> > 
> > In an embedded board like this it really doesn't make sense to let the
> > user overwrite the CPU. The SoC will take it as an option, but the
> > board (which creates the SoC) just blindly always uses the same CPU.
> > That feature is more for QOMificatoion then any real reason though.
> If SoC has fixed cpu type then I'd drop property.
> I'd leave it upto board maintainers to cleanup not really needed
> properties and make soc with fixed cpu type where it makes sense.
> 
> > In saying that I think a warning if the user tries to set the CPU
> > would make sense. I know that this issues comes up in other ARM boards
> > (Zynq-7000 has the same issue as well) so maybe a machine property
> > saying that the board doesn't accept custom CPUs would be a good idea.
> > 
> > Overall I think this patch is moving in the right direction though and
> > this CPU option being ignored existed before this series.
> right, this series just removes cpu_generic_init()/cpu_model in boards
> everything else should be done as separate series.

Agreed.  Except for actual bugs and opportunities to document
these cases in comments or commit messages, these things can be
done by other series.

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:31:52 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > there are 2 use cases to deal with:
> >   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
> >   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
> >      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> > 
> > For the 1st
> >   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
> >   directly, which replaces:
> >      typename = object_class_get_name(
> >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> >      object_new(typename)
> >   with
> >      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> >   or
> >      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
> >   with
> >      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > 
> > as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> > translation and not needed code is removed.
> > 
> > For the 2nd
> >  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
> >  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
> >     is run and:
> >     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
> >        typename = object_class_get_name(
> >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> >        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> > 
> >     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
> >          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
> >          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> > as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> > generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> > if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> > parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> > within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> > in boadr's machine_init code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> > ---
[...]

> > @@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
> >     Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
> >  
> >  DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
> > -                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
> > +                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
> >  {
> >      DeviceState *armv7m;
> >  
> > -    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
> > -        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> > -    }
> > -  
> 
> I was going to suggest doing the default_cpu_type stuff in a
> separate patch, but it might require touching those lines twice.
> So I guess this is OK.
I've have tried it, but yes it's more changes and there is also
chicken/egg problem, cleanest way I've stopped at is to get rid of
cpu_model fallback + cpu_generic_init() in one go.

 
> >      armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
> >      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
> > -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
> > +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
> >      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> >                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > -    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
> > +    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
> >      qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
> >  
> >      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);
[...]

> > diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
> >  static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> >  {
> >      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > @@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> >  
> >      switch (machine_id) {
> >      case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
> > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
> >          break;
> >      case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
> > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
> >          break;
> > +    default:
> > +        assert(0);
> >      }  
> 
> Why not delete this switch statement completely and set
> default_cpu_type at midway_class_init() and
> highbank_class_init()?
it would allow '-cpu foo' to take effect which isn't what current code does,
as series doesn't add valid_cpus[] check at the same time.

So here we do pretty much strait-forward conversion from cpu_model
to cpu_type and nothing else.

> 
> 
> >  
> >      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> > -        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
> >          Object *cpuobj;
> >          ARMCPU *cpu;
> >  
> > -        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
> > +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
> >          cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
> >  
> >          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,
[...]

> > diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > index c16657d..79b317a 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > @@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
> >  
> >  /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
> >  PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
> > -                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
> > +                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> >  {
> >      PXA2xxState *s;
> >      int i;
> >      DriveInfo *dinfo;
> >      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
> >  
> > -    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
> > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {  
> 
> Why are you using ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME here, if you are only
> checking if cpu_type starts with "pxa27"?
mainly to show that we are dealing with types here,
I can leave plain "pxa27" if you prefer.


> I suggest adding a TODO here noting that we implement this using
> either a TYPE_ARM_PXA27 subclass (so we can use
> object_class_dynamic_cast()), or a ARMCPUClass field to identify
> if the CPU is pxa27.
dynamic cast would be nice, but ("pxa27", 5) cover a range of cpu types
starting with this prefix, to use cast class structure should be reorganized
to make all pxa27 based cpus have a common pxa27 ancestor.
Or just use more verbose complete list of valid_cpus[]

It's out of scope of this patch including TODO comment,
all boards should be audited anyways to make proper use of valid_cpus[]
and adding not related TODO comments here doesn't seem right.


> >          fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
> >          exit(1);
> >      }  
> 
> This would be another use case for a generic CPU model validation
> mechanism in MachineClass.
yep, just applied to a range of cpus instead of typical leaf class.

[...]

> > diff --git a/hw/arm/strongarm.c b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > index c1145dd..3d1a231 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > @@ -1581,23 +1581,19 @@ static const TypeInfo strongarm_ssp_info = {
> >  
> >  /* Main CPU functions */
> >  StrongARMState *sa1110_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
> > -                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *rev)
> > +                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> >  {
> >      StrongARMState *s;
> >      int i;
> >  
> >      s = g_new0(StrongARMState, 1);
> >  
> > -    if (!rev) {
> > -        rev = "sa1110-b5";
> > -    }
> > -
> > -    if (strncmp(rev, "sa1110", 6)) {
> > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, "sa1110", 6)) {
> >          error_report("Machine requires a SA1110 processor.");
> >          exit(1);  
> 
> Same suggestion as on pxa270_init(): adding a TODO here noting
> that we implement this using either object_class_dynamic_cast(),
> or a ARMCPUClass field to identify if the CPU is sa1110.
same as pxa27, it's a case of range of cpus,
TODO is orthogonal to patch topic, so I'd prefer not to add it here.

> 
> 
> >      }
> >  
> > -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, rev));
> > +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
> >  
> >      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(&s->sdram, NULL, "strongarm.sdram",
> >                                           sdram_size);
> > diff --git a/hw/arm/tosa.c b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > index 8b757ff..75631f6 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info tosa_binfo = {
> >  
> >  static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> >  {
> > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > @@ -229,9 +228,6 @@ static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> >      TC6393xbState *tmio;
> >      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1;
> >  
> > -    if (!cpu_model)
> > -        cpu_model = "pxa255";
> > -  
> 
> Don't we need to set mc->default_cpu_type at
> tosapda_machine_init() to replace this?
board doesn't actually take user input and above remove code does nothing,
look into pxa255_init() where it uses hardcoded cpu model
  cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255")

another user connex_init() of pxa255_init() were already cleaned up
or didn't have junk to begin with

> >      mpu = pxa255_init(address_space_mem, tosa_binfo.ram_size);
> >  
> >      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "tosa.rom", TOSA_ROM, &error_fatal);
[...]

> > diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > index 05c038b..feeeeb2 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/cpu.c
> > +++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static ObjectClass *arm_cpu_class_by_name(const char *cpu_model)
> >      }
> >  
> >      cpuname = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 1);
> > -    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpuname[0]);
> > +    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s" ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX, cpuname[0]);  
> 
> What about doing the same we do in x86 and s390:
> 
>    g_strdup_printf(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("%s"), cpuname[0]);
sure

> 
> >      oc = object_class_by_name(typename);
> >      g_strfreev(cpuname);
> >      g_free(typename);
> > -- 
> > 2.7.4
> > 
> >   
> 
> 


Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Eduardo Habkost 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:11:59PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:31:52 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > there are 2 use cases to deal with:
> > >   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
> > >   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
> > >      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> > > 
> > > For the 1st
> > >   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
> > >   directly, which replaces:
> > >      typename = object_class_get_name(
> > >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > >      object_new(typename)
> > >   with
> > >      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > >   or
> > >      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
> > >   with
> > >      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > > 
> > > as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> > > translation and not needed code is removed.
> > > 
> > > For the 2nd
> > >  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
> > >  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
> > >     is run and:
> > >     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
> > >        typename = object_class_get_name(
> > >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > >        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> > > 
> > >     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
> > >          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
> > >          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> > > as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> > > generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> > > if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> > > parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> > > within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> > > in boadr's machine_init code.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> [...]
> 
> > > @@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
> > >     Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
> > >  
> > >  DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
> > > -                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
> > > +                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
> > >  {
> > >      DeviceState *armv7m;
> > >  
> > > -    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
> > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> > > -    }
> > > -  
> > 
> > I was going to suggest doing the default_cpu_type stuff in a
> > separate patch, but it might require touching those lines twice.
> > So I guess this is OK.
> I've have tried it, but yes it's more changes and there is also
> chicken/egg problem, cleanest way I've stopped at is to get rid of
> cpu_model fallback + cpu_generic_init() in one go.

