Re: [Qemu-devel] OSX guest vs. kvm ioapic polarity

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:17:43PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > >Do you belive there's a chance we can work around this by just tweaking
> > >ACPI on the QEMU side, and thus eliminate the need for a KVM patch ?
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I was hoping. What does the IRQ link property look
> > like on a real Mac?
> 
> On the varous Mac models on which I pulled the DSDT, I have something
> like:
> 
>                 Device (LNKA) {
>                     Name (_PRS, ResourceTemplate () {
>                         IRQ (Level, ActiveLow, Shared, )
>                             {1,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,14,15}
>                     })
> 
> So yeah, definitely "Low", not "High".
> 
> Interestingly enough, on my Dell Latitude D630, the various LNK* nodes
> also have "ActiveLow" in their _PRS methods! Same with my Dell R410
> server.
> 
> > We define PCI IRQ links as
> > 
> >  254             Name(_PRS, ResourceTemplate() { \
> >  255                 Interrupt(, Level, ActiveHigh, Shared) { \
> >  256                     5, 10, 11 \
> >  257                 } \
> >  258             }) \
> > 
> > Have you tried to change this to ActiveLow?
> 
> Yes, and I also tried adding a bunch of extra IRQ numbers, but to no
> avail. OS X will boot fine with the one-liner KVM patch removing the
> statement:
> 
>     "irq_level ^= entry.fields.polarity;"
> 
> regardless of how LNK*._PRS is configured, and will hang without the
> patch, also regardless of LNK*._PRS.
> 
> Thanks,
> --G

Weird - I was sure polarity is 0 ...
Can you printk this field and irq_level value pls?