In the SMP configuration, we should either specify a topology parameter with a reasonable value (equal to or greater than 1) or just leave it omitted and QEMU will calculate its value. Configurations which explicitly specify the topology parameters as zero like "sockets=0" are meaningless, so disallow them.
However; the commit 1e63fe685804d (machine: pass QAPI struct to mc->smp_parse) has documented that '0' has the same semantics as omitting a parameter in the qapi comment for SMPConfiguration. So this patch fixes the doc and also adds the corresponding sanity check in the smp parsers. This patch originly comes form [1], and it was suggested that this patch fixing the doc should be sent for 6.1 to avoid a deprecation process in the future. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ypwsthpiza3mf...@redhat.com/ Yanan Wang (1): machine: Disallow specifying topology parameters as zero hw/core/machine.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- hw/i386/pc.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- qapi/machine.json | 6 +++--- 3 files changed; 49 insertions(+); 20 deletions(-) -- 2.19.1