Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> writes:

> On 29.04.20 10:54, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 28.04.20 19:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 28.04.20 18:34, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>> Both s390_features[S390_FEAT_PCC_CMAC_AES_256].name and
>>>> s390_features[S390_FEAT_PCC_CMAC_EAES_256].name is
>>>> "pcc-cmac-eaes-256".  The former is obviously a pasto.
>>>>
>>>> Impact:
>>>>
>>>> * s390_feat_bitmap_to_ascii() misidentifies S390_FEAT_PCC_CMAC_AES_256
>>>>   as "pcc-cmac-eaes-256".  Affects QMP commands query-cpu-definitions,
>>>>   query-cpu-model-expansion, query-cpu-model-baseline,
>>>>   query-cpu-model-comparison, and the error message when
>>>>   s390_realize_cpu_model() fails in check_compatibility().
>>>>
>>>> * s390_realize_cpu_model() misidentifies it in check_consistency()
>>>>   warnings.
>>>>
>>>> * s390_cpu_list() likewise.  Affects -cpu help.
>>>>
>>>> * s390_cpu_model_register_props() creates CPU property
>>>>   "pcc-cmac-eaes-256" twice.  The second one fails, but the error is
>>>>   ignored (a later commit will change that).  Results in a single
>>>>   property "pcc-cmac-eaes-256" with the description for
>>>>   S390_FEAT_PCC_CMAC_AES_256, and no property for
>>>>   S390_FEAT_PCC_CMAC_EAES_256.  CPU properties are visible in CLI -cpu
>>>>   and -device, QMP & HMP device_add, QMP device-list-properties, and
>>>>   QOM introspection.
>>>>
>>>> Fix by deleting the wayward 'e'.
>>>
>>> Very nice catch - thanks!
>>>
>>> While this sounds very bad, it's luckily not that bad in practice
>>> (currently).
>>>
>>> The feature (or rather, both features) is part of the feature group
>>> "msa4". As long as we have all sub-features part of that group (which is
>>> usually the case), we will always indicate "msa4" to the user, instead
>>> of all the separate sub-features. So, expansion, baseline, comparison
>>> will usually only work with "msa4".
>>>
>>> (in addition, current KVM is not capable of actually masking off these
>>> sub-features, so it will still, always see the feature, even if not
>>> explicitly specified via "-cpu X,pcc-cmac-aes-256=on)
>>>
>>> I think we should do stable backports.
>> 
>> makes sense, but I would like to do some testing upfront (old QEMU <-> new 
>> QEMU
>
> So migration does work between a qemu with and without the patch for 
> host-model and
> custom model=z14. 

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