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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] s390: Fix virtio-scsi IPL quirks
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] s390: Fix virtio-scsi IPL quirks |
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Fri, 6 Apr 2018 14:34:17 +0200 |
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 14:30:45 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/05/2018 05:07 PM, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > IPL from virtio-scsi currently uses a non-standard parameter
> > type definition to pass boot parameters from QEMU to the
> > BIOS.
> >
> > There are two potential issues with this approach:
> > o If the guest operating systems requests a re-ipl of type CCW
> > where the boot device is a virtio-scsi HBA, this goes unnoticed
> > by QEMU. The BIOS will detect that it's IPLing from a SCSI
> > device, but it will boot the first LUN found, which might not
> > be the one used for the initial boot.
> > o The guest operating system can be confused by an unknown
> > IPL parameter block type. If the OS hasn't previously used
> > diag308 to store the IPL info but is changed to do so, a
> > user-observable change in behavior will happen.
> >
> > The following patches address the issues above.
> >
> > Viktor Mihajlovski (3):
> > s390: Refactor IPL parameter block generation
> > s390: Ensure IPL from SCSI works as expected
> > s390: Do not pass inofficial IPL type to the guest
> >
> > hw/s390x/ipl.c | 112
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c | 7 +++
> > pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h | 15 +++++-
> > 3 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Test looks good so far.
OK, I'll queue this to s390-fixes, then. I won't send a pull request
before Monday, so there's still a chance to fix this should problems
show up.
Thanks for testing!
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