Power9 supports 4 HW threads/core but it's possible to emulate
doorbells to implement virtual SMT. KVM has the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE
which returns a bitmap with all SMT modes supported by the host.
Today, QEMU forces the SMT mode based on PVR compat table, this is
silently done in spapr_fixup_cpu_dt. Then, if user passes thread=8 the
guest will end up with 4 threads/core without any feedback to the user.
It is confusing and will crash QEMU if a cpu is hotplugged in that
guest.
This patch makes use of KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE to check if the host
supports the SMT mode so it allows Power9 guests to have 8 threads/core
if desired.
Reported-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathe...@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <jos...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
hw/ppc/spapr.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
hw/ppc/trace-events | 1 +
target/ppc/kvm.c | 5 +++++
target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index d1acfe8858..ea2503cd2f 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -345,7 +345,19 @@ static int spapr_fixup_cpu_dt(void *fdt, sPAPRMachineState
*spapr)
PowerPCCPU *cpu = POWERPC_CPU(cs);
DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_GET_CLASS(cs);
int index = spapr_vcpu_id(cpu);
- int compat_smt = MIN(smp_threads, ppc_compat_max_threads(cpu));
+
+ /* set smt to maximum for this current pvr if the number
+ * passed is higher than defined by PVR compat mode AND
+ * if KVM cannot emulate it.*/
+ int compat_smt = smp_threads;
+ if ((kvmppc_cap_smt_possible() & smp_threads) != smp_threads &&
+ smp_threads > ppc_compat_max_threads(cpu)) {
+ compat_smt = ppc_compat_max_threads(cpu);
+
+ trace_spapr_fixup_cpu_smt(index, smp_threads,
+ kvmppc_cap_smt_possible(),
+ ppc_compat_max_threads(cpu));
+ }
if ((index % smt) != 0) {
continue;
diff --git a/hw/ppc/trace-events b/hw/ppc/trace-events
index b7c3e64b5e..a8e29d7ab1 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/trace-events
+++ b/hw/ppc/trace-events
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ spapr_irq_alloc(int irq) "irq %d"
spapr_irq_alloc_block(int first, int num, bool lsi, int align) "first irq %d,
%d irqs, lsi=%d, alignnum %d"
spapr_irq_free(int src, int irq, int num) "Source#%d, first irq %d, %d irqs"
spapr_irq_free_warn(int src, int irq) "Source#%d, irq %d is already free"
+spapr_fixup_cpu_smt(int idx, int smpt, int kvmt, int pvrt) "CPU(%d): expected
smt %d, kvm support %d, max smt pvr %d"
# hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c
spapr_cas_pvr_try(uint32_t pvr) "0x%x"
diff --git a/target/ppc/kvm.c b/target/ppc/kvm.c
index 518dd06e98..aac5667bf4 100644
--- a/target/ppc/kvm.c
+++ b/target/ppc/kvm.c
@@ -2456,6 +2456,11 @@ bool kvmppc_has_cap_mmu_hash_v3(void)
return cap_mmu_hash_v3;
}
+int kvmppc_cap_smt_possible(void)
+{
+ return cap_ppc_smt_possible;
+}
+
PowerPCCPUClass *kvm_ppc_get_host_cpu_class(void)
{
uint32_t host_pvr = mfpvr();
diff --git a/target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h b/target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h
index ecb55493cc..6ac33d2b4a 100644
--- a/target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h
+++ b/target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ bool kvmppc_has_cap_fixup_hcalls(void);
bool kvmppc_has_cap_htm(void);
bool kvmppc_has_cap_mmu_radix(void);
bool kvmppc_has_cap_mmu_hash_v3(void);
+int kvmppc_cap_smt_possible(void);
int kvmppc_enable_hwrng(void);
int kvmppc_put_books_sregs(PowerPCCPU *cpu);
PowerPCCPUClass *kvm_ppc_get_host_cpu_class(void);
@@ -290,6 +291,11 @@ static inline bool kvmppc_has_cap_mmu_hash_v3(void)
return false;
}
+static inline int kvmppc_cap_smt_possible(void)
+{
+ return -1;
+}
+
static inline int kvmppc_enable_hwrng(void)
{
return -1;
--
2.14.1
