Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Don't support query-hotpluggable-cpus on earlier pseries machine types

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:34:34AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 02:25:08PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Power, support for vCPU hotplug is new in qemu 2.7.  However, we
> > currently implement the query_hotpluggable_cpus hook the same for all
> > pseries machine type versions.
> > 
> > However, the old-style CPU initialization doesn't work with the new query
> > code, meaning that attempting to use query-hotpluggable-cpus on a
> > pseries-2.6 or earlier VM will cause qemu to SEGV.
> > 
> > This fixes the problem by simply disabling the hook for earlier machine
> > types.
> 
> I had sent a patch to fix this and a couple of other related issues
> some time back and it indeed was accepted into your ppc-for-2.7 branch.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg01539.html
> 
> Only now I am realizing that somehow that patch didn't make it to mainline.

Oh.. good point.  Sorry, that one somehow slipped through the cracks.

So, the remaining question is, what's the preferred behaviour for
older machine types:

  1) should query-hotpluggable-cpus give an error, the same as it does
     on machine types which have never supported it (this is what my
     patch does)

or

  2) Should query-hotpluggable-cpus succeed, but return an empty list?
     (this is what Bharata's patch does)

Igor and / or Peter, do you have an opinion on which behaviour is preferable?

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