On 04.02.2014, at 03:05, Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> wrote:

> On 02/04/2014 08:53 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> We sync a lot of SPRs automatically between KVM and QEMU now. Some
>> of these only matter on newer hardware, some only matter on HV KVM.
>> 
>> With the current code runnign on my reasonably recent PR KVM kernel
>> I get a lot of SPR synchronization warnings though:
>> 
>>  $ ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -enable-kvm
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 17 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 29 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 157 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 308 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 309 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 318 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 770 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 945 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 946 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 1013 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 17 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 29 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 157 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 308 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 309 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 318 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 770 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 945 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 946 to KVM: Invalid argument
>>  Warning: Unable to set SPR 1013 to KVM: Invalid argument
>> 
>> Eventually we want to have something like a "verbose" flag that allows
>> us to get these warnings when we see something goes wrong. But until
>> then they do more harm than good exposed to casual users, so let's move
>> them to debug prints.
> 
> Why are not these tracepoints? Then we would not need any "verbose" flag.

True, we should convert all of the debug prints to trace points. But that's for 
later :).


Alex


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