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-rw-r--r--hw/arm/virt.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
index 90966580a3..94f93dda54 100644
--- a/hw/arm/virt.c
+++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
@@ -1543,6 +1543,8 @@ static void virt_set_memmap(VirtMachineState *vms)
  */
 static void finalize_gic_version(VirtMachineState *vms)
 {
+    unsigned int max_cpus = MACHINE(vms)->smp.max_cpus;
+
     if (kvm_enabled()) {
         int probe_bitmap;
 
@@ -1582,7 +1584,20 @@ static void finalize_gic_version(VirtMachineState *vms)
             }
             return;
         case VIRT_GIC_VERSION_NOSEL:
-            vms->gic_version = VIRT_GIC_VERSION_2;
+            if ((probe_bitmap & KVM_ARM_VGIC_V2) && max_cpus <= GIC_NCPU) {
+                vms->gic_version = VIRT_GIC_VERSION_2;
+            } else if (probe_bitmap & KVM_ARM_VGIC_V3) {
+                /*
+                 * in case the host does not support v2 in-kernel emulation or
+                 * the end-user requested more than 8 VCPUs we now default
+                 * to v3. In any case defaulting to v2 would be broken.
+                 */
+                vms->gic_version = VIRT_GIC_VERSION_3;
+            } else if (max_cpus > GIC_NCPU) {
+                error_report("host only supports in-kernel GICv2 emulation "
+                             "but more than 8 vcpus are requested");
+                exit(1);
+            }
             break;
         case VIRT_GIC_VERSION_2:
         case VIRT_GIC_VERSION_3: