Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add another sanity check to smp_parse() function

[Thomas Huth]

On 19/08/15 17:58, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:59:50PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The code in smp_parse already checks the topology information for
>> sockets * cores * threads < cpus and bails out with an error in
>> that case. However, it is still possible to supply a bad configuration
>> the other way round, e.g. with:
>>
>>  qemu-system-xxx -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=2
>>
>> QEMU then still starts the guest, with topology configuration that
>> is rather incomprehensible and likely not what the user wanted.
>> So let's add another check to refuse such wrong configurations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  vl.c | 8 +++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
>> index 5856396..c8d24b1 100644
>> --- a/vl.c
>> +++ b/vl.c
>> @@ -1224,7 +1224,13 @@ static void smp_parse(QemuOpts *opts)
>>              exit(1);
>>          }
>>  
>> -        max_cpus = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "maxcpus", 0);
>> +        max_cpus = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "maxcpus", cpus);
>> +        if (sockets * cores * threads > max_cpus) {
>> +            fprintf(stderr, "cpu topology: error: "
>> +                    "sockets (%u) * cores (%u) * threads (%u) > maxcpus 
>> (%u)\n",
>> +                    sockets, cores, threads, max_cpus);
>> +            exit(1);
>> +        }
> 
> I am always afraid of breaking existing setups when we do that, because
> there may be existing VMs running with these weird configurations, and
> people won't be able to live-migrate them to a newer QEMU.
> 
> But I think we really have to start refusing to run obviously broken
> configurations one day, or we will never fix this mess, so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> 
> I want to apply this through the x86 tree, but I would like to get some
> Acked-by from other maintainers first.

Ok, thanks!

So *ping* to the other CPU core maintainers here ... could I get some
more ACKs, please?

 Thomas