Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvm-unit-tests PATCH] x86: hyperv_synic: Hyper-V SynIC test

[Roman Kagan]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:16:02PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/10/2015 10:56, Andrey Smetanin wrote:
> > Hyper-V SynIC is a Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller.
> > 
> > The test runs on every vCPU and performs the following steps:
> > * read from all Hyper-V SynIC MSR's
> > * setup Hyper-V SynIC evt/msg pages
> > * setup SINT's routing
> > * inject SINT's into destination vCPU by 'hyperv-synic-test-device'
> > * wait for SINT's isr's completion
> > * clear Hyper-V SynIC evt/msg pages and destroy SINT's routing
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin <address@hidden>
> > Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
> > CC: Vitaly Kuznetsov <address@hidden>
> > CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <address@hidden>
> > CC: Gleb Natapov <address@hidden>
> > CC: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> > CC: Roman Kagan <address@hidden>
> > CC: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> > CC: address@hidden
> 
> Bad news.
> 
> The test breaks with APICv, because of the following sequence of events:

Thanks for testing and analyzing this!

(... running around looking for an APICv-capable machine to be able to
catch this ourselves before we resubmit ...)

> The question then is... does Hyper-V actually use auto-EOI interrupts?
> If it doesn't, we might as well not implement them... :/

As Den wrote, we've yet to see a hyperv device which doesn't :(

Roman.