kvm: better advice for failed s390x startup

If KVM_CREATE failed on s390x, we print a hint to enable the switch_amode
kernel parameter. This only applies to old kernels, and only if the
error was -EINVAL. Moreover, with new kernels, the most likely reason
for -EINVAL is that pgstes were not enabled.

Let's update the error message to give a better hint on where things
may need fixing.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Cornelia Huck 2015-04-23 17:03:46 +02:00
parent 6cb1e49de5
commit 2c80e996e4

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@ -1544,8 +1544,17 @@ static int kvm_init(MachineState *ms)
strerror(-ret));
#ifdef TARGET_S390X
fprintf(stderr, "Please add the 'switch_amode' kernel parameter to "
"your host kernel command line\n");
if (ret == -EINVAL) {
fprintf(stderr,
"Host kernel setup problem detected. Please verify:\n");
fprintf(stderr, "- for kernels supporting the switch_amode or"
" user_mode parameters, whether\n");
fprintf(stderr,
" user space is running in primary address space\n");
fprintf(stderr,
"- for kernels supporting the vm.allocate_pgste sysctl, "
"whether it is enabled\n");
}
#endif
goto err;
}