Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] GICv3 emulation

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2016/6/22 15:43, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:42:29AM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 2016/6/22 3:53, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> > > On 21 June 2016 at 20:45, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> > >> > On 06/21/16 19:21, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>>>> > >>> >> and add a note I forgot to mention: my primary hypothesis is 
>>>>>>> > >>> >> that
>>>>>>> > >>> >> the problem here is "guest does not write to the GICD_IGROUPR 
>>>>>>> > >>> >> and
>>>>>>> > >>> >> GICR_IGROUPR registers to program the interrupts it's using as
>>>>>>> > >>> >> group 1, but still expects to get IRQs rather than FIQs".
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > ... and it (or whatever else is the root cause) seems to manifest 
>>>>> > >> > in
>>>>> > >> > either the Stall() UEFI boot service, or in UEFI timer events. 
>>>>> > >> > (This
>>>>> > >> > seems to follow from the last debug log entry from Shannon:
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > [Bds]BdsWait(3)..Zzzz...
>>>>> > >> > )
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > ... Just to make it clear: does it reproduce with KVM? Or is that
>>>>> > >> > untested perhaps (due to lack of GICv3 hardware e.g.)?
>>> > > Upthread Shannon said it worked with KVM enabled. Note that
>>> > > KVM's GICv3 emulation is incorrect in that it does not support
>>> > > interrupt groups, so all interrupt groups are Group 1 and
>>> > > generate IRQ even if the guest doesn't do anything to
>>> > > configure them.
>> > It does work with KVM enabled. It also works with UEFI and the upstream
>> > linux kernel while it doesn't work with UEFI and a FreeBSD guest since
>> > the FreeBSD doesn't correctly set the IGROUPR, I think.
> Doesn't appear to be FreeBSD specific, as I'm using a Linux kernel and
> can reproduce. Besides, it doesn't even make it to grub.
> 
>> > 
>> > I can't find the commit ID of the UEFI I use but I used the upsream
>> > codes of June 15.
>> > Andrew, I suggest you use the QEMU mainline which includes the GICv3
>> > emulation and the guest kernel with the commit 7c9b973061.
> Yeah, I hadn't noticed that gicv3 made it to mainline. I've switched
> to that now. My guest kernel does have 7c9b973061 (I backported it to
> the RHELSA kernel)

I just used a new UEFI binary which is built on 8f88f02 and the upstream
linux kernel. It boots as well.
Could you try the upstream linux kernel?

Thanks,
-- 
Shannon