To encourage contributors to make changes to the main website, add a
footer link to every page which links to the corresponding source file
in git. With gitlab, they are able to edit content directly in the web
browser and then submit a merge request. This gives a way to contribute
content that is arguably easier than our wiki which requires manual
account creation, while this will also benefit from maintainer review.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The signatures of these two CPU model differ only in stepping as both
report family 6 and model 85. Skylake-Server uses stepping 4 or less and
Cascadelake-Server uses stepping 5..7.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1761678
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Skylake-Server with family 6, model 85, stepping 4, which is currently
mis-detected as Cascadelake-Server CPU model.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
CPU models defined in the cpu_map can use signature/@stepping attribute
to match a limited set of stepping numbers. The value is a bitmap for
bits 0..15 each corresponding to a single stepping value. For example,
stepping='4-6,9' will match 4, 5, 6, and 9. Omitting the attribute is
equivalent to stepping='0-15'.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Thanks to glib allocation functions which abort on OOM the function
cannot ever return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The CPU models in our cpu_map define their signatures using separate
family and model numbers. Let's store the signatures in the same way in
our runtime representation of the cpu_map.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
It can be used for separating family, model, and stepping numbers from a
single 32b integer as reported by CPUID.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The function will be used for freeing virCPUx86Signatures structure
introduced later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place where all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesFormat for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place were all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesMatch for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place were all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesCopy for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The hint was introduced a long time ago when broken TSX implementation
was found in Haswell and Broadwell CPUs. Since then many more CPUs with
TSX were introduced and and disabled due to TAA vulnerability.
Thus the hint is not very useful and I think removing it is a better
choice then updating it to cover all current noTSX models.
This partially reverts:
commit 7f127ded65
cpu: Rework cpuCompare* APIs
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Pass the packed option on the QEMU command line of the capability for
packed virtqueues is detected and the parameter is set explicitly.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Expose the virtio parameter for packed virtqueues as an optional libvirt
XML attribute to virtio-backed devices, e.g.:
<interface type='user'>
<mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver packed='on'/>
</interface>
If the attribute is omitted, the default value for this attribute is 'off' and
regular split virtqueues are used.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add the capability for QEMU's packed virtqueues for virtio that supposedly have
better cache utilization and performance compared to the default split queues.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Update s390x capabilities for QEMU 4.2 with the actual GA version for
QEMU and on the latest z15 machine.
This picks up the new blockdev capability, so we need to refresh a bunch
of test cases as well.
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Unlike `waitpid`, `virProcessWait` only returns -1 (error) or 0
(success), so comparing that to `pid` will always be false and the
parent will report failure with:
error : main:851 : Failed to fork as daemon: No such file or directory
even though the grandchild process is succesfully running. Note that the
errno message is misleading: it was last set when trying to find a
restart state file.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Fonseca <r4f4rfs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marcin Krol <hawk@tld-linux.org>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Replace vm->def->disks[i] with dom_disk variable which is
initialized to the same disk.
Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yili@winhong.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This organizes the existing contents into sections, tweaks some parts
a bit and adds links to the pages where the contents that were ripped
out of hacking.rst now live, either inline or in the catch-all "further
reading" section depending on what makes more sense.
The result is that it's now possible to consume this page, which is
the entry point for new contributors, in just a few minutes, and then
drill down further based on factors such as the familiarity with the
open source development model or mail-based workflows.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
These guidelines should already be familiar to people who have
contributed to other open source projects, so it doesn't make much
sense for them to be so prominent. Move them to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a relatively lengthy part with lots of details, which many
people who are familiar with a mail-based development workflow will
already know and which will become obsolete once we move to GitLab.
Move the contents to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
