Migrating between different CPU versions is a bit complicated for ppc.
A long time ago, we ensured identical CPU versions at either end by
checking the PVR had the same value. However, this breaks under KVM
HV, because we always have to use the host's PVR - it's not
virtualized. That would mean we couldn't migrate between hosts with
different PVRs, even if the CPUs are close enough to compatible in
practice (sometimes identical cores with different surrounding logic
have different PVRs, so this happens in practice quite often).
So, we removed the PVR check, but instead checked that several flags
indicating supported instructions matched. This turns out to be a bad
idea, because those instruction masks are not architected information, but
essentially a TCG implementation detail. So changes to qemu internal CPU
modelling can break migration - this happened between qemu-2.6 and
qemu-2.7. That was addressed by 146c11f1 "target-ppc: Allow eventual
removal of old migration mistakes".
Now, verification of CPU compatibility across a migration basically doesn't
happen. We simply ignore the PVR of the incoming migration, and hope the
cpu on the destination is close enough to work.
Now that we've cleaned up handling of processor compatibility modes
for pseries machine type, we can do better. For new machine types
(pseries-2.10+) We allow migration if:
* The source and destination PVRs are for the same type of CPU, as
determined by CPU class's pvr_match function
OR * When the source was in a compatibility mode, and the destination CPU
supports the same compatibility mode
For older machine types we retain the existing behaviour - current CAS
code will usually set a compat mode which would break backwards
migration if we made them use the new behaviour. [Fixed from an
earlier version by Greg Kurz].
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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