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

[Peter Maydell]

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.

thanks
-- PMM