Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] i386: Disable TOPOEXT by default on "-cpu host"

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:18:52PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Enabling TOPOEXT is always allowed, but it can't be enabled
> blindly by "-cpu host" because it may make guests crash if the
> rest of the cache topology information isn't provided or isn't
> consistent.
> 
> This addresses the bug reported at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1613277
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---
>  target/i386/cpu.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
> index 723e02221e..3ac627978f 100644
> --- a/target/i386/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
> @@ -849,6 +849,12 @@ static FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
>          },
>          .cpuid_eax = 0x80000001, .cpuid_reg = R_ECX,
>          .tcg_features = TCG_EXT3_FEATURES,
> +        /*
> +         * TOPOEXT is always allowed but can't be enabled blindly by
> +         * "-cpu host", as it requires consistent cache topology info
> +         * to be provided so it doesn't confuse guests.
> +         */
> +        .no_autoenable_flags = CPUID_EXT3_TOPOEXT,
>      },
>      [FEAT_C000_0001_EDX] = {
>          .feat_names = {

Can confirm that this fixes the problem observed on the original AMD
Phenom machine, using qemu from git (@6ad908053) + your patch.
Therefore:

Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

Thanks,

Rich.

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