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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1297651] [NEW] KVM create a win7 guest with Qemu,
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1297651] [NEW] KVM create a win7 guest with Qemu, it boots up fail |
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Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:31:56 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:45:10AM -0000, Robert Hu wrote:
CCing Laszlo, Michael, and Marcel for ACPI
> Public bug reported:
>
> Environment:
> ------------
> Host OS (ia32/ia32e/IA64):ia32e
> Guest OS (ia32/ia32e/IA64):ia32e
> Guest OS Type (Linux/Windows):Windows
> kvm.git Commit:94b3ffcd41a90d2cb0b32ca23aa58a01111d5dc0
> qemu-kvm Commit:839a5547574e57cce62f49bfc50fe1f04b00589a
> Host Kernel Version:3.14.0-rc3
> Hardware:Romley_EP, Ivytown_EP, HSW_EP
>
>
> Bug detailed description:
> --------------------------
> when create a win7 guest, the guest boot up fail.
>
> note:
> 1. when create win2000, winxp, win2k3, win2k8, guest, the guest boot up fail.
> 2. when create win8, win8.1, win2012 guest, the guest boot up fine.
>
>
> Reproduce steps:
> ----------------
> 1.create guest
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -net none -hda /root/win7.qcow
>
>
> Current result:
> ----------------
> win7 guest boot up fail
>
> Expected result:
> ----------------
> win7 guest boot up fine
>
> Basic root-causing log:
> ----------------------
>
> This should be a qemu bug
> kvm + qemu = result
> 94b3ffcd + 839a5547 = bad
> 94b3ffcd + 3a87f8b6 = good
>
> the first bad commit is:
> commit 9bcc80cd71892df42605e0c097d85c0237ff45d1
> Author: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon Mar 17 17:05:16 2014 +0100
>
> i386/acpi-build: allow more than 255 elements in CPON
>
> The build_ssdt() function builds a number of AML objects that are related
> to CPU hotplug, and whose IDs form a contiguous sequence of APIC IDs.
> (APIC IDs are in fact discontiguous, but this is the traditional
> interface: build a contiguous sequence from zero up that covers all
> possible APIC IDs.) These objects are:
>
> - a Processor() object for each VCPU,
> - a NTFY method, with one branch for each VCPU,
> - a CPON package with one element (hotplug status byte) for each VCPU.
>
> The build_ssdt() function currently limits the *count* of processor
> objects, and NTFY branches, and CPON elements, in 0xFF (see the assignment
> to "acpi_cpus"). This allows for an inclusive APIC ID range of [0..254].
> This is incorrect, because the highest APIC ID that we otherwise allow a
> VCPU to take is 255.
>
> In order to extend the maximum count to 256, and the traversed APIC ID
> range correspondingly to [0..255]:
> - the Processor() objects need no change,
> - the NTFY method also needs no change,
> - the CPON package must be updated, because it is defined with a
> DefPackage, and the number of elements in such a package can be at most
> 255. We pick a DefVarPackage instead.
>
> We replace the Op byte, and the encoding of the number of elements.
> Compare:
>
> DefPackage := PackageOp PkgLength NumElements PackageElementList
> DefVarPackage := VarPackageOp PkgLength VarNumElements PackageElementList
>
> PackageOp := 0x12
> VarPackageOp := 0x13
>
> NumElements := ByteData
> VarNumElements := TermArg => Integer
>
> The build_append_int() function implements precisely the following TermArg
> encodings (a subset of what the ACPI spec describes):
>
> TermArg := DataObject
> DataObject := ComputationalData
> ComputationalData := ConstObj | ByteConst | WordConst | DWordConst
> directly encoded in the function, with build_append_byte():
> ConstObj := ZeroOp | OneOp
> ZeroOp := 0x00
> OneOp := 0x01
>
> call to build_append_value(..., 1):
> ByteConst := BytePrefix ByteData
> BytePrefix := 0x0A
> ByteData := 0x00 - 0xFF
>
> call to build_append_value(..., 2):
> WordConst := WordPrefix WordData
> WordPrefix := 0x0B
> WordData := ByteData[0:7] ByteData[8:15]
>
> call to build_append_value(..., 4):
> DWordConst := DWordPrefix DWordData
> DWordPrefix := 0x0C
> DWordData := WordData[0:15] WordData[16:31]
>
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
>
> ** Affects: qemu
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297651
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