OK

> 
>  
> > >      armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
> > >      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
> > > -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
> > > +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
> > >      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > >                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > > -    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
> > > +    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
> > >      qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
> > >  
> > >      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);
> [...]
> 
> > > diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
> > > --- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > +++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
> > >  static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> > >  {
> > >      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> > > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> > >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> > >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> > >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > > @@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> > >  
> > >      switch (machine_id) {
> > >      case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
> > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> > > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
> > >          break;
> > >      case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
> > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> > > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
> > >          break;
> > > +    default:
> > > +        assert(0);
> > >      }  
> > 
> > Why not delete this switch statement completely and set
> > default_cpu_type at midway_class_init() and
> > highbank_class_init()?
> it would allow '-cpu foo' to take effect which isn't what current code does,
> as series doesn't add valid_cpus[] check at the same time.

Oh, I see.


> 
> So here we do pretty much strait-forward conversion from cpu_model
> to cpu_type and nothing else.

OK.

> 
> > 
> > 
> > >  
> > >      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> > > -        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
> > >          Object *cpuobj;
> > >          ARMCPU *cpu;
> > >  
> > > -        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
> > > +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
> > >          cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
> > >  
> > >          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,
> [...]
> 
> > > diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > index c16657d..79b317a 100644
> > > --- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > +++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > @@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
> > >  
> > >  /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
> > >  PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
> > > -                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
> > > +                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> > >  {
> > >      PXA2xxState *s;
> > >      int i;
> > >      DriveInfo *dinfo;
> > >      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
> > >  
> > > -    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
> > > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {  
> > 
> > Why are you using ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME here, if you are only
> > checking if cpu_type starts with "pxa27"?
> mainly to show that we are dealing with types here,
> I can leave plain "pxa27" if you prefer.

Considering that we're dealing with a strncmp() hack that needs
ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME to work in a very specific way, I would prefer
to leave the actual argument to strncmp() explicitly visible,
until we implement another solution.

> 
> 
> > I suggest adding a TODO here noting that we implement this using
> > either a TYPE_ARM_PXA27 subclass (so we can use
> > object_class_dynamic_cast()), or a ARMCPUClass field to identify
> > if the CPU is pxa27.
> dynamic cast would be nice, but ("pxa27", 5) cover a range of cpu types
> starting with this prefix, to use cast class structure should be reorganized
> to make all pxa27 based cpus have a common pxa27 ancestor.
> Or just use more verbose complete list of valid_cpus[]
> 
> It's out of scope of this patch including TODO comment,
> all boards should be audited anyways to make proper use of valid_cpus[]
> and adding not related TODO comments here doesn't seem right.

True, now we have the plan of adding valid_cpus[], and this would
affect lots of other boards.  I won't mind if you prefer to not
add the TODO comment on this series.

> 
> 
> > >          fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
> > >          exit(1);
> > >      }  
> > 
> > This would be another use case for a generic CPU model validation
> > mechanism in MachineClass.
> yep, just applied to a range of cpus instead of typical leaf class.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > diff --git a/hw/arm/strongarm.c b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > index c1145dd..3d1a231 100644
> > > --- a/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > +++ b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > @@ -1581,23 +1581,19 @@ static const TypeInfo strongarm_ssp_info = {
> > >  
> > >  /* Main CPU functions */
> > >  StrongARMState *sa1110_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
> > > -                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *rev)
> > > +                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> > >  {
> > >      StrongARMState *s;
> > >      int i;
> > >  
> > >      s = g_new0(StrongARMState, 1);
> > >  
> > > -    if (!rev) {
> > > -        rev = "sa1110-b5";
> > > -    }
> > > -
> > > -    if (strncmp(rev, "sa1110", 6)) {
> > > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, "sa1110", 6)) {
> > >          error_report("Machine requires a SA1110 processor.");
> > >          exit(1);  
> > 
> > Same suggestion as on pxa270_init(): adding a TODO here noting
> > that we implement this using either object_class_dynamic_cast(),
> > or a ARMCPUClass field to identify if the CPU is sa1110.
> same as pxa27, it's a case of range of cpus,
> TODO is orthogonal to patch topic, so I'd prefer not to add it here.

OK

> 
> > 
> > 
> > >      }
> > >  
> > > -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, rev));
> > > +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
> > >  
> > >      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(&s->sdram, NULL, "strongarm.sdram",
> > >                                           sdram_size);
> > > diff --git a/hw/arm/tosa.c b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > index 8b757ff..75631f6 100644
> > > --- a/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > +++ b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info tosa_binfo = {
> > >  
> > >  static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> > >  {
> > > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> > >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> > >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> > >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > > @@ -229,9 +228,6 @@ static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> > >      TC6393xbState *tmio;
> > >      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1;
> > >  
> > > -    if (!cpu_model)
> > > -        cpu_model = "pxa255";
> > > -  
> > 
> > Don't we need to set mc->default_cpu_type at
> > tosapda_machine_init() to replace this?
> board doesn't actually take user input and above remove code does nothing,
> look into pxa255_init() where it uses hardcoded cpu model
>   cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255")
> 
> another user connex_init() of pxa255_init() were already cleaned up
> or didn't have junk to begin with

You are right, I didn't notice cpu_model was an unused variable.

