Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/isa/lpc_ich9: inject the SMI on the VCPU that is writing to APM_CNT

[Jordan Justen]

On 2015-10-20 11:14:00, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Commit 4d00636e97b7 ("ich9: Add the lpc chip", Nov 14 2012) added the
> ich9_apm_ctrl_changed() ioport write callback function such that it would
> inject the SMI, in response to a write to the APM_CNT register, on the
> first CPU, invariably.
> 
> Since this register is used by guest code to trigger an SMI synchronously,
> the interrupt should be injected on the VCPU that is performing the write.

Why not send an SMI to *all* processors, like the real chipsets do?

-Jordan

> apm_ioport_writeb() is the .write callback of the "apm_ops"
> MemoryRegionOps [hw/isa/apm.c]; it is parametrized to call
> ich9_apm_ctrl_changed() by ich9_lpc_init() [hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c], via
> apm_init(). Therefore this change affects no other board.
> 
> ich9_generate_smi() is an unrelated function that is called by the TCO
> watchdog; a watchdog is likely in its right to (asynchronously) inject
> interrupts on the first CPU only.
> 
> This patch allows the combined edk2/OVMF SMM driver stack to work with
> multiple VCPUs on TCG, using both qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64.
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Michael Kinney <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c b/hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c
> index 360699f..1ffc803 100644
> --- a/hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c
> +++ b/hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ static void ich9_apm_ctrl_changed(uint32_t val, void *arg)
>  
>      /* SMI_EN = PMBASE + 30. SMI control and enable register */
>      if (lpc->pm.smi_en & ICH9_PMIO_SMI_EN_APMC_EN) {
> -        cpu_interrupt(first_cpu, CPU_INTERRUPT_SMI);
> +        cpu_interrupt(current_cpu, CPU_INTERRUPT_SMI);
>      }
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
>