Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] i386: Add "max" CPU model to TCG and KVM

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 February 2017 at 18:39, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> * Fix build without CONFIG_KVM at lmce_supported()
> * Rebased on top of my x86-next branch:
>   https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu x86-next
>
> Git branch for testing:
>   https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu-hacks work/x86-cpu-max-tcg
>
> libvirt code to use the new feature already exist, and were
> submitted to libvir-list, at:
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg142168.html
>
> ---
>
> This is a replacement for the previous series that enabled the
> "host" CPU model on TCG. Now a new "max" CPU is being added,
> while keeping "host" KVM-specific.
>
> In addition to simply adding "max" as a copy of the existing
> "host" CPU model, additional patches change it to not use any
> host CPUID information when in TCG mode.


I had a look at implementing this for ARM, and ran into problems
because of how we've done '-cpu host'. For us the "host" CPU
type is registered dynamically when kvm_init() is called,
because (a) it only exists if -enable-kvm and (b) it probes
the kernel to find out what's available. So I could easily
add 'max' in the same place; but then where should I add the
type definition of 'max' for the non-KVM case?

Any suggestions?

thanks
-- PMM