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xics/spapr: Detect old KVM XICS on POWER9 hosts
authorGreg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:45:05 +0000 (18:45 +0200)
committerDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 23:43:58 +0000 (09:43 +1000)
commit7abc0c6d35306a41a48eda7ab2b7b2d51f32f86b
tree439604b99e2dbb8b21870775b35a79af91fd7fa3
parentd9293c4843b2503c905d35899077fc415824783e
xics/spapr: Detect old KVM XICS on POWER9 hosts

Older KVMs on POWER9 don't support destroying/recreating a KVM XICS
device, which is required by 'dual' interrupt controller mode. This
causes QEMU to emit a warning when the guest is rebooted and to fall
back on XICS emulation:

qemu-system-ppc64: warning: kernel_irqchip allowed but unavailable:
 Error on KVM_CREATE_DEVICE for XICS: File exists

If kernel irqchip is required, QEMU will thus exit when the guest is
first rebooted. Failing QEMU this late may be a painful experience
for the user.

Detect that and exit at machine init instead.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <156044430517.125694.6207865998817342638.stgit@bahia.lab.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
docs/specs/ppc-spapr-xive.rst
hw/intc/xics_kvm.c
hw/ppc/spapr_irq.c
include/hw/ppc/xics_spapr.h