Other accelerators have their own headers: sysemu/hax.h, sysemu/hvf.h,
sysemu/kvm.h, sysemu/whpx.h. Only tcg_enabled() & friends sit in
qemu-common.h. This necessitates inclusion of qemu-common.h into
headers, which is against the rules spelled out in qemu-common.h's
file comment.
Move tcg_enabled() & friends into their own header sysemu/tcg.h, and
adjust #include directives.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190523143508.25387-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
[Rebased with conflicts resolved automatically, except for
accel/tcg/tcg-all.c]
Commit 0b8c89be7f7b added the hpt_maxpagesize capability to the migration
stream. This is okay for new machine types but it breaks backward migration
to older QEMUs, which don't expect the extra subsection.
Add a compatibility boolean flag to the sPAPR machine class and use it to
skip migration of the capability for machine types 4.0 and older. This
fixes migration to an older QEMU. Note that the destination will emit a
warning:
qemu-system-ppc64: warning: cap-hpt-max-page-size lower level (16) in incoming stream than on destination (24)
This is expected and harmless though. It is okay to migrate from a lower
HPT maximum page size (64k) to a greater one (16M).
Fixes: 0b8c89be7f7b "spapr: Add forgotten capability to migration stream"
Based-on: <20190522074016.10521-3-clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <155853262675.1158324.17301777846476373459.stgit@bahia.lan>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
spapr machine capabilities are supposed to be sent in the migration stream
so that we can sanity check the source and destination have compatible
configuration. Unfortunately, when we added the hpt-max-page-size
capability, we forgot to add it to the migration state. This means that we
can generate spurious warnings when both ends are configured for large
pages, or potentially fail to warn if the source is configured for huge
pages, but the destination is not.
Fixes: 2309832afd "spapr: Maximum (HPT) pagesize property"
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Rename qemu_getrampagesize() to qemu_minrampagesize(). While at it,
properly rename find_max_supported_pagesize() to
find_min_backend_pagesize().
s390x is actually interested into the maximum ram pagesize, so
introduce and use qemu_maxrampagesize().
Add a TODO, indicating that looking at any mapped memory backends is not
100% correct in some cases.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190417113143.5551-3-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
The qemu coding standard is to use CamelCase for type and structure names,
and the pseries code follows that... sort of. There are quite a lot of
places where we bend the rules in order to preserve the capitalization of
internal acronyms like "PHB", "TCE", "DIMM" and most commonly "sPAPR".
That was a bad idea - it frequently leads to names ending up with hard to
read clusters of capital letters, and means they don't catch the eye as
type identifiers, which is kind of the point of the CamelCase convention in
the first place.
In short, keeping type identifiers look like CamelCase is more important
than preserving standard capitalization of internal "words". So, this
patch renames a heap of spapr internal type names to a more standard
CamelCase.
In addition to case changes, we also make some other identifier renames:
VIOsPAPR* -> SpaprVio*
The reverse word ordering was only ever used to mitigate the capital
cluster, so revert to the natural ordering.
VIOsPAPRVTYDevice -> SpaprVioVty
VIOsPAPRVLANDevice -> SpaprVioVlan
Brevity, since the "Device" didn't add useful information
sPAPRDRConnector -> SpaprDrc
sPAPRDRConnectorClass -> SpaprDrcClass
Brevity, and makes it clearer this is the same thing as a "DRC"
mentioned in many other places in the code
This is 100% a mechanical search-and-replace patch. It will, however,
conflict with essentially any and all outstanding patches touching the
spapr code.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The spapr_caps cap-cfpc, cap-sbbc and cap-ibs are used to control the
availability of certain mitigations to the guest. These haven't been
implemented under TCG, it is unlikely they ever will be, and it is unclear
as to whether they even need to be.
As such, make failure to apply these capabilities under TCG non-fatal.
Instead we print a warning message to the user but still allow the guest
to continue.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20190301044609.9626-2-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Small style fix]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Introduce a new spapr_cap SPAPR_CAP_CCF_ASSIST to be used to indicate
the requirement for a hw-assisted version of the count cache flush
workaround.
The count cache flush workaround is a software workaround which can be
used to flush the count cache on context switch. Some revisions of
hardware may have a hardware accelerated flush, in which case the
software flush can be shortened. This cap is used to set the
availability of such hardware acceleration for the count cache flush
routine.
The availability of such hardware acceleration is indicated by the
H_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_FLUSH_ASSIST flag being set in the characteristics
returned from the KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20190301031912.28809-2-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Small style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The spapr_cap SPAPR_CAP_IBS is used to indicate the level of capability
for mitigations for indirect branch speculation. Currently the available
values are broken (default), fixed-ibs (fixed by serialising indirect
branches) and fixed-ccd (fixed by diabling the count cache).
