Re: [PATCH 01/22] cpu: x86: Add support for adding features to existing CPU models

This is not a good idea in general, but we can (and have to) do it in specific cases when a feature has always been part of a CPU model in hypervisor's definition, but we ignored it and did not include the feature in our definition. Blindly adding the features to the CPU map and not adding them to existing CPU models breaks migration between old and new libvirt in both directions. New libvirt would complain the features got unexpectedly enabled (as they were not mentioned in the incoming domain XML) even though they were also enabled on the source and the old libvirt just didn't know about them. On the other hand, old libvirt would refuse to accept incoming migration of a domain started by new libvirt because the domain XML would contain CPU features unknown to the old libvirt. This is exactly what happened when several vmx-* features were added a few releases back. Migration between libvirt releases before and after the addition is now broken. This patch adds support for added these features to existing CPU models by marking them with added='yes'. The features will not be considered part of the CPU model and will be described explicitly via additional <feature/> elements, but the compatibility check will not complain if they are enabled by the hypervisor even though they were not explicitly mentioned in the CPU definition and incoming migration from old libvirt will succeed. To fix outgoing migration to old libvirt, we also need to drop all those features from domain XML unless they were explicitly requested by the user. This will be handled by a later patch. Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/cpu/cpu_x86.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- src/cpu/cpu_x86.h | 3 ++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + 3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) @@ -3030,11 +3057,13 @@ virCPUx86UpdateLive(virCPUDef *cpu,

if (expected == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_DISABLE && x86DataIsSubset(&enabled, &feature->data)) { VIR_DEBUG("Feature '%s' enabled by the hypervisor", feature->name); - if (cpu->check == VIR_CPU_CHECK_FULL) + if (cpu->check == VIR_CPU_CHECK_FULL && + !g_strv_contains((const char **) model->addedFeatures, feature->name)) { virBufferAsprintf(&bufAdded, "%s,", feature->name); - else if (virCPUDefUpdateFeature(cpu, feature->name, - VIR_CPU_FEATURE_REQUIRE) < 0) + } else if (virCPUDefUpdateFeature(cpu, feature->name, + VIR_CPU_FEATURE_REQUIRE) < 0) { return -1; + } } if (x86DataIsSubset(&disabled, &feature->data) || @@ -3499,6 +3528,40 @@ virCPUx86FeatureFilterDropMSR(const char *name, } +/** + * virCPUx86GetAddedFeatures: + * @modelName: CPU model + * @features: where to store a pointer to the list of added features + * + * Gets a list of features added to a specified CPU model after its original + * version was already released. The @features will be set to NULL if the list + * is empty or it will point to internal structures and thus it must not be + * freed or modified by the caller. The pointer is valid for the whole lifetime + * of the process. + * + * Returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise. + */ +int +virCPUx86GetAddedFeatures(const char *modelName, + const char * const **features) +{ + virCPUx86Map *map; + virCPUx86Model *model; + + if (!(map = virCPUx86GetMap())) + return -1; + + if (!(model = x86ModelFind(map, modelName))) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, + _("unknown CPU model %1$s"), modelName);