[Qemu-devel] Re: Breakage with local APIC routing

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > 
> >> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >>> due to the change in revision 3371 (well, at that time, CVS was used, 
> >>> which was no better than Subversion) installation of win64 is broken 
> >>> in QEmu.  The commit message reads like this:
> >>>
> >>>   Don't route PIC interrupts through the local APIC if the local 
> >>>   APIC config says so. By Ari Kivity.
> >> I recalled some earlier post on this which claimed to fix the issue and 
> >> found it in the archive:
> >>
> >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/25415
> > 
> > I tried this, and it changes the symptoms, indeed.  Instead of an endless 
> > loop, it results in a bluescreen.
> > 
> > As the OP said that it worked for him, I guess it is either in commits 
> > that came after his post, or in my add-on patches.
> 
> So we are likely on the wrong path. Maybe we have to understand what
> happens here first...
> 
> > 
> > Hopefully I will find some time to work more on this bug.
> 
> Would be interesting to know
>  - if pic_irq_request is continuously called or if it stops when windows 
>    hangs
>  - what IRQ vectors are delivered
>  - in what state the apic is, namely the s->lvt[APIC_LVT_LINT0]

Sorry for the long delay.  I just don't have time to take care of the 
issue, but I quickly verified that it still does not work, with aa0cba4 
(Aug 13 2009).

If you are still interested in this issue, could you give me a hint 
_where_ I should output _which_ values?  I'll gladly take time for that 
now.

Ciao,
Dscho