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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/9] pc: adjust e820 map on hot-add and hot-
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Vasilis Liaskovitis |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/9] pc: adjust e820 map on hot-add and hot-remove |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:27:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 04:58:47PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
> > Hotplugged memory is not persistent in the e820 memory maps. After
> > hotplugging
> > a memslot and rebooting the VM, the hotplugged device is not present.
> >
> > A possible solution is to add an e820 for the new memslot in the acpi_piix4
> > hot-add handler. On a reset, Seabios (see next patch in series) will
> > enable all
> > memory devices for which it finds an e820 entry that covers the devices's
> > address
> > range.
> >
> > On hot-remove, the acpi_piix4 handler will try to remove the e820 entry
> > corresponding to the device. This will work when no VM reboots happen
> > between hot-add and hot-remove, but it is not a sufficient solution in
> > general: Seabios and GuestOS merge adjacent e820 entries on machine reboot,
> > so the sequence hot-add/ rebootVM / hot-remove will fail to remove a
> > corresponding e820 entry at the hot-remove phase.
> >
> Why do you need this path and the next one? Bios can restore the state
> of memslots and build e820 map by reading mems_sts.
i see, that is a simpler solution. Since qemu currently creates most ram e820map
entries and passes them to seabios, I tried to follow the same approach. But
your suggestion makes things easier and we don't have to worry about merged e820
entries on hot-remove. I 'll rework it.
thanks,
Vasilis
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/9][SeaBIOS] Implement acpi-dsdt functions for memory hotplug., (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/9][SeaBIOS] Implement acpi-dsdt functions for memory hotplug., Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/9][SeaBIOS] acpi: generate hotplug memory devices., Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/9][SeaBIOS] Add SSDT memory device support, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/9] Implement memslot device abstraction, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/9] acpi_piix4: Implement memory device hotplug registers, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 9/9][SeaBIOS] enable memory devices if e820 entry is present, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/9] pc: adjust e820 map on hot-add and hot-remove, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 6/9] pc: pass paravirt info for hotplug memory slots to BIOS, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 7/9] Implement memslot command-line option and memslot hmp command, Vasilis Liaskovitis, 2012/04/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] ACPI memory hotplug, Anthony Liguori, 2012/04/19