> 
> > >      mpu = pxa255_init(address_space_mem, tosa_binfo.ram_size);
> > >  
> > >      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "tosa.rom", TOSA_ROM, &error_fatal);
> [...]
> 
> > > diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > index 05c038b..feeeeb2 100644
> > > --- a/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > +++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static ObjectClass *arm_cpu_class_by_name(const char *cpu_model)
> > >      }
> > >  
> > >      cpuname = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 1);
> > > -    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpuname[0]);
> > > +    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s" ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX, cpuname[0]);  
> > 
> > What about doing the same we do in x86 and s390:
> > 
> >    g_strdup_printf(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("%s"), cpuname[0]);
> sure
> 

I think this and the strncmp() line are the only suggestions that
I'm still keeping.  But they shouldn't block the series, so:

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

-- 
Eduardo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model -> cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
Posted by Igor Mammedov 8 years, 1 month ago
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:53:22 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:11:59PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:31:52 -0300
> > Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> > > > there are 2 use cases to deal with:
> > > >   1: fixed CPU models per board/soc
> > > >   2: boards with user configurable cpu_model and fallback to
> > > >      default cpu_model if user hasn't specified one explicitly
> > > > 
> > > > For the 1st
> > > >   drop intermediate cpu_model parsing and use const cpu type
> > > >   directly, which replaces:
> > > >      typename = object_class_get_name(
> > > >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > > >      object_new(typename)
> > > >   with
> > > >      object_new(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > > >   or
> > > >      cpu_generic_init(BASE_CPU_TYPE, "my cpu model")
> > > >   with
> > > >      cpu_create(FOO_CPU_TYPE_NAME)
> > > > 
> > > > as result 1st use case doesn't have to invoke not necessary
> > > > translation and not needed code is removed.
> > > > 
> > > > For the 2nd
> > > >  1: set default cpu type with MachineClass::default_cpu_type and
> > > >  2: use generic cpu_model parsing that done before machine_init()
> > > >     is run and:
> > > >     2.1: drop custom cpu_model parsing where pattern is:
> > > >        typename = object_class_get_name(
> > > >            cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model))
> > > >        [parse_features(typename, cpu_model, &err) ]
> > > > 
> > > >     2.2: or replace cpu_generic_init() which does what
> > > >          2.1 does + create_cpu(typename) with just
> > > >          create_cpu(machine->cpu_type)
> > > > as result cpu_name -> cpu_type translation is done using
> > > > generic machine code one including parsing optional features
> > > > if supported/present (removes a bunch of duplicated cpu_model
> > > > parsing code) and default cpu type is defined in an uniform way
> > > > within machine_class_init callbacks instead of adhoc places
> > > > in boadr's machine_init code.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> > > > ---  
> > [...]
> >   
> > > > @@ -285,20 +259,16 @@ static void armv7m_reset(void *opaque)
> > > >     Returns the ARMv7M device.  */
> > > >  
> > > >  DeviceState *armv7m_init(MemoryRegion *system_memory, int mem_size, int num_irq,
> > > > -                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_model)
> > > > +                      const char *kernel_filename, const char *cpu_type)
> > > >  {
> > > >      DeviceState *armv7m;
> > > >  
> > > > -    if (cpu_model == NULL) {
> > > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-m3";
> > > > -    }
> > > > -    
> > > 
> > > I was going to suggest doing the default_cpu_type stuff in a
> > > separate patch, but it might require touching those lines twice.
> > > So I guess this is OK.  
> > I've have tried it, but yes it's more changes and there is also
> > chicken/egg problem, cleanest way I've stopped at is to get rid of
> > cpu_model fallback + cpu_generic_init() in one go.  
> 
> OK
> 
> > 
> >    
> > > >      armv7m = qdev_create(NULL, "armv7m");
> > > >      qdev_prop_set_uint32(armv7m, "num-irq", num_irq);
> > > > -    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-model", cpu_model);
> > > > +    qdev_prop_set_string(armv7m, "cpu-type", cpu_type);
