The existing code for "host" and "max" CPU models overrides every
single feature in the CPU object at realize time, even the ones
that were explicitly enabled or disabled by the user using
"feat=on" or "feat=off", while features set using +feat/-feat are
kept.
This means "-cpu host,+invtsc" works as expected, while
"-cpu host,invtsc=on" doesn't.
This was a known bug, already documented in a comment inside
x86_cpu_expand_features(). What makes this bug worse now is that
libvirt 3.0.0 and newer now use "feat=on|off" instead of
+feat/-feat when it detects a QEMU version that supports it (see
libvirt commit d47db7b16dd5422c7e487c8c8ee5b181a2f9cd66).
Change the feature property getter/setter to set a
env->user_features field, to keep track of features that were
explicitly changed using QOM properties. Then make the
max_features code not override user features when handling "-cpu
host" and "-cpu max".
This will also allow us to remove the plus_features/minus_features
hack in the future, but I plan to do that after 2.9.0 is
released.
Backports commit d4a606b38b5d4b3689b86cc1575908e82179ecfb from qemu
Helper function for code that needs to check the host CPU
vendor/family/model/stepping values.
Backports commit 20271d484069f154fb262507e63adc3a37e885d2 from qemu
Paths through the softmmu code during code generation now need to be audited
to check for double locking of tb_lock. In particular, VMEXIT can take tb_lock
through cpu_vmexit -> cpu_x86_update_cr4 -> tlb_flush.
To avoid this, split VMEXIT delivery in two parts, similar to what is done with
exceptions. cpu_vmexit only records the VMEXIT exit code and information, and
cc->do_interrupt can then deliver it when it is safe to take the lock.
Backports commit 10cde894b63146139f981857e4eedf756fa53dcb from qemu
This suppresses the incorrect warning when forcing MTTCG for x86
guests on x86 hosts. A future patch will still warn when
TARGET_SUPPORT_MTTCG hasn't been defined for the guest (which is still
pending for x86).
Backports commit 72c1701f62e8d44eb24a0583a958edc280105455 from qemu
AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ: Vector POPCNT instructions for word and qwords.
variable precision.
Backports commit f77543772dcd38fa438470d9b80bafbd3a3ebbd7 from qemu
We've currently got 18 architectures in QEMU, and thus 18 target-xxx
folders in the root folder of the QEMU source tree. More architectures
(e.g. RISC-V, AVR) are likely to be included soon, too, so the main
folder of the QEMU sources slowly gets quite overcrowded with the
target-xxx folders.
To disburden the main folder a little bit, let's move the target-xxx
folders into a dedicated target/ folder, so that target-xxx/ simply
becomes target/xxx/ instead.
Backports commit fcf5ef2ab52c621a4617ebbef36bf43b4003f4c0 from qemu
