When a thread-context object is specified on the cmd line, then
QEMU spawns a thread and sets its affinity to the list of NUMA
nodes specified in .node-affinity attribute. And this works just
fine, until the main QEMU thread itself is not restricted.
Because of v5.3.0-rc1~18 we restrict the main emulator thread
even before QEMU is executed and thus then it tries to set
affinity of a thread-context thread, it inevitably fails with:
Setting CPU affinity failed: Invalid argument
Now, we could lift the pinning temporarily, let QEMU spawn all
thread-context threads, and enforce pinning again, but that would
require some form of communication with QEMU (maybe -preconfig?).
But that would still be wrong, because it would circumvent
<emulatorpin/>.
Technically speaking, thread-context is an internal
implementation detail of QEMU, and if it weren't for it, the main
emulator thread would be doing the allocation. Therefore, we
should honor the pinning and prune the list of node so that
inaccessible ones are dropped.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2154750
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
These are allegedly necessary to keep the output consistent,
but now that we're using a privileged config for the driver we
get the desired behavior out of the box, and as a bonus the
paths match what you would actually see on a regular host.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
QEMU deprecated the '-no-acpi' option, thus we should switch to the
modern way to use '-machine'.
Certain ARM machine types don't support ACPI. Given our historically
broken design of using '<acpi/>' without attribute to enable ACPI and
qemu's default of enabling it without '-no-acpi' such configurations
would not work.
Now when qemu reports whether given machine type supports ACPI we can do
a better decision and un-break those configs. Unfortunately not
retroactively.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/297
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When generating memory for memory devices memory-backend-* might
be used. This means, we may need to generate thread-context
objects too.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
So far, we are testing memory-hotplug-dimm-addr against a set of
explicitly listed capabilities. While this works, lets switch it
to DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST() so that the latest capabilities are
used. This in turn means, we have to update the <emulator/>
because the latest capabilities don't contain caps for
qemu-system-i386.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
