[Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/25] target/i386: kvm: Add nested migration blocker only when kernel lacks required capabilities

Paolo Bonzini posted 25 patches 6 years, 3 months ago
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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/25] target/i386: kvm: Add nested migration blocker only when kernel lacks required capabilities
Posted by Paolo Bonzini 6 years, 3 months ago
From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>

Previous commits have added support for migration of nested virtualization
workloads. This was done by utilising two new KVM capabilities:
KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE and KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD. Both which are
required in order to correctly migrate such workloads.

Therefore, change code to add a migration blocker for vCPUs exposed with
Intel VMX or AMD SVM in case one of these kernel capabilities is
missing.

Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20190619162140.133674-11-liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 target/i386/kvm.c     | 9 +++++++--
 target/i386/machine.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
index ab812b5..f08eab4 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
@@ -1640,9 +1640,14 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
                                   !!(c->ecx & CPUID_EXT_SMX);
     }
 
-    if (cpu_has_nested_virt(env) && !nested_virt_mig_blocker) {
+    if (cpu_has_vmx(env) && !nested_virt_mig_blocker &&
+        ((kvm_max_nested_state_length() <= 0) || !has_exception_payload)) {
         error_setg(&nested_virt_mig_blocker,
-                   "Nested virtualization does not support live migration yet");
+                   "Kernel do not provide required capabilities for "
+                   "nested virtualization migration. "
+                   "(CAP_NESTED_STATE=%d, CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD=%d)",
+                   kvm_max_nested_state_length() > 0,
+                   has_exception_payload);
         r = migrate_add_blocker(nested_virt_mig_blocker, &local_err);
         if (local_err) {
             error_report_err(local_err);
diff --git a/target/i386/machine.c b/target/i386/machine.c
index f66f342..e077989 100644
--- a/target/i386/machine.c
+++ b/target/i386/machine.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static int cpu_pre_save(void *opaque)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KVM
     /* Verify we have nested virtualization state from kernel if required */
-    if (cpu_has_nested_virt(env) && !env->nested_state) {
+    if (kvm_enabled() && cpu_has_vmx(env) && !env->nested_state) {
         error_report("Guest enabled nested virtualization but kernel "
                 "does not support saving of nested state");
         return -EINVAL;
-- 
1.8.3.1