Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH RFC] spapr: ignore interrupts during reset state

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/13/2017 09:55 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>>>> How about the following, we do not report work until MSR_EE is disabled:
>>>>
>>>> With this fix, I could test the XIVE<->XICS transitions at reboot 
>>>> under TCG. However, the second boot is very slow for some reason. 
>>>
>>> hmm, I am not sure this is related but I just got : 
>> 
>> Havent seen in my setup after around 10 reboot cycles, I was using 2
>> cores pseries setup. Lets give it some more testing. When did this
>> happen, during boot ?
>
> yes. 
>
> I could not reproduce either :/ but I am keeping the patch. qemu runs
> with :
>
> -m 2G -M pseries -accel tcg,thread=multi -cpu POWER9 -smp cores=4,maxcpus=8 
> -realtime mlock=off -kernel ./vmlinux-4.12.0+ -initrd ./initrd.img-4.12.0+ 
> -append 'console=hvc0 dyndbg="file arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/* +p"' -nographic 
> -nodefaults -serial mon:stdio -snapshot  -d guest_errors,unimp -no-shutdown
>

With 4 cores I am seeing hangs occasionally, although I havent seen a
crash. But seems to be similar problem that you had seen.

Regards,
Nikunj