From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emVqZ-0000rS-Kl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:34:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emVqY-0004AR-Nu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:33:59 -0500 From: Suraj Jitindar Singh Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:33:27 +1100 Message-Id: <20180216023328.8407-1-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V4 1/2] ppc/spapr-caps: Disallow setting workaround for spapr-cap-ibs List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, groug@kaod.org, Suraj Jitindar Singh The spapr-cap cap-ibs can only have values broken or fixed as there is no explicit workaround required. Currently setting the value workaround for this cap will hit an assert if the guest makes the hcall h_get_cpu_characteristics. Report an error when attempting to apply the setting with a more helpful error message. Reported-by: Satheesh Rajendran Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh --- V3 -> V4: - Add this patch back from V1 to replace "ppc/spapr-caps: Convert spapr-cap-ibs to be a boolean" as this was deemed to be a better solution --- hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c index e69d308560..99a4b71d19 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c @@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ static void cap_safe_bounds_check_apply(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, uint8_t val, static void cap_safe_indirect_branch_apply(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, uint8_t val, Error **errp) { - if (tcg_enabled() && val) { + if (val == SPAPR_CAP_WORKAROUND) { /* Can only be Broken or Fixed */ + error_setg(errp, "Requested safe indirect branch capability level \"workaround\" not valid, try cap-ibs=fixed"); + } else if (tcg_enabled() && val) { /* TODO - for now only allow broken for TCG */ error_setg(errp, "Requested safe indirect branch capability level not supported by tcg, try a different value for cap-ibs"); } else if (kvm_enabled() && (val > kvmppc_get_cap_safe_indirect_branch())) { @@ -263,7 +265,7 @@ sPAPRCapabilityInfo capability_table[SPAPR_CAP_NUM] = { }, [SPAPR_CAP_IBS] = { .name = "ibs", - .description = "Indirect Branch Serialisation" VALUE_DESC_TRISTATE, + .description = "Indirect Branch Serialisation (broken, fixed)", .index = SPAPR_CAP_IBS, .get = spapr_cap_get_tristate, .set = spapr_cap_set_tristate, -- 2.13.6