Introduce a new value for this capability denoted workaround, meaning that
software can work around the issue by flushing the count cache on
context switch. This option is available if the hypervisor sets the
H_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_COUNT_CACHE flag in the cpu behaviours returned from
the KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20190301031912.28809-1-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Enable the large decrementer by default for the pseries-4.0 machine type.
It is disabled again by default_caps_with_cpu() for pre-POWER9 cpus
since they don't support the large decrementer.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20190301024317.22137-4-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Implement support to allow KVM guests to take advantage of the large
decrementer introduced on POWER9 cpus.
To determine if the host can support the requested large decrementer
size, we check it matches that specified in the ibm,dec-bits device-tree
property. We also need to enable it in KVM by setting the LPCR_LD bit in
the LPCR. Note that to do this we need to try and set the bit, then read
it back to check the host allowed us to set it, if so we can use it but
if we were unable to set it the host cannot support it and we must not
use the large decrementer.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20190301024317.22137-3-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Small style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Prior to POWER9 the decrementer was a 32-bit register which decremented
with each tick of the timebase. From POWER9 onwards the decrementer can
be set to operate in a mode called large decrementer where it acts as a
n-bit decrementing register which is visible as a 64-bit register, that
is the value of the decrementer is sign extended to 64 bits (where n is
implementation dependant).
The mode in which the decrementer operates is controlled by the LPCR_LD
bit in the logical paritition control register (LPCR).
>From POWER9 onwards the HDEC (hypervisor decrementer) was enlarged to
h-bits, also sign extended to 64 bits (where h is implementation
dependant). Note this isn't configurable and is always enabled.
On POWER9 the large decrementer and hdec are both 56 bits, as
represented by the lrg_decr_bits cpu class property. Since they are the
same size we only add one property for now, which could be extended in
the case they ever differ in the future.
We also add the lrg_decr_bits property for POWER5+/7/8 since it is used
to determine the size of the hdec, which is only generated on the
POWER5+ processor and later. On these processors it is 32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20190301024317.22137-2-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Small style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add spapr_cap SPAPR_CAP_LARGE_DECREMENTER to be used to control the
availability of the large decrementer for a guest.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20190301024317.22137-1-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Trivial style fix]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add the spapr cap SPAPR_CAP_NESTED_KVM_HV to be used to control the
availability of nested kvm-hv to the level 1 (L1) guest.
Assuming a hypervisor with support enabled an L1 guest can be allowed to
use the kvm-hv module (and thus run it's own kvm-hv guests) by setting:
-machine pseries,cap-nested-hv=true
or disabled with:
-machine pseries,cap-nested-hv=false
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
It is currently not possible to run a pseries-2.12 or older machine
with HV KVM. QEMU prints the following and exits right away.
qemu-system-ppc64: KVM doesn't support for base page shift 34
The "hpt-max-page-size" capability was recently added to spapr to hide
host configuration details from HPT mode guests. Its default value for
newer machine types is 64k.
For backwards compatibility, pseries-2.12 and older machine types need
a different value. This is handled as usual in a class init function.
The default value is 16G, ie, all page sizes supported by POWER7 and
newer CPUs, but HV KVM requires guest pages to be hpa contiguous as
well as gpa contiguous. The default value is the page size used to
back the guest RAM in this case.
Unfortunately kvmppc_hpt_needs_host_contiguous_pages()->kvm_enabled() is
called way before KVM init and returns false, even if the user requested
KVM. We thus end up selecting 16G, which isn't supported by HV KVM. The
default value must be set during machine init, because we can safely
assume that KVM is initialized at this point.
We fix this by moving the logic to default_caps_with_cpu(). Since the
user cannot pass cap-hpt-max-page-size=0, we set the default to 0 in
the pseries-2.12 class init function and use that as a flag to do the
real work.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
KVM HV has some limitations (deriving from the hardware) that mean not all
host-cpu supported pagesizes may be usable in the guest. At present this
means that KVM guests and TCG guests may see different available page sizes
even if they notionally have the same vcpu model. This is confusing and
also prevents migration between TCG and KVM.
This patch makes the environment consistent by always allowing the same set
of pagesizes. Since we can't remove the KVM limitations, we do this by
always applying the same limitations it has, even to TCG guests.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
The way we used to handle KVM allowable guest pagesizes for PAPR guests
required some convoluted checking of memory attached to the guest.
The allowable pagesizes advertised to the guest cpus depended on the memory
which was attached at boot, but then we needed to ensure that any memory
later hotplugged didn't change which pagesizes were allowed.
