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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:52:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] rhel: Set host-phys-bits-limit=48 on rhel machine-types

RH-Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20181213155200.20300-3-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 83480
O-Subject: [RHEL8/rhel qemu-kvm PATCH 2/2] rhel: Set host-phys-bits-limit=48 on rhel machine-types
Bugzilla: 1598284
RH-Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Upstream status: not applicable

Currently we use the host physical address size by default on
VMs.  This was a good default on most cases, but this is not the
case on host CPUs supporting 5-level EPT.  On those cases, we
want VMs to use 4-level EPT by default.

Ensure VMs will use 4-level EPT by default, by limiting physical
address bits to 48.

Not applicable upstream because upstream doesn't set
host-phys-bits=on by default.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
---
 include/hw/i386/pc.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
index 285e8df..c29176d 100644
--- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
+++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
@@ -963,6 +963,11 @@ extern void igd_passthrough_isa_bridge_create(PCIBus *bus, uint16_t gpu_dev_id);
             .property = "host-phys-bits",\
             .value = "on",\
         },\
+        { /* PC_RHEL_COMPAT */ \
+            .driver = TYPE_X86_CPU,\
+            .property = "host-phys-bits-limit",\
+            .value = "48",\
+        },\
         { /* PC_RHEL_COMPAT bz 1508330 */ \
             .driver = "vfio-pci",\
             .property = "x-no-geforce-quirks",\
-- 
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