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Re: [Qemu-devel] winXP "Standard PC" HAL and qemu-kvm >= 0.15


From: Michael Tokarev
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] winXP "Standard PC" HAL and qemu-kvm >= 0.15
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:29:31 +0400
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[Added Jan Kiszka to Cc]

On 06.12.2011 18:45, Michael Tokarev wrote:
[complete thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/82705]

> More data points (all against qemu-kvm-0.15.0).
> 
> First, as Avi pointed out, this patch references PIC which is
> used by standardPC HAL and not used by ACPI HAL.  So it might
> be something to think about, at least.
> 
> Now, so far, all deviecs which are on IRQ11 are affected.  When
> enabling USB and NIC, they both gets assigned to IRQ11 and both
> does not work.  When enabling just one of them (either), only
> that device (which gets assigned to IRQ11) does not work.  All
> other devices apparently works fine (including PS/2 Mouse on
> IRQ12).
> 
> When using just one of NIC/USB, all IRQs in the guest becomes
> single-device, so IRQ sharing isn't a problem.
> 
> I wasn't able to force the guest to use IRQ10 so far (to verify).
> 
> Also, when booted with -no-kvm-irqchip, guest Just Works, including
> USB and NIC sharing IRQ11.
> 
> While on IRC there was one more person who suffered from the same
> issue, now with Win2003.  He was able to solve his guest issue by
> changing StandardPC HAL into ACPI HAL, using a "hackish" way (by
> replacing C:\Windows\System32\HAL.DLL into HALACPI.DLL as found
> on win2k3 installation CDROM).  I wasn't able to replace stdhal
> into anything else on my test winXP machine - after changing HAL.DLL,
> on next reboot my guest complains about being unable to find boot
> device (BSOD STOP 0x7b) - despite using stdIDE and mergeide.  I'll
> investigate the guest side further later.
> 
> When in this funky mode with non-working IRQ11 (when a NIC (rtl8139)
> is assigned to it), winXP guest shows huge delays when trying to
> open "My Computer" properties - it freezes for 30..40 seconds after
> hitting "Properties" in the context menu.  I can only guess it is
> trying to do something with the IRQs at that time, which does not
> work.  I wasn't able to (quickly) find a tool for winXP to show
> IRQ statistics.
> 
> That's about all the info so far which I know about this issue.


It appears there are two issues here, one is fixed by
09de0f469c3c2a277c7874f6c60992c8b94719a9 and is 32bit-only, and
another bisect leads to this commit:

commit 59539c913383fdd3350681301b44f02fa7ee2757
Author: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jun 27 12:22:28 2011 +0200

    qemu-kvm: Fix in-kernel PIC reset

    Lacking sync of the user space state to the kernel after system reset
    left the PIC behind in an undefined state. This broke IRQ delivery in
    some scenarios, e.g. when resetting while in the BIOS.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>


Reverting this single commit on top of 0.15.0 fixes the guest issues
described in this thread.

This commit is qemu-kvm-specific (and indeed, the issue only affects
qemu-kvm).

Note also that as per above, -no-kvm-irqchip fixes the guest issue too.

Anything wrong with this patch?

Thanks,

/mjt



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