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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] ppc: exit if compat mode is unknown
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Greg Kurz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] ppc: exit if compat mode is unknown |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:34:32 +0200 |
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:10:21 +0200
Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Now that properties are set with -global, if we pass a bogus value for
> compat mode, a warning is printed and the property is simply ignored.
> For example, if the host is POWER8 and we pass compat=POWER7 instead of
> compat=power7 the guest will see a POWER8 cpu.
>
> While here, this patch also changes the error message to be more explicit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> ---
Of course this causes qom-set to exit as well... not sure this is what we want.
> target-ppc/translate_init.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/target-ppc/translate_init.c b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> index 8f257fb74aa7..55688db9c9db 100644
> --- a/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> +++ b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> @@ -8475,7 +8475,11 @@ static void powerpc_set_compat(Object *obj, Visitor
> *v, const char *name,
> } else if (strcmp(value, "power8") == 0) {
> *max_compat = CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_07;
> } else {
> - error_setg(errp, "Invalid compatibility mode \"%s\"", value);
> + /* This is called from -global, which does not exit on error. Since
> we
> + * don't want to start with a wrong compat mode, we exit now.
> + */
> + error_report("PPC does not support compatibility mode \"%s\"",
> value);
> + exit(1);
> }
>
> g_free(value);
>
>