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authorZhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>2024-03-09 00:01:37 +0800
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>2024-03-09 19:17:01 +0100
commit54c4ea8f3ae614054079395842128a856a73dbf9 (patch)
treedaba2f11067764bd0554f3fb7c72bb4a368fdcde /docs
parent72d346f3b8504804df047166164af52af4f95708 (diff)
hw/core/machine-smp: Deprecate unsupported "parameter=1" SMP configurations
Currently, it was allowed for users to specify the unsupported topology parameter as "1". For example, x86 PC machine doesn't support drawer/book/cluster topology levels, but user could specify "-smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1". This is meaningless and confusing, so that the support for this kind of configurations is marked deprecated since 9.0. And report warning message for such case like: qemu-system-x86_64: warning: Deprecated CPU topology (considered invalid): Unsupported clusters parameter mustn't be specified as 1 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: Deprecated CPU topology (considered invalid): Unsupported books parameter mustn't be specified as 1 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: Deprecated CPU topology (considered invalid): Unsupported drawers parameter mustn't be specified as 1 Users have to ensure that all the topology members described with -smp are supported by the target machine. Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240308160148.3130837-3-zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ The ``-p`` option pretends to control the host page size. However,
it is not possible to change the host page size, and using the
option only causes failures.
+``-smp`` (Unsupported "parameter=1" SMP configurations) (since 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Specified CPU topology parameters must be supported by the machine.
+
+In the SMP configuration, users should provide the CPU topology parameters that
+are supported by the target machine.
+
+However, historically it was allowed for users to specify the unsupported
+topology parameter as "1", which is meaningless. So support for this kind of
+configurations (e.g. -smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1 for x86 PC machine) is
+marked deprecated since 9.0, users have to ensure that all the topology members
+described with -smp are supported by the target machine.
+
QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
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