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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] pc: acpi: fix WindowsXP BSOD when memory ho


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] pc: acpi: fix WindowsXP BSOD when memory hotplug is enabled
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:33:09 +0200

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:05:37AM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 22:57:05 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 04:08:00PM +0000, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > ACPI parser in XP considers PNP0A06 devices of CPU and
> > > memory hotplug as duplicates. Adding unique _UID
> > > to CPU hotplug device fixes BSOD.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> > 
> > And let's add them for memory hotplug as well?
> XP doesn't support it.
> > Also, if we do stable branch release, we probably
> > want to only do it for memory hotplug in a separate
> > patch, right?
> > This way users who don't enable memory hotplug
> > are unaffected, reduces risk slightly.
> Memory hotplug device already has _UID, so it doesn't need patching.
> This patch just fixes BSOD if QEMU has been started with
> hotplug enabled i.e. for example -m 2G,slots=2,maxmem=4G,
> and prevents clashing between memory hotplug and
> cpu hotplug devices on XP (i.e. XP specific quirk).
> 
> I've tested it with XPsp3 and all later version upto WS2012R2.


I see, I misunderstood.
Thanks, I'll apply this one.

> 
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl 
> > > b/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl
> > > index 34aab5a..268d870 100644
> > > --- a/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl
> > > +++ b/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplug.dsl
> > > @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Scope(\_SB) {
> > >  
> > >      Device(CPU_HOTPLUG_RESOURCE_DEVICE) {
> > >          Name(_HID, EisaId("PNP0A06"))
> > > +        Name(_UID, "CPU hotplug resources")
> > >  
> > >          Name(_CRS, ResourceTemplate() {
> > >              IO(Decode16, CPU_STATUS_BASE, CPU_STATUS_BASE, 0, 
> > > CPU_STATUS_LEN)
> > > -- 
> > > 1.8.3.1



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