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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU clas


From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU class per family if KVM"
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:50:26 +1100
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On 03/05/2015 01:55 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 03.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy:
On 03/04/2015 07:43 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 03.03.15 01:42, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 03/03/2015 12:51 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 02.03.15 14:42, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 02.03.2015 um 14:37 schrieb Alexander Graf:
On 01.03.15 01:31, Andreas Färber wrote:
This reverts commit 5b79b1cadd3e565b6d1a5ba59764bd47af58b271 to
avoid
double-registration of types:

     Registering `POWER5+-powerpc64-cpu' which already exists

Taking the textual description of a CPU type as part of a new type
name
is plain wrong, and so is unconditionally registering a new type
here.

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

Doesn't this break p8 support?

Maybe, but p5 support was in longer and this is definitely a
regression
and really really wrong. If you know a way to fix it without
handing it
back to the IBM guys for more thought, feel free to give it a shot.

I honestly don't fully remember what this was about. Wasn't this our
special KVM class that we use to create a compatible cpu type on the
fly?

Alexey, please take a look at it.


I sent a note yesterday :-/ Here it is again:

With this revert, running qemu with HV KVM and -cpu POWER7 fails on real
POWER7 machine as my machine has pvr 003f 0201 and POWER7 is an alias of
POWER7_v2.3 (pvr 003f 0203); and this is what I tried to fix at the
first place. QEMU looks at classes first, and if not found - at aliases,
so this worked.

I would rename "POWER5+" to "POWER5+_0.0" and make "POWER5+" an alias
for POWER5+_v2.1 (or POWER5+_0.0).

Care to send a patch?

I wonder if Andreas has a better solution to my initial problem - he
obviously won't like the proposed patch :)

Quite predictable, am I? ;)

Could you please explain in detail what problem you are seeing on POWER8
without this patch?

 From your new patch it rather sounds as if this was totally unrelated to
-cpu host and a new KVM-only feature, reinforcing my feeling that my
function is the wrong place for your code.

Also, as I pointed out, the description cannot safely be used as part of
the type name, as it may contain prohibited characters, so this still
needs fixing.

So I can duplicate the CPU family name in PowerPCCPUClass. Which will always be the same as DeviceClass::desc. Well, it may be the right thing to do.


And for sure, if registering new types is indeed needed here, then a
check is needed for whether that type already exists and appropriate
error handling.

I'll cook a patch for this.

> I just don't understand why that is needed at all with
-cpu host taking the PVR as you say is needed here.

If you can precisely tell me what it is that you need then I'd be happy
to cook up a patch.

I thought I did... I need a way to run QEMU under HV KVM with a CPU name, just like this - -cpu POWER7 on _any_ real POWER7 CPU (v2.1, v2.3 or even POWER7+). Simply because all CPUs from the family behave the same. But HV KVM cannot virtualize PVR, it is a hardware limitation. So this is what my original patch fixed/bandaid'd.

The original request for -cpu POWER7 vs. -cpu host came from libvirt for migration purposes - afair the issue was that the destination QEMU must not start if it is POWER8-host and the source is POWER7-host so trying -cpu POWER7 will fail on POWER8 (but -cpu host would work and this would be wrong); but migration between POWER7 2.1 and POWER7 2.3 should still work.

And in general there is no good reason why -cpu POWER7 cannot work on any POWER7 CPU.

I could try adding a dynamic alias for "POWER7" to "host" but at the moment aliases are static so new dynamic class seemed simpler.


--
Alexey



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