On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:19:37AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM has a feature bitmap of CPUID bits that it knows works for guests.
QEMU removes bits that are not part of that bitmap automatically on VM
start.
However, some times we just don't list features in that list because
they don't make sense for normal scenarios, but may be useful in specific,
targeted workloads.
For that purpose, add a new =force option to all CPUID feature flags in
the CPU property. With that we can override the accel filtering and give
users full control over the CPUID feature bits exposed into guests.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
---
target/i386/cpu.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
target/i386/cpu.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 7aa7622..5a22f9a 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ void x86_cpu_list(FILE *f, fprintf_function cpu_fprintf)
g_slist_foreach(list, x86_cpu_list_entry, &s);
g_slist_free(list);
- (*cpu_fprintf)(f, "\nRecognized CPUID flags:\n");
+ (*cpu_fprintf)(f, "\nRecognized CPUID flags (=on|=off|=force):\n");
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(feature_word_info); i++) {
FeatureWordInfo *fw = &feature_word_info[i];
@@ -3460,6 +3460,7 @@ static int x86_cpu_filter_features(X86CPU *cpu)
x86_cpu_get_supported_feature_word(w, false);
uint32_t requested_features = env->features[w];
env->features[w] &= host_feat;
+ env->features[w] |= cpu->forced_features[w];
cpu->filtered_features[w] = requested_features & ~env->features[w];
if (cpu->filtered_features[w]) {
rv = 1;
@@ -3693,6 +3694,7 @@ static void x86_cpu_unrealizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error
**errp)
typedef struct BitProperty {
uint32_t *ptr;
+ uint32_t *force_ptr;
uint32_t mask;
} BitProperty;
Please take a look at:
Subject: [PATCH for-2.9 v2 1/2] i386: Replace uint32_t* with FeatureWord on
feature getter/setter
I plan to include that series in 2.9, and it would make the
force_ptr field unnecessary.
@@ -3701,7 +3703,15 @@ static void x86_cpu_get_bit_prop(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
{
BitProperty *fp = opaque;
bool value = (*fp->ptr & fp->mask) == fp->mask;
- visit_type_bool(v, name, &value, errp);
+ bool forced = (*fp->force_ptr & fp->mask) == fp->mask;
+ char str[] = "force";
+ char *strval = str;
+
+ if (!forced) {
+ strcpy(str, value ? "on" : "off");
+ }
+
+ visit_type_str(v, name, &strval, errp);
You can define an enum type in qapi-schema.json, and use
visit_type_<YourEnumType>(). You can grep for
visit_type_OnOffAuto to find examples.
(But I suggest naming the enum something like
"X86CPUFeatureSetting" instead of "OnOffForce", because we will
probably add other enum values in the future).
However: we need to find a way to do this and not break
compatibility with "feat=yes|true|no|false", that's supported by
StringInputVisitor (which is used by object_property_parse()).
Maybe fallback to visit_type_bool() in case
visit_type_<YourEnumType>() fails?