(CCing libvirt folks)
BTW:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:22:22PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
[...]
> /* Special cases: */
> if (!strcmp(name, "xlevel")) {
> numvalue = strtoul(val, &err, 0);
> if (!*val || *err) {
> error_setg(errp, "bad numerical value %s", val);
> return;
> }
> if (numvalue < 0x80000000) {
> error_report("xlevel value shall always be >=
0x80000000"
> ", fixup will be removed in future
versions");
> numvalue += 0x80000000;
> snprintf(num, sizeof(num), "%" PRIu32, numvalue);
> val = num;
[...]
> } else if (!strcmp(name, "hv-spinlocks")) {
> const int min = 0xFFF;
>
> numvalue = strtoul(val, &err, 0);
> if (!*val || *err) {
> error_setg(errp, "bad numerical value %s", val);
> return;
> }
> if (numvalue < min) {
> error_report("hv-spinlocks value shall always be >=
0x%x"
> ", fixup will be removed in future
versions",
> min);
> numvalue = min;
> }
Those "fixup will be removed in future versions" warnings are
present since QEMU 1.7. Assuming that libvirt never allowed those
invalid values to be used in the configuration (did it?), I
believe we can safely remove the hv-spinlocks and xlevel fixups
in QEMU 2.7.
The hv-spinlocks setter already rejects invalid values. We just
need to make x86_cpu_realizefn() reject invalid xlevel values.
--
Eduardo