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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option |
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Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:53:14 +0100 |
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Am 05.11.2013 10:52, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 05/11/2013 10:16, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
>>
>> On 05.11.2013, at 10:06, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Il 30/09/2013 14:57, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>>>> Why is the option under -machine instead of -cpu?
>>>> Because it is still the same CPU and the guest will still read the real
>>>> PVR from the hardware (which it may not support but this is why we need
>>>> compatibility mode).
>>>
>>> How do you support migration from a newer to an older CPU then? I think
>>> the guest should never see anything about the hardware CPU model.
>>
>> POWER can't model that. It always leaks the host CPU information into the
>> guest. It's the guest kernel's responsibility to not expose that change to
>> user space.
>>
>> Yes, it's broken :). I'm not even sure there is any sensible way to do live
>> migration between different CPU types.
>
> Still in my opinion it should be "-cpu", not "-machine". Even if it's
> just a "virtual" CPU model.
PowerPC currently does not have -cpu option parsing. If you need to
implement it, I would ask for a generic hook in CPUClass set by
TYPE_POWERPC_CPU, so that the logic does not get hardcoded in cpu_init,
and for the p=v parsing logic to be so generic as to just set property p
to value v on the CPU instance. I.e. please make the compatibility
settings a static property or dynamic property of the CPU.
Maybe the parsing code could even live in generic qom/cpu.c, overridden
by x86/sparc and reused for arm? Somewhere down my to-do list but
patches appreciated...
Andreas
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- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/11/05
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option,
Andreas Färber <=
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Igor Mammedov, 2013/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Igor Mammedov, 2013/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Andreas Färber, 2013/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Andreas Färber, 2013/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Andreas Färber, 2013/11/07
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 0/2] spapr: add "compat" machine option, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/08
- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 1/2] cpu: add suboptions support, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/08