From: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, Pedro Barbuda <pbarbuda@microsoft.com>,
Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>,
Akshey Taneja <aksheynew.tanejanew@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/18] whpx: i386: do not require ProcessorFeaturesBanks on legacy Windows
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:57:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027155737.59271-14-mohamed@unpredictable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027155737.59271-1-mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
From: Akshey Taneja <aksheynew.tanejanew@gmail.com>
WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks and the matching partition
property are implemented starting from Windows 10 version 20H1.
On earlier Windows 10 releases, the capability query returns
WHV_E_UNKNOWN_CAPABILITY (0x80370300) and whpx_accel_init()
aborts with -ENOSPC, reported to the user as "failed to initialize
whpx: No space left on device". This regressed older Windows 10
releases in 8b87283ce4 ("whpx: i386: enable all supported host features").
Fall back to the original single-bank WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeatures
on legacy hosts and skip the corresponding SetPartitionProperty, which
restores the pre-8b87283ce4 behaviour there.
Reported-on: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 17763, Intel i7-6700
Signed-off-by: Akshey Taneja <aksheynew.tanejanew@gmail.com>
[Editing patch for reflecting the availability of this API, which is
available in Windows 10 version 2004 onwards]
Reviewed-by: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
---
target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c b/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
index 065cfacf3b..7552e9f4da 100644
--- a/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
+++ b/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
@@ -3331,13 +3331,33 @@ int whpx_accel_init(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms)
memset(&processor_features, 0, sizeof(WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES_BANKS));
processor_features.BanksCount = 2;
- hr = whp_dispatch.WHvGetCapability(
- WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks, &processor_features,
- sizeof(WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES_BANKS), &whpx_cap_size);
- if (FAILED(hr)) {
- error_report("WHPX: Failed to get processor features, hr=%08lx", hr);
- ret = -ENOSPC;
- goto error;
+ if (whpx_is_legacy_os()) {
+ /*
+ * WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks is implemented starting
+ * from Windows 10 version 20H2 (19041). Fall back to the single-bank
+ * capability on earlier Windows 10 releases.
+ */
+ WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES legacy_features = {0};
+
+ processor_features.BanksCount = 1;
+ hr = whp_dispatch.WHvGetCapability(
+ WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeatures, &legacy_features,
+ sizeof(legacy_features), &whpx_cap_size);
+ if (FAILED(hr)) {
+ warn_report("WHPX: Failed to get legacy processor features, "
+ "hr=%08lx", hr);
+ } else {
+ processor_features.Bank0 = legacy_features;
+ }
+ } else {
+ hr = whp_dispatch.WHvGetCapability(
+ WHvCapabilityCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks, &processor_features,
+ sizeof(WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES_BANKS), &whpx_cap_size);
+ if (FAILED(hr)) {
+ error_report("WHPX: Failed to get processor features, hr=%08lx", hr);
+ ret = -ENOSPC;
+ goto error;
+ }
}
whpx_rdtsc_cap = processor_features.Bank0.RdtscpSupport;
@@ -3382,15 +3402,22 @@ int whpx_accel_init(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms)
}
}
- hr = whp_dispatch.WHvSetPartitionProperty(
- whpx->partition,
- WHvPartitionPropertyCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks,
- &processor_features,
- sizeof(WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES_BANKS));
- if (FAILED(hr)) {
- error_report("WHPX: Failed to set processor features, hr=%08lx", hr);
- ret = -EINVAL;
- goto error;
+ /*
+ * The matching partition property is also Windows Server 2022 and later.
+ * Legacy hosts simply keep the features the hypervisor gave them, which
+ * is how WHPX behaved before the banked feature set was introduced.
+ */
+ if (!whpx_is_legacy_os()) {
+ hr = whp_dispatch.WHvSetPartitionProperty(
+ whpx->partition,
+ WHvPartitionPropertyCodeProcessorFeaturesBanks,
+ &processor_features,
+ sizeof(WHV_PROCESSOR_FEATURES_BANKS));
+ if (FAILED(hr)) {
+ error_report("WHPX: Failed to set processor features, hr=%08lx", hr);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto error;
+ }
}
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-27 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-27 15:57 [PATCH v2 00/18] whpx: i386: updates for QEMU 11.2 Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/18] target/i386/whpx: fix VMX capability MSR values Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/18] target/i386/whpx: whpx_get_xsave_state error handling Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/18] whpx: i386: get APIC state before VM save Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 04/18] whpx: i386: fix TPR encodings for local APIC Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/18] whpx: i386: save/restore xss Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/18] whpx: i386: make nested virtualisation init failure non-fatal Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/18] whpx: i386: allow migration for restricted scenarios Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/18] whpx: i386: avoid updating hflags for vmexits Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/18] target/i386/whpx: handle processor reset Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/18] target/arm/whpx: " Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/18] whpx: apic: migrate APIC implementation to new interface Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/18] whpx: i386: forward the dynamic EBX of CPUID[0xD] sub-leaves 0 and 1, not 1 and 2 Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` Mohamed Mediouni [this message]
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 14/18] whpx: i386: fall back to xAPIC when the MSR exit bitmap is unavailable Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 15/18] multi-target: restrict whpx-accel-*-cpu to matching target Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 16/18] whpx: i386: also save debug registers Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 17/18] whpx: i386: save/restore pending interruption/events Mohamed Mediouni
2026-10-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 18/18] whpx: docs: update for experimental VM save/restore support Mohamed Mediouni
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