Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] ppc: loadvm/savevm fixups for -M g3beige and -M mac99

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 20/01/15 19:26, Programmingkid wrote:

>> Ping? Particularly patches 4 and 5 will require some review as they fix
>> general target-ppc bugs when loading/saving VM state and aren't just
>> specific to the g3beige/mac99 machines.
> 
> I decided to try them out. Using Mac OS 10.2 in the guest, I opened up a
> word processor and saved the state of QEMU. I then quit QEMU and started
> it back up. When the state was loaded, the screen looked exactly how it
> should, but nothing was working. QEMU was frozen. It was using around
> 100% of the CPU time, so it might have been stuck in some kind of loop.
> Once when I tried loading a saved state, it did work. Haven't been able
> to reproduce it after several attempts. 
> 
> I suggest you use a fully installed guest OS for testing. Debian Linux 5
> is good. 
> 
> Just to note, I used QEMU 2.2.0 for testing.

Thanks for testing. Please remember the patch was designed to try and
help me locate a macio regression in a single-user mode installer
environment, and so I would be very surprised if it were safe for use in
a full OS with background disk access. Apologies if that wasn't overly
clear from the cover letter.

I did have some further patches that gave me some success during active
disk I/O but I haven't focused on them, primarily because there are
other outstanding bugs in the macio alignment code.

At the very least it should be possible to loadvm/savevm from within an
OpenBIOS Forth session consistently without crashing under both -M
g3beige and -M mac99 which was my test case for this patchset.


ATB,

Mark.