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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: paulus@ozlabs.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 6/6] target/ppc/spapr: Add H-Call H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:30:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <650522f0-9667-f6c5-1c45-b54619440b69@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3680b2ae-def7-9b00-81d8-eb66ec0bea4e@ozlabs.ru>

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On 01/18/2018 02:11 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

>>>> I think you just assert() for this.  The only way these could get a
>>>> different value is if there's a bug elsewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not return H_HARDWARE or other error?
>>
>> Because what's the guest supposed to do with it. 
> 
> "oops"
> 
>> This is an internal
>> qemu problem, so it should be dealt with via an internal qemu
>> mechanism.
> 
> Do we have assert() enabled in production? If not, then assert == noop,
> error_report is just a noise.

See commit 262a69f4.  Yes, assert() is enabled in production, for
security reasons (aka it's easier to do that than to audit that
migration is still safe even with no-op asserts).

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-15  6:32 [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 0/6] target/ppc: Rework spapr_caps Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 1/6] target/ppc/kvm: Add cap_ppc_safe_[cache/bounds_check/indirect_branch] Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-15  6:58   ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V4 " Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:06     ` David Gibson
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 2/6] target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add support for tristate spapr_capabilities Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:07   ` David Gibson
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 3/6] target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_cache Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:10   ` David Gibson
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 4/6] target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_bounds_check Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:11   ` David Gibson
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 5/6] target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_indirect_branch Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:11   ` David Gibson
2018-01-15  6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 6/6] target/ppc/spapr: Add H-Call H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS Suraj Jitindar Singh
2018-01-18  5:20   ` David Gibson
2018-01-18  5:44     ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-18  5:53       ` David Gibson
2018-01-18  8:11         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-18 20:30           ` Eric Blake [this message]
2018-01-18 23:35             ` David Gibson
2018-01-18 23:33           ` David Gibson
2018-01-16 13:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [QEMU-PPC] [PATCH V3 0/6] target/ppc: Rework spapr_caps Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-16 13:54   ` David Gibson
2018-01-16 14:46     ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-16 22:34       ` David Gibson
2018-01-16 23:26         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-16 23:30           ` David Gibson
2018-01-16 23:46             ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-17  1:15               ` David Gibson
2018-01-17  8:54           ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-18  4:27             ` David Gibson
2018-01-18 15:55               ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-19  2:22                 ` David Gibson
2018-01-19  3:59                   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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