Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: exit gentfully when CPU doesn't support requested compat mode

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:26:02AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> QEMU currently aborts if the user asks something unrealistic like power9
> compat mode with a POWER8 CPU for example. Since this isn't a bug in QEMU,
> there's no point in aborting. The same goes with the other possible error
> paths in ppc_set_compat_all(). Let's just terminate QEMU instead.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

Heh, I already folded an identical fix into ppc-for-2.10.


> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index b2217f39eeea..d0cc124935c0 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ static void ppc_spapr_reset(void)
>          spapr_ovec_cleanup(spapr->ov5_cas);
>          spapr->ov5_cas = spapr_ovec_new();
>  
> -        ppc_set_compat_all(spapr->max_compat_pvr, &error_abort);
> +        ppc_set_compat_all(spapr->max_compat_pvr, &error_fatal);
>      }
>  
>      fdt = spapr_build_fdt(spapr, rtas_addr, spapr->rtas_size);
> 

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