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-rw-r--r--hw/ppc/spapr.c26
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index e35214bfc3..9e7088a192 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -2314,17 +2314,29 @@ static void spapr_set_vsmt_mode(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, Error **errp)
if (kvm_enabled() && (spapr->vsmt != kvm_smt)) {
ret = kvmppc_set_smt_threads(spapr->vsmt);
if (ret) {
+ /* Looks like KVM isn't able to change VSMT mode */
error_setg(&local_err,
"Failed to set KVM's VSMT mode to %d (errno %d)",
spapr->vsmt, ret);
- if (!vsmt_user) {
- error_append_hint(&local_err, "On PPC, a VM with %d threads/"
- "core on a host with %d threads/core requires "
- " the use of VSMT mode %d.\n",
- smp_threads, kvm_smt, spapr->vsmt);
+ /* We can live with that if the default one is big enough
+ * for the number of threads, and a submultiple of the one
+ * we want. In this case we'll waste some vcpu ids, but
+ * behaviour will be correct */
+ if ((kvm_smt >= smp_threads) && ((spapr->vsmt % kvm_smt) == 0)) {
+ warn_report_err(local_err);
+ local_err = NULL;
+ goto out;
+ } else {
+ if (!vsmt_user) {
+ error_append_hint(&local_err,
+ "On PPC, a VM with %d threads/core"
+ " on a host with %d threads/core"
+ " requires the use of VSMT mode %d.\n",
+ smp_threads, kvm_smt, spapr->vsmt);
+ }
+ kvmppc_hint_smt_possible(&local_err);
+ goto out;
}
- kvmppc_hint_smt_possible(&local_err);
- goto out;
}
}
/* else TCG: nothing to do currently */