On 28.05.19 14:53, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 13:00:30 +0200
> Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Paolo, Radim,
>>
>> would you consider this patch (or the full series) as 5.2 material or 5.3
>> material?
>
> FWIW, I'd consider this patch 5.2 material, as we're currently relaying
> wrong values to userspace.
Agreed. I will add cc stable and queue for master. What is our opinion about
kselftest?
Are we merging testtools changes also only during the merge window?
>
>>
>>
>> On 23.05.19 18:43, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID is currently always reporting KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID on all
>>> architectures. However, on s390x, the amount of usable CPUs is determined
>>> during runtime - it is depending on the features of the machine the code
>>> is running on. Since we are using the vcpu_id as an index into the SCA
>>> structures that are defined by the hardware (see e.g. the sca_add_vcpu()
>>> function), it is not only the amount of CPUs that is limited by the hard-
>>> ware, but also the range of IDs that we can use.
>>> Thus KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID must be determined during runtime on s390x, too.
>>> So the handling of KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID has to be moved from the common
>>> code into the architecture specific code, and on s390x we have to return
>>> the same value here as for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS.
>>> This problem has been discovered with the kvm_create_max_vcpus selftest.
>>> With this change applied, the selftest now passes on s390x, too.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 3 +++
>>> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 3 +++
>>> arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 1 +
>>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
>>> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 3 +++
>>> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 --
>>> 6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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