[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: powerpc: add PVR compatibility check

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

If QEMU is started with KVM enabled and -cpu specified, and the CPU is not
from the family which the host is running on, an error should be displayed
so this the patch does.

Cc: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>

---

Is that correct to assume that the closest abstract class is a CPU family?
It is most likely true but I want to double check :)

Is there any nicer way of doing what the patch does?

Thanks.


---
 target-ppc/translate_init.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target-ppc/translate_init.c b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
index 3d3952c..6888214 100644
--- a/target-ppc/translate_init.c
+++ b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
@@ -8314,6 +8314,14 @@ static ObjectClass *ppc_cpu_class_by_name(const char 
*name)
     return ret;
 }
 
+ObjectClass *object_class_get_abstract_parent(ObjectClass *class)
+{
+    while (class && !object_class_is_abstract(class)) {
+        class = object_class_get_parent(class);
+    }
+    return class;
+}
+
 PowerPCCPU *cpu_ppc_init(const char *cpu_model)
 {
     PowerPCCPU *cpu;
@@ -8325,6 +8333,26 @@ PowerPCCPU *cpu_ppc_init(const char *cpu_model)
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * Make sure that if we run with a specific CPU in the command line when
+     * KVM is enabled, it still from the same CPU family as the host CPU
+     * because if they are not, the compatibility mode should be used.
+     */
+    if (strcmp(object_class_get_name(oc), TYPE_HOST_POWERPC_CPU)) {
+        ObjectClass *oc_host = object_class_by_name(TYPE_HOST_POWERPC_CPU);
+        ObjectClass *ocp = object_class_get_abstract_parent(oc);
+
+        if (oc_host) {
+            ObjectClass *ocp_host = object_class_get_abstract_parent(oc_host);
+            if (ocp != ocp_host) {
+                error_report("The chosen CPU \"%s\" is incompatible with the 
host CPU \"%s\"",
+                             object_class_get_name(oc),
+                             object_class_get_name(ocp_host));
+                return NULL;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     cpu = POWERPC_CPU(object_new(object_class_get_name(oc)));
 
     object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(cpu), true, "realized", &err);
-- 
1.8.4.rc4