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[PATCH] vtdt: add a missing change (RE: [Xen-devel] Re: xen guest hang w

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] vtdt: add a missing change (RE: [Xen-devel] Re: xen guest hang with TSC_DEADLINE)
From: "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:05:41 +0800
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Thread-topic: [PATCH] vtdt: add a missing change (RE: [Xen-devel] Re: xen guest hang with TSC_DEADLINE)
Christoph Egger wrote on 2010-12-20:
>>> c/s 22529 and 22530 cause a xen guest hang.
>>> 
>>> While "normal" guests like Linux and NetBSD boot fine I boot Xen
>>> itself as a xen guest for my nested virtualization.
>>> 
>>> When I do that then the guest dom0 hangs at boot when it tries to
>>> initialize the first vcpu.
>>> The bug is introduced somewhere in c/s 22529 and triggers with c/s 22530.
>> 
>> Can you enable apic_timer debug info var hvm_debug and give more
>> serial port log around the guest dom0 hangs? I used to test xen
>> guest, it works well expect that it boot a little bit slowly.
> 
> This is the log output I get with TSC_DEADLINE feature enabled:

Just found one change was missed while the whole patch was checked in. Apply 
below patch, it should be ok now.

diff -r 0133cf2a72f5 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c Fri Dec 24 10:56:29 2010 +0000
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c Tue Dec 28 16:53:06 2010 +0800
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static unsigned int vlapic_lvt_mask[VLAP
 static unsigned int vlapic_lvt_mask[VLAPIC_LVT_NUM] =
 {
      /* LVTT */
-     LVT_MASK | APIC_TIMER_MODE_PERIODIC,
+     LVT_MASK | APIC_TIMER_MODE_MASK,
      /* LVTTHMR */
      LVT_MASK | APIC_MODE_MASK,
      /* LVTPC */

Jimmy


Attachment: vtdt-fix.patch
Description: vtdt-fix.patch

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