boards.h: Define new flag ignore_memory_transaction_failures

Define a new MachineClass field ignore_memory_transaction_failures.
If this is flag is true then the CPU will ignore memory transaction
failures which should cause the CPU to take an exception due to an
access to an unassigned physical address; the transaction will
instead return zero (for a read) or be ignored (for a write).  This
should be set only by legacy board models which rely on the old
RAZ/WI behaviour for handling devices that QEMU does not yet model.
New board models should instead use "unimplemented-device" for all
memory ranges where the guest will attempt to probe for a device that
QEMU doesn't implement and a stub device is required.

We need this for ARM boards, where we're about to implement support for
generating external aborts on memory transaction failures. Too many
of our legacy board models rely on the RAZ/WI behaviour and we
would break currently working guests when their "probe for device"
code provoked an external abort rather than a RAZ.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Message-id: 1504626814-23124-2-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/boards.h b/include/hw/boards.h
index 3363dd19fd..7f044d101d 100644
--- a/include/hw/boards.h
+++ b/include/hw/boards.h
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@ typedef struct {
  *    size than the target architecture's minimum. (Attempting to create
  *    such a CPU will fail.) Note that changing this is a migration
  *    compatibility break for the machine.
+ * @ignore_memory_transaction_failures:
+ *    If this is flag is true then the CPU will ignore memory transaction
+ *    failures which should cause the CPU to take an exception due to an
+ *    access to an unassigned physical address; the transaction will instead
+ *    return zero (for a read) or be ignored (for a write). This should be
+ *    set only by legacy board models which rely on the old RAZ/WI behaviour
+ *    for handling devices that QEMU does not yet model. New board models
+ *    should instead use "unimplemented-device" for all memory ranges where
+ *    the guest will attempt to probe for a device that QEMU doesn't
+ *    implement and a stub device is required.
  */
 struct MachineClass {
     /*< private >*/
@@ -171,6 +181,7 @@ struct MachineClass {
     bool rom_file_has_mr;
     int minimum_page_bits;
     bool has_hotpluggable_cpus;
+    bool ignore_memory_transaction_failures;
     int numa_mem_align_shift;
     void (*numa_auto_assign_ram)(MachineClass *mc, NodeInfo *nodes,
                                  int nb_nodes, ram_addr_t size);