** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * To avoid bugs with newer Hardware and to allow users/admins to control 
+    the KVM guests correctly we usually try to backport major CPU-
+    detect/control features back to at least the last LTS (currently Focal)
+    In SRU Terms this is under the second entry in 
+    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases
+ 
+  * In this particular case it is about skylake and cascade lake CPUs.
+    Which turned out to differ on so few details that not only the new type 
+    is needed to be known, but also the feature to parse and consider the 
+    CPU stepping needs to be added.
+    Only then can libvirt properly differ those types.
+ 
+ [Test Plan]
+ 
+  * First of all we'll (and have in advance) run general regression tests
+ 
+  * Second and for this case in particular we expect libvirt to recognize
+    skylake/cascade lake chips better. So with access to those chips you'd 
+    before the fix see both recognized as the same (wrong) and after the 
+    fix as different cpu types.
+    $ virsh domcapabilities
+    ^^ look for the host-model section
+    Comment #14 in this bug has sample output data
+ 
+  * With the fixes you can define a guest with a CascadeLake based
+    named type
+ 
+ [Where problems could occur]
+ 
+  * There are two areas to look at
+    a) compat behavior on old systems - e.g. if you used to say "host-
+       model" on two different chips that are related to these fixes you 
+       might have ended up with the same model. But now the newer chip 
+       would get the newer better definition.
+       That is correct and good - but for others might appear as a change 
+       in behavior they didn't expect.
+    b) Migrations between systems - in fact this is an area we fix for some 
+       combinations. But if e.g. (a) above applies then you can't migrate 
+       from the new to the old chip if the newer one has features enable 
+       that don't exist on the old chip.
+       Again this is what we want (better than silently failing) but for 
+       every scenario fixed there might be a combination of chips and use 
+       cases which will at first stumble over the new behavior.
+     Since we only change the named types, but not qemu implementation 
+     those issues should not be much of a problem as you can do:
+     "type X+Feat" == "type Y", but still those are the areas to look at.
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+  
+  * The change itself that is the fix/ability to differentiate those two 
+    chips is part of a larger series that mostly does rewrite manual 
+    alloc/free code into glib based auto-free. These efforts have been 
+    started before the version in Focal so everything is in place. 
+    Backporting the fix without those was evaluated but considered more 
+    risky of a regression than also pulling (the then mostly cleanly 
+    applying) code rewrites - as they are not much functional change, but 
+    more new style to do the same.
+ 
+ 
+ ---
+ 
  Hi.
  
  We have OpenStack cluster (ubuntu 20.04 ussuri) with old Skylake
  (Skylake-Server-IBRS) Intel CPU, and try to extend cluster with new
  Cascadelake (Cascadelake-Server-noTSX) servers with backward
  compatibility mode in nova.conf
  
  cpu_mode = custom
  cpu_models = Skylake-Server-IBRS
  
  But got an error:
  CPU doesn't have compatibility
  
  Similar issue for Red Hat:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1761678

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