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    exec: change default exception_index value for migration to -1 · adee6424
    Paolo Bonzini authored
    In QEMU 2.2 the exception_index value was added to the migration stream
    through a subsection.  The default was set to 0, which is wrong and
    should have been -1.
    
    However, 2.2 does not have commit e511b4d7 (cpu-exec: reset exception_index
    correctly, 2014-11-26), hence in 2.2 the exception_index is never used
    and is set to -1 on the next call to cpu_exec.  So we can change the
    migration stream to make the default -1.  The effects are:
    
    - 2.2.1 -> 2.2.0: cpu->exception_index set incorrectly to 0 if it
    were -1 on the source; then reset to -1 in cpu_exec.  This is TCG
    only; KVM does not use exception_index.
    
    - 2.2.0 -> 2.2.1: cpu->exception_index set incorrectly to -1 if it
    were 0 on the source; but it would be reset to -1 in cpu_exec anyway.
    This is TCG only; KVM does not use exception_index.
    
    - 2.2.1 -> 2.1: two bugs fixed: 1) can migrate backwards if
    cpu->exception_index is set to -1; 2) should not migrate backwards
    (but 2.2.0 allows it) if cpu->exception_index is set to 0
    
    - 2.2.0 -> 2.3.0: 2.2.0 will send the subsection unnecessarily if
    exception_index is -1, but that is not a problem.  2.3.0 will set
    cpu->exception_index to -1 if it is 0 on the source, but this would
    be anyway a problem for 2.2.0 -> 2.2.x migration (due to lack of
    commit e511b4d7
    
     in 2.2.x) so we can ignore it
    
    - 2.2.1 -> 2.3.0: everything works.
    
    In addition, play it safe and never send the subsection unless TCG
    is in use.  KVM does not use exception_index (PPC KVM stores values
    in it for use in the subsequent call to ppc_cpu_do_interrupt, but
    does not need it as soon as kvm_handle_debug returns).  Xen and
    qtest do not run any code for the CPU at all.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarLaurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Message-id: 1418989994-17244-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
    Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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