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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/13] spapr/xive: fix migration of the XiveT


From: Cédric Le Goater
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/13] spapr/xive: fix migration of the XiveTCTX under TCG
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:45:33 +0100
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On 2/26/19 2:02 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 02:13:16PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> When the thread interrupt management state is retrieved from the KVM
>> VCPU, word2 is saved under the QEMU XIVE thread context to print out
>> the OS CAM line under the QEMU monitor.
>>
>> This breaks the migration of a TCG guest (and with KVM when
>> kernel_irqchip=off) because the matching algorithm of the presenter
>> relies on the OS CAM value. Fix with an extra reset of the thread
>> contexts to restore the expected value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> 
> As noted elsewhere, I'm not sure this is the right approach to fixing
> this.  In any case this can be folded into the previous patch.

I have proposed an alternative in a response to :

 [PATCH v2 04/13] spapr/xive: add state synchronization with KVM 

C.


> 
>> ---
>>  hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c
>> index 12ecca6264f3..3176098b9f7c 100644
>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c
>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c
>> @@ -356,7 +356,31 @@ static void 
>> spapr_irq_cpu_intc_create_xive(sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>>  
>>  static int spapr_irq_post_load_xive(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, int 
>> version_id)
>>  {
>> -    return spapr_xive_post_load(spapr->xive, version_id);
>> +    CPUState *cs;
>> +    int ret;
>> +
>> +    ret = spapr_xive_post_load(spapr->xive, version_id);
>> +    if (ret) {
>> +        return ret;
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * When the states are collected from the KVM XIVE device, word2
>> +     * of the XiveTCTX is set to print out the OS CAM line under the
>> +     * QEMU monitor.
>> +     *
>> +     * This breaks the migration on a TCG guest (or on KVM with
>> +     * kernel_irqchip=off) because the matching algorithm of the
>> +     * presenter relies on the OS CAM value. Fix with an extra reset
>> +     * of the thread contexts to restore the expected value.
>> +     */
>> +    CPU_FOREACH(cs) {
>> +        PowerPCCPU *cpu = POWERPC_CPU(cs);
>> +
>> +        /* (TCG) Set the OS CAM line of the thread interrupt context. */
>> +        spapr_xive_set_tctx_os_cam(spapr_cpu_state(cpu)->tctx);
>> +    }
>> +    return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>>  static void spapr_irq_reset_xive(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, Error **errp)
> 




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