[PATCH] KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type

* [PATCH] KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type
@ 2020-09-10 10:33 Huacai Chen
  2020-09-10 10:57 ` Thomas Huth
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From: Huacai Chen @ 2020-09-10 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, Thomas Bogendoerfer, Aleksandar Markovic,
	Philippe Mathieu-Daudé,
	Thomas Huth
  Cc: kvm, linux-mips, Fuxin Zhang, Huacai Chen, Jiaxun Yang,
	Huacai Chen, stable

MIPS defines two kvm types:

 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE          0
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ          1

In Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst it is said that "You probably want to
use 0 as machine type", which implies that type 0 be the "automatic" or
"default" type. And, in user-space libvirt use the null-machine (with
type 0) to detect the kvm capability, which returns "KVM not supported"
on a VZ platform.

I try to fix it in QEMU but it is ugly:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg05629.html

And Thomas Huth suggests me to change the definition of kvm type:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg03281.html

So I define like this:

 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO        0
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ          1
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE          2

Since VZ and TE cannot co-exists, using type 0 on a TE platform will
still return success (so old user-space tools have no problems on new
kernels); the advantage is that using type 0 on a VZ platform will not
return failure. So, the only problem is "new user-space tools use type
2 on old kernels", but if we treat this as a kernel bug, we can backport
this patch to old stable kernels.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
---
 arch/mips/kvm/mips.c     | 2 ++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
index d7ba3f9..9efeb67 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ extern void kvm_init_loongson_ipi(struct kvm *kvm);
 int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 {
 	switch (type) {
+	case KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO:
+		break;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_MIPS_VZ
 	case KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ:
 #else
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 29ba8e8..cfc1ae2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -790,9 +790,10 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
 #define KVM_VM_PPC_HV 1
 #define KVM_VM_PPC_PR 2
 
-/* on MIPS, 0 forces trap & emulate, 1 forces VZ ASE */
-#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE		0
+/* on MIPS, 0 indicates auto, 1 forces VZ ASE, 2 forces trap & emulate */
+#define KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO	0
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ		1
+#define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE		2
 
 #define KVM_S390_SIE_PAGE_OFFSET 1
 
-- 
2.7.0


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