Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: Use apic_id_limit when calculating legacy ACPI table size

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/12/2014 17:38, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> The code that calculates the legacy ACPI table size for migration
> compatibility uses max_cpus when calculating legacy_aml_len (the size of
> the DSDT and SSDT tables). However, the SSDT grows according to APIC ID
> limit, not max_cpus.
> 
> The bug is not triggered very often because of the 4k alignment on the
> table size. But it can be triggered if you are unlucky enough to cross a
> 4k boundary. For example, using the following:
> 
>   $ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-i440fx-2.0 -smp 
> 99,sockets=3,cores=33,threads=1
>   qemu-system-x86_64: Warning: migration may not work.
> 
> Change the legacy_aml_len calculation to use apic_id_limit, to calculate
> the right size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> index a4d0c0c..359fb43 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> @@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ void acpi_build(PcGuestInfo *guest_info, 
> AcpiBuildTables *tables)
>           */
>          int legacy_aml_len =
>              guest_info->legacy_acpi_table_size +
> -            ACPI_BUILD_LEGACY_CPU_AML_SIZE * max_cpus;
> +            ACPI_BUILD_LEGACY_CPU_AML_SIZE * guest_info->apic_id_limit;
>          int legacy_table_size =
>              ROUND_UP(tables->table_data->len - aml_len + legacy_aml_len,
>                       ACPI_BUILD_ALIGN_SIZE);
> 

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>