Now that we have an explicit machine option to control the allowable
maximum pagesize we can simplify this. We just check all memory backends
against that declared pagesize. We check base and cold-plugged memory at
reset time, and hotplugged memory at pre_plug() time.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
The way the POWER Hash Page Table (HPT) MMU is virtualized by KVM HV means
that every page that the guest puts in the pagetables must be truly
physically contiguous, not just GPA-contiguous. In effect this means that
an HPT guest can't use any pagesizes greater than the host page size used
to back its memory.
At present we handle this by changing what we advertise to the guest based
on the backing pagesizes. This is pretty bad, because it means the guest
sees a different environment depending on what should be host configuration
details.
As a start on fixing this, we add a new capability parameter to the
pseries machine type which gives the maximum allowed pagesizes for an
HPT guest. For now we just create and validate the parameter without
making it do anything.
For backwards compatibility, on older machine types we set it to the max
available page size for the host. For the 3.0 machine type, we fix it to
16, the intention being to only allow HPT pagesizes up to 64kiB by default
in future.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
spapr capabilities have an apply hook to actually activate (or deactivate)
the feature in the system at reset time. However, a number of capabilities
affect the setup of cpus, and need to be applied to each of them -
including hotplugged cpus for extra complication. To make this simpler,
add an optional cpu_apply hook that is called from spapr_cpu_reset().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Previously, the effective values of the various spapr capability flags
were only determined at machine reset time. That was a lazy way of making
sure it was after cpu initialization so it could use the cpu object to
inform the defaults.
But we've now improved the compat checking code so that we don't need to
instantiate the cpus to use it. That lets us move the resolution of the
capability defaults much earlier.
This is going to be necessary for some future capabilities.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
ppc_check_compat() is used in a number of places to check if a cpu object
supports a certain compatiblity mode, subject to various constraints.
It takes a PowerPCCPU *, however it really only depends on the cpu's class.
We have upcoming cases where it would be useful to make compatibility
checks before we fully instantiate the cpu objects.
ppc_type_check_compat() will now make an equivalent check, but based on a
CPU's QOM typename instead of an instantiated CPU object.
We make use of the new interface in several places in spapr, where we're
essentially making a global check, rather than one specific to a particular
cpu. This avoids some ugly uses of first_cpu to grab a "representative"
instance.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
In default_caps_with_cpu() we set spapr_cap_cfpc to broken for POWER8
processors and before.
Since we no longer require private l1d cache on POWER8 for this cap to
be set to workaround change this to default to broken for POWER7
processors and before.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The sxxm (speculative execution exploit mitigation) machine type is a
variant of the 2.12 machine type with workarounds for speculative
execution vulnerabilities enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Convert cap-ibs (indirect branch speculation) to a custom spapr-cap
type.
All tristate caps have now been converted to custom spapr-caps, so
remove the remaining support for them.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Don't explicitly list "?"/help option, trust convention]
[dwg: Fold tristate removal into here, to not break bisect]
[dwg: Fix minor style problems]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
There are currently 2 implemented types of spapr-caps, boolean and
tristate. However there may be a need for caps which don't fit either of
these options. Add a custom capability type for which a list of custom
valid strings can be specified and implement the get/set functions for
these. Also add a field for help text to describe the available options.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
[dwg: Change "help" option to "?" matching qemu conventions]
[dwg: Add ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED to avoid breaking bisect]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The spapr-cap cap-ibs can only have values broken or fixed as there is
no explicit workaround required. Currently setting the value workaround
for this cap will hit an assert if the guest makes the hcall
h_get_cpu_characteristics.
Report an error when attempting to apply the setting with a more helpful
error message.
Reported-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Change the macro that generates the vmstate migration field and the needed
function for the spapr-caps to take the full spapr-cap name. This has
the benefit of meaning this instance will be picked up when greping
for the spapr-caps and making it more obvious what this macro is doing.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add new tristate cap cap-ibs to represent the indirect branch
serialisation capability.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add new tristate cap cap-sbbc to represent the speculation barrier
bounds checking capability.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add new tristate cap cap-cfpc to represent the cache flush on privilege
change capability.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
spapr_caps are used to represent the level of support for various
capabilities related to the spapr machine type. Currently there is
only support for boolean capabilities.
Add support for tristate capabilities by implementing their get/set
functions. These capabilities can have the values 0, 1 or 2
corresponding to broken, workaround and fixed.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The vmstate description and the contained needed function for migration
of spapr_caps is the same for each cap, with the name of the cap
substituted. As such introduce a macro to allow for easier generation of
these.
Convert the three existing spapr_caps (htm, vsx, and dfp) to use this
macro.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The options field here is intended to list the available values for the
capability. It's not used yet, because the existing capabilities are
boolean.
We're going to add capabilities that aren't, but in that case the info on
the possible values can be folded into the .description field.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently spapr_caps are tied to boolean values (on or off). This patch
reworks the caps so that they can have any uint8 value. This allows more
capabilities with various values to be represented in the same way
internally. Capabilities are numbered in ascending order. The internal
representation of capability values is an array of uint8s in the
sPAPRMachineState, indexed by capability number.
