Xen devel - Sep 2010 - [PATCH 0/4 -v3a] xl: add cpuid config file option

Hi,

This patch series introduces a cpuid parameter in xl.
This is a small update to address IanJ''s comment on the 
xlu_cfg_get_type() function. I now removed the function from the 
patchset and replaced it with a changed version of xl_cfg_get_list() 
call. Other than that there were no changes compared to v3.
This is against the staging tree (c/s 22187), so it omits the already 
committed 1/5.

Please review and commit!

Regards,
Andre.

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xl is currently ignoring the cpuid= variable in the config file. As I
don''t like the current interface xm exposes (basically because it is
complicated, unintuitive and very error prone), I implemented a new
scheme for specifying CPUID flags policy, combining QEMU''s and
Xen''s
approach:
cpuid = "<base>,<feature_name>=[01xks]*,...
The patch includes a (preliminary) list of feature names along with
their bit positions. The value for each feature bit copies the current
meaning is Xen:
0: clear, 1: set, x: don''t care/use default, k: keep from host, s: use
host but preserve across migration
The value can also be a number (either in hex or decimal), so things
like "stepping=3" can be easily specified.
To show you the advantage, I quote the example config file:
    > #cpuid=[ ''1:ecx=xxxxxxxxxxx00xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
    > #           eax=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'' ]
    > # - Unset the SSE4 features (CPUID.1[ECX][20-19])
    > # - Default behaviour for all other bits in ECX And EAX registers.
new version: cpuid = "host,sse4.1=0,sse4.2=0"
    > #  Expose to the guest multi-core cpu instead of multiple processors
    > # Example for intel, expose a 8-core processor :
    > #cpuid=[''1:edx=xxx1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
    > #          ebx=xxxxxxxx00010000xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'',
    > #     ''4,0:eax=001111xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'']
    > #  - CPUID.1[EDX][HT] : Enable HT
    > #  - CPUID.1[EBX] : Number of vcpus * 2
    > #  - CPUID.4,0[EAX] : Number of vcpus * 2 - 1
    > #vcpus=8
new version: cpuid = "host,htt=1,proccount=16,maxcores=15"
    > # Example for amd, expose a 5-core processor :
    > # cpuid = [''1:ebx=xxxxxxxx00001010xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
    > #             edx=xxx1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'',
    > # ''0x80000001:ecx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1x'',
    > # ''0x80000008:ecx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx001001'']
    > #  - CPUID.1[EBX] : Threads per Core * Cores per Socket (2 * #vcpus)
    > #  - CPUID.1[EDX][HT] : Enable HT
    > #  - CPUID.0x80000001[CmpLegacy] : Use legacy method
    > #  - CPUID.0x80000008[ECX] : #vcpus * 2 - 1
new version: cpuid="host,htt=1,cmplegacy=1,proccount=10,nc=9"

-- 
Andre Przywara
AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany
Tel: +49 351 448-3567-12


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