From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] target-i386: fix losing XCR0 processor state component bits
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:05:56 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928170556.GO3877@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475051774-5590-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:36:14PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
>
> Commit 96193c22a "target-i386: Move xsave component mask to features array"
> leverages features array to handle XCR0 processor state component bits,
> however, it introduces a regression:
>
> warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.0DH:EAX [bit 0]
> warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.0DH:EAX [bit 1]
> warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.0DH:EAX [bit 2]
>
> My desktop doesn't have enough advance features, so just X87,SSE,AVX
> warnings are splat when I boot a guest.
>
> The get migratable flags logic in x86_cpu_filter_features() path will
> filter out the feature flags which are unsupported and unmigratable.
> However, the bits of XCR0 processor state component featureword don't
> have feat_names, and some features like SSE/AVX etc have feat_names in
> CPUID.01H:EDX, CPUID.01H:ECX, so they are treated as unsupported.
>
> This patch fix it by don't filter out XCR0 processor state components
> bits though they don't have feat_names just as before commit 96193c22ab3.
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> * move the check to x86_cpu_get_migratable_flags()
>
> target-i386/cpu.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/target-i386/cpu.c b/target-i386/cpu.c
> index 333309b..cc929ca 100644
> --- a/target-i386/cpu.c
> +++ b/target-i386/cpu.c
> @@ -602,7 +602,10 @@ static uint32_t x86_cpu_get_migratable_flags(FeatureWord w)
> uint32_t f = 1U << i;
> /* If the feature name is unknown, it is not supported by QEMU yet */
> if (!wi->feat_names[i]) {
> - continue;
> + if (w != FEAT_XSAVE_COMP_LO &&
> + w != FEAT_XSAVE_COMP_HI) {
> + continue;
> + }
We still need to report unknown xstate components as unmigratable
(otherwise -cpu host will enable them automatically). See the fix
I submitted:
[PATCH] target-i386: Report known CPUID[EAX=0xD,ECX=0]:EAX bits as migratable
--
Eduardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 8:36 [PATCH v2] target-i386: fix losing XCR0 processor state component bits Wanpeng Li
2016-09-28 17:05 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2016-09-29 1:03 ` Wanpeng Li
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