Capabilities can have their own name, description, options, getter and
setter functions, type and allow functions. They also each have their own
section in the migration stream. Capabilities are only migrated if they
were explictly set on the command line, with the assumption that
otherwise the default will match.
On migration we ensure that the capability value on the destination
is greater than or equal to the capability value from the source. So
long at this remains the case then the migration is considered
compatible and allowed to continue.
This patch implements generic getter and setter functions for boolean
capabilities. It also converts the existings cap-htm, cap-vsx and
cap-dfp capabilities to this new format.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Decimal Floating Point has been available on POWER7 and later (server)
cpus. However, it can be disabled on the hypervisor, meaning that it's
not available to guests.
We currently handle this by conditionally advertising DFP support in the
device tree depending on whether the guest CPU model supports it - which
can also depend on what's allowed in the host for -cpu host. That can lead
to confusion on migration, since host properties are silently affecting
guest visible properties.
This patch handles it by treating it as an optional capability for the
pseries machine type.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
We currently have some conditionals in the spapr device tree code to decide
whether or not to advertise the availability of the VMX (aka Altivec) and
VSX vector extensions to the guest, based on whether the guest cpu has
those features.
This can lead to confusion and subtle failures on migration, since it makes
a guest visible change based only on host capabilities. We now have a
better mechanism for this, in spapr capabilities flags, which explicitly
depend on user options rather than host capabilities.
Rework the advertisement of VSX and VMX based on a new VSX capability. We
no longer bother with a conditional for VMX support, because every CPU
that's ever been supported by the pseries machine type supports VMX.
NOTE: Some userspace distributions (e.g. RHEL7.4) already rely on
availability of VSX in libc, so using cap-vsx=off may lead to a fatal
SIGILL in init.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Now that the "pseries" machine type implements optional capabilities (well,
one so far) there's the possibility of having different capabilities
available at either end of a migration. Although arguably a user error,
it would be nice to catch this situation and fail as gracefully as we can.
This adds code to migrate the capabilities flags. These aren't pulled
directly into the destination's configuration since what the user has
specified on the destination command line should take precedence. However,
they are checked against the destination capabilities.
If the source was using a capability which is absent on the destination,
we fail the migration, since that could easily cause a guest crash or other
bad behaviour. If the source lacked a capability which is present on the
destination we warn, but allow the migration to proceed.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
This adds an spapr capability bit for Hardware Transactional Memory. It is
enabled by default for pseries-2.11 and earlier machine types. with POWER8
or later CPUs (as it must be, since earlier qemu versions would implicitly
allow it). However it is disabled by default for the latest pseries-2.12
machine type.
This means that with the latest machine type, HTM will not be available,
regardless of CPU, unless it is explicitly enabled on the command line.
That change is made on the basis that:
* This way running with -M pseries,accel=tcg will start with whatever cpu
and will provide the same guest visible model as with accel=kvm.
- More specifically, this means existing make check tests don't have
to be modified to use cap-htm=off in order to run with TCG
* We hope to add a new "HTM without suspend" feature in the not too
distant future which could work on both POWER8 and POWER9 cpus, and
could be enabled by default.
* Best guesses suggest that future POWER cpus may well only support the
HTM-without-suspend model, not the (frankly, horribly overcomplicated)
POWER8 style HTM with suspend.
* Anecdotal evidence suggests problems with HTM being enabled when it
wasn't wanted are more common than being missing when it was.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Because PAPR is a paravirtual environment access to certain CPU (or other)
facilities can be blocked by the hypervisor. PAPR provides ways to
advertise in the device tree whether or not those features are available to
the guest.
In some places we automatically determine whether to make a feature
available based on whether our host can support it, in most cases this is
based on limitations in the available KVM implementation.
Although we correctly advertise this to the guest, it means that host
factors might make changes to the guest visible environment which is bad:
as well as generaly reducing reproducibility, it means that a migration
between different host environments can easily go bad.
We've mostly gotten away with it because the environments considered mature
enough to be well supported (basically, KVM on POWER8) have had consistent
feature availability. But, it's still not right and some limitations on
POWER9 is going to make it more of an issue in future.
This introduces an infrastructure for defining "sPAPR capabilities". These
are set by default based on the machine version, masked by the capabilities
of the chosen cpu, but can be overriden with machine properties.
The intention is at reset time we verify that the requested capabilities
can be supported on the host (considering TCG, KVM and/or host cpu
limitations). If not we simply fail, rather than silently modifying the
advertised featureset to the guest.
This does mean that certain configurations that "worked" may now fail, but
such configurations were already more subtly broken.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
