While trying to bring a VM with EPYC-Milan cpu on a host with
EPYC-Milan cpu (EPYC 7313), the following warning can be seen:
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
CPUID.07H:EBX.erms [bit 9]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
CPUID.07H:EDX.fsrm [bit 4]
Even with this warning, the host goes up.
Then, grep'ing cpuid output on both guest and host, outputs:
extended feature flags (7):
enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB = false
fast short REP MOV = false
(simple synth) = AMD EPYC (3rd Gen) (Milan B1) [Zen 3], 7nm
brand = "AMD EPYC 7313 16-Core Processor "
This means that for the same -cpu model (EPYC-Milan), the vcpu may or may
not have the above feature bits set, which is usually not a good idea for
live migration:
Migrating from a host with these features to a host without them can
be troublesome for the guest.
Remove the "optional" features (erms, fsrm) from Epyc-Milan, in order to
avoid possible after-migration guest issues.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leob...@redhat.com>
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Does this make sense? Or maybe I am missing something here.
Having a kvm guest running with a feature bit, while the host
does not support it seems to cause a possible break the guest.
target/i386/cpu.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index aa9e636800..a4bbd38ed0 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -4160,12 +4160,9 @@ static const X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
CPUID_7_0_EBX_FSGSBASE | CPUID_7_0_EBX_BMI1 | CPUID_7_0_EBX_AVX2 |
CPUID_7_0_EBX_SMEP | CPUID_7_0_EBX_BMI2 | CPUID_7_0_EBX_RDSEED |
CPUID_7_0_EBX_ADX | CPUID_7_0_EBX_SMAP | CPUID_7_0_EBX_CLFLUSHOPT |
- CPUID_7_0_EBX_SHA_NI | CPUID_7_0_EBX_CLWB | CPUID_7_0_EBX_ERMS |
- CPUID_7_0_EBX_INVPCID,
+ CPUID_7_0_EBX_SHA_NI | CPUID_7_0_EBX_CLWB | CPUID_7_0_EBX_INVPCID,
.features[FEAT_7_0_ECX] =
CPUID_7_0_ECX_UMIP | CPUID_7_0_ECX_RDPID | CPUID_7_0_ECX_PKU,
- .features[FEAT_7_0_EDX] =
- CPUID_7_0_EDX_FSRM,
.features[FEAT_XSAVE] =
CPUID_XSAVE_XSAVEOPT | CPUID_XSAVE_XSAVEC |
CPUID_XSAVE_XGETBV1 | CPUID_XSAVE_XSAVES,
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