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>
This includes various small updates and a better description of the
chosen interrupt mode resulting from the combination of the 'ic-mode'
machine option, the 'kernel_irqchip' option, guest support and KVM
support.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20190612160425.27670-1-clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
This documents the overall XIVE architecture and the XIVE support for
sPAPR guest machines (pseries).
It also provides documentation on the 'info pic' command.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20190521082411.24719-1-clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
