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virtio-blk: hide VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE from old machine types

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QEMU has a policy of keeping a stable guest device ABI.  When new guest device
features are introduced they must not change hardware info seen by existing
guests.  This is important because operating systems or applications may
"fingerprint" the hardware and refuse to run when the hardware changes.  To
always get the latest guest device ABI, run with x86 machine type "pc".

This patch hides the new VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE virtio feature bit from
existing machine types.  Only pc-1.2 and later will expose this feature
by default.

For more info on the VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE feature bit, see:

  commit 13e3dce068
  Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Aug 9 16:07:19 2012 +0200

      virtio-blk: support VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE

      Also rename VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCACHE to VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE for consistency with
      the spec.

      Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> reported:

  This broke qemu-test because it changed the pc-1.0 machine type:

  Setting guest RANDOM seed to 47167
  *** Running tests ***
  Running test /tests/finger-print.sh...		OK
  --- fingerprints/pc-1.0.x86_64	2011-12-18 13:08:40.000000000 -0600
  +++ fingerprint.txt	2012-08-12 13:30:48.000000000 -0500
  @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/subsystem_device=0x0002
   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/class=0x010000
   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/revision=0x00
  -/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/virtio/host-features=0x710006d4
  +/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/virtio/host-features=0x71000ed4
   /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor=Bochs
   /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date=01/01/2007
   /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version=Bochs
  Guest fingerprint changed for pc-1.0!

Reported-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2012-08-16 09:57:49 +01:00 • committed by Kevin Wolf
parent 48467328c6
commit eec7f96c2c
4 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct VirtIOBlkConf
BlockConf conf;
char *serial;
uint32_t scsi;
uint32_t config_wce;
};
#define DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(_state, _field) \