From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: thuth@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aik@ozlabs.ru,
agraf@suse.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] xics_kvm: Don't enable KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS if already enabled
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:59:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150615065930.GK13352@voom.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433478358-993-8-git-send-email-bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:55:57AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> When supporting CPU hot removal by parking the vCPU fd and reusing
> it during hotplug again, there can be cases where we try to reenable
> KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS CAP for the vCPU for which it was already enabled.
> Introduce a boolean member in ICPState to track this and don't
> reenable the CAP if it was already enabled earlier.
>
> Re-enabling this CAP should ideally work, but currently it results in
> kernel trying to create and associate ICP with this vCPU and that
> fails since there is already an ICP associated with it. Hence this
> patch is needed to work around this problem in the kernel.
>
> This change allows CPU hot removal to work for sPAPR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-15 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-05 4:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] sPAPR CPU hotplug pre-requisites Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] spapr: Consider max_cpus during xics initialization Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 5:30 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-06-05 7:07 ` Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 8:01 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-06-15 6:55 ` David Gibson
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] spapr: Support ibm, lrdr-capacity device tree property Bharata B Rao
2015-06-15 6:56 ` David Gibson
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/8] cpus: Add a macro to walk CPUs in reverse Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 14:39 ` Andreas Färber
2015-06-15 6:41 ` David Gibson
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/8] spapr: Reorganize CPU dt generation code Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 6:09 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-06-05 7:06 ` Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 7:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-06-15 6:57 ` David Gibson
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] spapr: Consolidate cpu init code into a routine Bharata B Rao
2015-06-15 6:59 ` David Gibson
2015-06-15 8:15 ` Thomas Huth
2015-06-16 5:40 ` David Gibson
2015-06-16 6:36 ` Thomas Huth
2015-06-17 4:43 ` David Gibson
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] ppc: Update cpu_model in MachineState Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] xics_kvm: Don't enable KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS if already enabled Bharata B Rao
2015-06-15 6:59 ` David Gibson [this message]
2015-06-05 4:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] xics_kvm: Add cpu_destroy method to XICS Bharata B Rao
2015-06-05 8:09 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-06-05 9:15 ` Bharata B Rao
2015-06-15 7:00 ` David Gibson
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