[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Check SMT based on KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE

[Jose Ricardo Ziviani]

If one defines a P9 guest like -smp sockets=1,cores=1,threads=8 QEMU will 
silently changes threads to 4:

(guest) # lscpu
Architecture:          ppc64le
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Thread(s) per core:    4
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
...
(qemu) info cpus
* CPU #0: nip=0xc0000000000db9cc thread_id=9440
  CPU #1: nip=0xc0000000000db9cc thread_id=9441
  CPU #2: nip=0xc0000000000db9cc thread_id=9442
  CPU #3: nip=0xc0000000000db9cc thread_id=9443
  CPU #4: nip=0x0000000000000100 (halted) thread_id=9444
  CPU #5: nip=0x0000000000000100 (halted) thread_id=9445
  CPU #6: nip=0x0000000000000100 (halted) thread_id=9446
  CPU #7: nip=0x0000000000000100 (halted) thread_id=9447

This behavior is causing confusion and QEMU will crash if one tries to hotplug 
a CPU. QEMU already has a number of SMT sane checking and this patch adds 
another one: it verifies if KVM supports (KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE) the 
required number of threads instead of impose a value defined in the compat 
table.

Result:
(guest) # lscpu
Architecture:          ppc64le
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                8
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
Thread(s) per core:    8
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             1
...
(qemu) info cpus
* CPU #0: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80197
  CPU #1: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80198
  CPU #2: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80199
  CPU #3: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80200
  CPU #4: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80201
  CPU #5: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80202
  CPU #6: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80203
  CPU #7: nip=0xc0000000000d30ac thread_id=80204

This patch is based on ppc-for-2.12

Jose Ricardo Ziviani (1):
  spapr: Check SMT based on KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE

 hw/ppc/spapr.c       | 14 +++++++++++++-
 hw/ppc/trace-events  |  1 +
 target/ppc/kvm.c     |  5 +++++
 target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h |  6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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