> > > >      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(armv7m), OBJECT(get_system_memory()),
> > > >                                       "memory", &error_abort);
> > > > -    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_model */
> > > > +    /* This will exit with an error if the user passed us a bad cpu_type */
> > > >      qdev_init_nofail(armv7m);
> > > >  
> > > >      armv7m_load_kernel(ARM_CPU(first_cpu), kernel_filename, mem_size);  
> > [...]
> >   
> > > > diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > > index 20e60f1..0d7190a 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
> > > > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ enum cxmachines {
> > > >  static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> > > >  {
> > > >      ram_addr_t ram_size = machine->ram_size;
> > > > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> > > >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> > > >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> > > >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > > > @@ -236,19 +235,20 @@ static void calxeda_init(MachineState *machine, enum cxmachines machine_id)
> > > >  
> > > >      switch (machine_id) {
> > > >      case CALXEDA_HIGHBANK:
> > > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a9";
> > > > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a9");
> > > >          break;
> > > >      case CALXEDA_MIDWAY:
> > > > -        cpu_model = "cortex-a15";
> > > > +        machine->cpu_type = ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("cortex-a15");
> > > >          break;
> > > > +    default:
> > > > +        assert(0);
> > > >      }    
> > > 
> > > Why not delete this switch statement completely and set
> > > default_cpu_type at midway_class_init() and
> > > highbank_class_init()?  
> > it would allow '-cpu foo' to take effect which isn't what current code does,
> > as series doesn't add valid_cpus[] check at the same time.  
> 
> Oh, I see.
> 
> 
> > 
> > So here we do pretty much strait-forward conversion from cpu_model
> > to cpu_type and nothing else.  
> 
> OK.
> 
> >   
> > > 
> > >   
> > > >  
> > > >      for (n = 0; n < smp_cpus; n++) {
> > > > -        ObjectClass *oc = cpu_class_by_name(TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpu_model);
> > > >          Object *cpuobj;
> > > >          ARMCPU *cpu;
> > > >  
> > > > -        cpuobj = object_new(object_class_get_name(oc));
> > > > +        cpuobj = object_new(machine->cpu_type);
> > > >          cpu = ARM_CPU(cpuobj);
> > > >  
> > > >          object_property_set_int(cpuobj, QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC,  
> > [...]
> >   
> > > > diff --git a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > > index c16657d..79b317a 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/arm/pxa2xx.c
> > > > @@ -2052,21 +2052,19 @@ static void pxa2xx_reset(void *opaque, int line, int level)
> > > >  
> > > >  /* Initialise a PXA270 integrated chip (ARM based core).  */
> > > >  PXA2xxState *pxa270_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
> > > > -                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *revision)
> > > > +                         unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> > > >  {
> > > >      PXA2xxState *s;
> > > >      int i;
> > > >      DriveInfo *dinfo;
> > > >      s = g_new0(PXA2xxState, 1);
> > > >  
> > > > -    if (revision && strncmp(revision, "pxa27", 5)) {
> > > > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("pxa27"), 5)) {    
> > > 
> > > Why are you using ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME here, if you are only
> > > checking if cpu_type starts with "pxa27"?  
> > mainly to show that we are dealing with types here,
> > I can leave plain "pxa27" if you prefer.  
> 
> Considering that we're dealing with a strncmp() hack that needs
> ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME to work in a very specific way, I would prefer
> to leave the actual argument to strncmp() explicitly visible,
> until we implement another solution.
> 
> > 
> >   
> > > I suggest adding a TODO here noting that we implement this using
> > > either a TYPE_ARM_PXA27 subclass (so we can use
> > > object_class_dynamic_cast()), or a ARMCPUClass field to identify
> > > if the CPU is pxa27.  
> > dynamic cast would be nice, but ("pxa27", 5) cover a range of cpu types
> > starting with this prefix, to use cast class structure should be reorganized
> > to make all pxa27 based cpus have a common pxa27 ancestor.
> > Or just use more verbose complete list of valid_cpus[]
> > 
> > It's out of scope of this patch including TODO comment,
> > all boards should be audited anyways to make proper use of valid_cpus[]
> > and adding not related TODO comments here doesn't seem right.  
