On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
wrote:

> CC Paolo as maintainer
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:57:32PM +0200, Hector Cao wrote:
> > Prior to v10.1, if requested by user, arch-capabilities is always on
> > despite the fact that CPUID advertises it to be off/unvailable.
> > this causes a migration issue for VMs that are run on a machine
> > without arch-capabilities and expect this feature to be present
> > on the destination host with QEMU 10.1.
> >
> > This commit add a compatibility property to restore the legacy
> > behavior for all machines with version prior to 10.1
> >
>
> Can you add a 'Fixes: <hash>' line to refer to the orignial
> commit in 10.1 that introduced the regression.
>

Thanks Daniel for the feedback,

Since this patch is a PoC at the moment,  I will submit the final one later
once I have enough feedback

Here is the line I will add to this patch header:

Fixes: d3a2413


>
> > Signed-off-by: Hector Cao <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  hw/core/machine.c     |  1 +
> >  migration/migration.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  migration/options.c   |  3 +++
> >  target/i386/kvm/kvm.c |  5 ++++-
> >  4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
> > index 38c949c4f2..8ad5d79cb3 100644
> > --- a/hw/core/machine.c
> > +++ b/hw/core/machine.c
> > @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ GlobalProperty hw_compat_10_0[] = {
> >      { "vfio-pci", "x-migration-load-config-after-iter", "off" },
> >      { "ramfb", "use-legacy-x86-rom", "true"},
> >      { "vfio-pci-nohotplug", "use-legacy-x86-rom", "true" },
> > +    { "migration", "arch-cap-always-on", "true" },
> >  };
> >  const size_t hw_compat_10_0_len = G_N_ELEMENTS(hw_compat_10_0);
> >
> > diff --git a/migration/migration.h b/migration/migration.h
> > index 01329bf824..5124ff3636 100644
> > --- a/migration/migration.h
> > +++ b/migration/migration.h
> > @@ -510,6 +510,18 @@ struct MigrationState {
> >      bool rdma_migration;
> >
> >      GSource *hup_source;
> > +
> > +    /*
> > +     * This variable allows to keep the backward compatibility with
> QEMU (<10.1)
> > +     * on the arch-capabilities detection.
> > +     * With the commit d3a2413 (since 10.1), the arch-capabilities
> feature is gated
> > +     * with the CPUID bit (CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES) instead of
> being always
> > +     * enabled when user requests for it. this new behavior breaks
> migration of VMs
> > +     * created and run with older QEMU on machines without
> IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR,
> > +     * those VMs might have arch-capabilities enabled and break when
> migrating
> > +     * to a host with QEMU 10.1 with error : missing feature
> arch-capabilities
> > +     */
> > +    bool arch_cap_always_on;
> >  };
> >
> >  void migrate_set_state(MigrationStatus *state, MigrationStatus
> old_state,
> > diff --git a/migration/options.c b/migration/options.c
> > index 4e923a2e07..3a80dba9c5 100644
> > --- a/migration/options.c
> > +++ b/migration/options.c
> > @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ const Property migration_properties[] = {
> >                          MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_SWITCHOVER_ACK),
> >      DEFINE_PROP_MIG_CAP("x-dirty-limit",
> MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_DIRTY_LIMIT),
> >      DEFINE_PROP_MIG_CAP("mapped-ram", MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_MAPPED_RAM),
> > +
> > +    DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("arch-cap-always-on", MigrationState,
> > +                     arch_cap_always_on, false),
> >  };
> >  const size_t migration_properties_count =
> ARRAY_SIZE(migration_properties);
> >
> > diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > index 306430a052..e2ec4e6de5 100644
> > --- a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > +++ b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
> >  #include "xen-emu.h"
> >  #include "hyperv.h"
> >  #include "hyperv-proto.h"
> > +#include "migration/migration.h"
> >
> >  #include "gdbstub/enums.h"
> >  #include "qemu/host-utils.h"
> > @@ -438,6 +439,7 @@ uint32_t kvm_arch_get_supported_cpuid(KVMState *s,
> uint32_t function,
> >      uint32_t ret = 0;
> >      uint32_t cpuid_1_edx, unused;
> >      uint64_t bitmask;
> > +    MigrationState *ms = migrate_get_current();
> >
> >      cpuid = get_supported_cpuid(s);
> >
> > @@ -508,7 +510,8 @@ uint32_t kvm_arch_get_supported_cpuid(KVMState *s,
> uint32_t function,
> >           * mcahines at all, do not show the fake ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR
> that
> >           * KVM sets up.
> >           */
> > -        if (!has_msr_arch_capabs || !(edx &
> CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES)) {
> > +        if (!has_msr_arch_capabs
> > +            || (!(edx & CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES) &&
> (!ms->arch_cap_always_on))) {
> >              ret &= ~CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES;
> >          }
> >      } else if (function == 7 && index == 1 && reg == R_EAX) {
> > --
> > 2.45.2
> >
> >
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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