On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:01:32PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20.03.15 10:39, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > From: Bharata B Rao <bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Since KVM isn't equipped to handle closure of vcpu fd from userspace(QEMU)
> > correctly, certain work arounds have to be employed to allow reuse of
> > vcpu array slot in KVM during cpu hot plug/unplug from guest. One such
> > proposed workaround is to park the vcpu fd in userspace during cpu unplug
> > and reuse it later during next hotplug.
> > 
> > More details can be found here:
> > KVM: https://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg102839.html
> > QEMU: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-12/msg00859.html
> > 
> > In order to support this workaround with PowerPC KVM, don't create or
> > initialize ICP if the vCPU is found to be already associated with an ICP.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> 
> This probably makes some sense, but please make sure that user space has
> some way to figure out whether hotplug works at all.

Bharata is working on the qemu side of all this, so I assume he has
that covered.

> Also Paul, for patches that you pick up from others, I'd prefer if they
> send the patches to the ML themselves first and you pick them up from
> there then. That way we give everyone the same treatment.

Fair enough.  In fact Bharata did post the patch but he sent it to
linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org not the KVM lists.

Paul.
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