kernel_optimize_test/include/uapi
Huacai Chen 15e9e35cd1 KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type
MIPS defines two kvm types:

 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE          0
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ          1

In Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst it is said that "You probably want to
use 0 as machine type", which implies that type 0 be the "automatic" or
"default" type. And, in user-space libvirt use the null-machine (with
type 0) to detect the kvm capability, which returns "KVM not supported"
on a VZ platform.

I try to fix it in QEMU but it is ugly:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg05629.html

And Thomas Huth suggests me to change the definition of kvm type:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg03281.html

So I define like this:

 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_AUTO        0
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ          1
 #define KVM_VM_MIPS_TE          2

Since VZ and TE cannot co-exists, using type 0 on a TE platform will
still return success (so old user-space tools have no problems on new
kernels); the advantage is that using type 0 on a VZ platform will not
return failure. So, the only problem is "new user-space tools use type
2 on old kernels", but if we treat this as a kernel bug, we can backport
this patch to old stable kernels.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Message-Id: <1599734031-28746-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-09-11 13:22:52 -04:00
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asm-generic Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -07:00
drm drm/fourcc: fix Amlogic Video Framebuffer Compression macro 2020-07-27 09:29:51 +02:00
linux KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type 2020-09-11 13:22:52 -04:00
misc habanalabs: Add dropped cs statistics info struct 2020-07-24 20:31:36 +03:00
mtd MTD: mtd-abi.h: drop a duplicated word 2020-08-02 23:00:10 +02:00
rdma RDMA/efa: User/kernel compatibility handshake mechanism 2020-07-29 09:23:40 -03:00
scsi scsi: qla2xxx: Change in PUREX to handle FPIN ELS requests 2020-07-01 22:24:16 -04:00
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xen xen/gntdev: gntdev.h: drop a duplicated word 2020-08-03 07:46:42 +02:00
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