PowerPC : Add support for launching VM in 'compat' mode.

PowerISA allows processors to run VMs in binary compatibility ("compat")
mode supporting an older version of ISA. QEMU has recently added support to
explicitly denote a VM running in compatibility mode through commit 6d9412ea
& 8dfa3a5e85. Now, a "compat" mode VM can be run by invoking this qemu
commandline on a POWER8 host:  -cpu host,compat=power7.

This patch allows libvirt to exploit cpu mode 'host-model' to describe this
new mode for PowerKVM guests. For example, when a user wants to request a
power7 vm to run in compatibility mode on a Power8 host, this can be
described in XML as follows :

  <cpu mode='host-model'>
    <model>power7</model>
  </cpu>

Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pradipta Kr. Banerjee <bpradip@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Prerna Saxena 2014-11-04 22:52:44 +05:30 committed by Michal Privoznik
parent da636d83dc
commit addce06c92
3 changed files with 12 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ virCPUDefFormatBuf(virBufferPtr buf,
return 0;
formatModel = (def->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_CUSTOM ||
def->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_MODEL ||
(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU));
formatFallback = (def->type == VIR_CPU_TYPE_GUEST &&
(def->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_MODEL ||

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@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ ppcUpdate(virCPUDefPtr guest,
static virCPUDefPtr
ppcBaseline(virCPUDefPtr *cpus,
unsigned int ncpus,
const char **models,
unsigned int nmodels,
const char **models ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
unsigned int nmodels ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
unsigned int flags)
{
struct ppc_map *map = NULL;
@ -583,13 +583,6 @@ ppcBaseline(virCPUDefPtr *cpus,
goto error;
}
if (!cpuModelIsAllowed(model->name, models, nmodels)) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
_("CPU model %s is not supported by hypervisor"),
model->name);
goto error;
}
for (i = 0; i < ncpus; i++) {
const struct ppc_vendor *vnd;

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@ -6226,7 +6226,9 @@ qemuBuildCpuModelArgStr(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
*hasHwVirt = hasSVM > 0 ? true : false;
}
if (cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_PASSTHROUGH) {
if ((cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_PASSTHROUGH) ||
((cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_MODEL) &&
ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch))) {
const char *mode = virCPUModeTypeToString(cpu->mode);
if (!virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_CPU_HOST)) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
@ -6241,6 +6243,12 @@ qemuBuildCpuModelArgStr(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
goto cleanup;
}
virBufferAddLit(buf, "host");
if (ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch) &&
cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_HOST_MODEL) {
virBufferAsprintf(buf, ",compat=%s", def->cpu->model);
}
} else {
if (VIR_ALLOC(guest) < 0)
goto cleanup;