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| author | Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> | 2020-09-10 13:33:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2020-09-11 20:22:52 +0300 |
| commit | 15e9e35cd1dec2bc138464de6bf8ef828df19235 (patch) | |
| tree | f3111c1722ecea4875fdd8030a551aeae814c321 /include/uapi | |
| parent | f6f6195b888c28a0b59ceb0562daff92a2be86c3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-15e9e35cd1dec2bc138464de6bf8ef828df19235.tar.xz | |
KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type
MIPS defines two kvm types:
#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE 0
#define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ 1
In Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst it is said that "You probably want to
use 0 as machine type", which implies that type 0 be the "automatic" or
"default" type. And, in user-space libvirt use the null-machine (with
type 0) to detect the kvm capability, which returns "KVM not supported"
on a VZ platform.
I try to fix it in QEMU but it is ugly:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg05629.html
And Thomas Huth suggests me to change the definition of kvm type:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg03281.html
So I define like this:
#define KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO 0
#define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ 1
#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE 2
Since VZ and TE cannot co-exists, using type 0 on a TE platform will
still return success (so old user-space tools have no problems on new
kernels); the advantage is that using type 0 on a VZ platform will not
return failure. So, the only problem is "new user-space tools use type
2 on old kernels", but if we treat this as a kernel bug, we can backport
this patch to old stable kernels.
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Message-Id: <1599734031-28746-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h index 3d8023474f2a..7d8eced6f459 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h @@ -790,9 +790,10 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt { #define KVM_VM_PPC_HV 1 #define KVM_VM_PPC_PR 2 -/* on MIPS, 0 forces trap & emulate, 1 forces VZ ASE */ -#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE 0 +/* on MIPS, 0 indicates auto, 1 forces VZ ASE, 2 forces trap & emulate */ +#define KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO 0 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ 1 +#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE 2 #define KVM_S390_SIE_PAGE_OFFSET 1 |