Re: [PATCH] runqemu: Use correct kvm CPU options for qemux86* with kvm

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 14:05 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 21:59 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > The existing -cpu host option caused kernel panics when people attempted to use
> > the kvm option. After research and discussion, the best options appear to
> > be the kvm32/kvm64 cpu types so lets use these instead. These resolve
> > the kernel issues for me.
> > 
> > [YOCTO #3908]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Makes a lot of sense to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
> 
> > ---
> > diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
> > index efab1a2..12c58d9 100755
> > --- a/scripts/runqemu
> > +++ b/scripts/runqemu
> > @@ -265,7 +265,11 @@ if [ "x$KVM_ENABLED" = "xyes" ]; then
> >          exit 1;
> >      fi
> >      if [ -w /dev/kvm -a -r /dev/kvm ]; then
> > -        SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu host"
> > +        if [ "x$MACHINE" = "xqemux86" ]; then
> > +            SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu kvm32"
> > +        elif [ "x$MACHINE" = "xqemux86-64" ]; then
> > +            SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu kvm64"
> > +        fi
> 
> The above is fine, but it does raise the question of dealing with non
> oe-core BSPs with runqemu. For instance, there would be value in testing
> genericx86 and genericx86_64 in the same way. We can deal with that
> separately though I think as this solves an immediate problem and
> doesn't make it any worse for the case I mention.

There is an explicit check for qemux86* just above this block so whilst
I like the idea, its something for another patch and likely 1.6
material. Could be worth an enhancement bug though.

Cheers,

Richard