> 
> True, now we have the plan of adding valid_cpus[], and this would
> affect lots of other boards.  I won't mind if you prefer to not
> add the TODO comment on this series.
> 
> > 
> >   
> > > >          fprintf(stderr, "Machine requires a PXA27x processor.\n");
> > > >          exit(1);
> > > >      }    
> > > 
> > > This would be another use case for a generic CPU model validation
> > > mechanism in MachineClass.  
> > yep, just applied to a range of cpus instead of typical leaf class.
> > 
> > [...]
> >   
> > > > diff --git a/hw/arm/strongarm.c b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > > index c1145dd..3d1a231 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/arm/strongarm.c
> > > > @@ -1581,23 +1581,19 @@ static const TypeInfo strongarm_ssp_info = {
> > > >  
> > > >  /* Main CPU functions */
> > > >  StrongARMState *sa1110_init(MemoryRegion *sysmem,
> > > > -                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *rev)
> > > > +                            unsigned int sdram_size, const char *cpu_type)
> > > >  {
> > > >      StrongARMState *s;
> > > >      int i;
> > > >  
> > > >      s = g_new0(StrongARMState, 1);
> > > >  
> > > > -    if (!rev) {
> > > > -        rev = "sa1110-b5";
> > > > -    }
> > > > -
> > > > -    if (strncmp(rev, "sa1110", 6)) {
> > > > +    if (strncmp(cpu_type, "sa1110", 6)) {
> > > >          error_report("Machine requires a SA1110 processor.");
> > > >          exit(1);    
> > > 
> > > Same suggestion as on pxa270_init(): adding a TODO here noting
> > > that we implement this using either object_class_dynamic_cast(),
> > > or a ARMCPUClass field to identify if the CPU is sa1110.  
> > same as pxa27, it's a case of range of cpus,
> > TODO is orthogonal to patch topic, so I'd prefer not to add it here.  
> 
> OK
> 
> >   
> > > 
> > >   
> > > >      }
> > > >  
> > > > -    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, rev));
> > > > +    s->cpu = ARM_CPU(cpu_create(cpu_type));
> > > >  
> > > >      memory_region_allocate_system_memory(&s->sdram, NULL, "strongarm.sdram",
> > > >                                           sdram_size);
> > > > diff --git a/hw/arm/tosa.c b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > > index 8b757ff..75631f6 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/arm/tosa.c
> > > > @@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static struct arm_boot_info tosa_binfo = {
> > > >  
> > > >  static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> > > >  {
> > > > -    const char *cpu_model = machine->cpu_model;
> > > >      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
> > > >      const char *kernel_cmdline = machine->kernel_cmdline;
> > > >      const char *initrd_filename = machine->initrd_filename;
> > > > @@ -229,9 +228,6 @@ static void tosa_init(MachineState *machine)
> > > >      TC6393xbState *tmio;
> > > >      DeviceState *scp0, *scp1;
> > > >  
> > > > -    if (!cpu_model)
> > > > -        cpu_model = "pxa255";
> > > > -    
> > > 
> > > Don't we need to set mc->default_cpu_type at
> > > tosapda_machine_init() to replace this?  
> > board doesn't actually take user input and above remove code does nothing,
> > look into pxa255_init() where it uses hardcoded cpu model
> >   cpu_generic_init(TYPE_ARM_CPU, "pxa255")
> > 
> > another user connex_init() of pxa255_init() were already cleaned up
> > or didn't have junk to begin with  
> 
> You are right, I didn't notice cpu_model was an unused variable.
> 
> >   
> > > >      mpu = pxa255_init(address_space_mem, tosa_binfo.ram_size);
> > > >  
> > > >      memory_region_init_ram(rom, NULL, "tosa.rom", TOSA_ROM, &error_fatal);  
> > [...]
> >   
> > > > diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > > index 05c038b..feeeeb2 100644
> > > > --- a/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > > +++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > > > @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static ObjectClass *arm_cpu_class_by_name(const char *cpu_model)
> > > >      }
> > > >  
> > > >      cpuname = g_strsplit(cpu_model, ",", 1);
> > > > -    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s-" TYPE_ARM_CPU, cpuname[0]);
> > > > +    typename = g_strdup_printf("%s" ARM_CPU_TYPE_SUFFIX, cpuname[0]);    
> > > 
> > > What about doing the same we do in x86 and s390:
> > > 
> > >    g_strdup_printf(ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME("%s"), cpuname[0]);  
> > sure
> >   
> 
> I think this and the strncmp() line are the only suggestions that
> I'm still keeping.  But they shouldn't block the series, so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Thanks!

I'll do fixups and squash 3/6 into 1/6 as suggested and respin.