Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: ACPI weirdness with SVN head

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>   
>> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Is this a known problem?
>>>       
>> More info. If I disable ACPI with -no-acpi the VM boots but
>>  then chews up far more of the host CPU than previously. The
>> only real explanation I can find for this on the guest side
>> is a very high number of timer interrupts:
>>
>>     guest > cat /proc/interrupts 
>>                CPU0       
>>       0:    2575369    XT-PIC-XT        timer
>>       1:          9    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>>       2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
>>       4:        536    XT-PIC-XT        serial
>>       8:          0    XT-PIC-XT        rtc0
>>       9:          0    XT-PIC-XT        virtio0
>>      11:        202    XT-PIC-XT        virtio1, eth0
>>      12:        111    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>>      14:       4176    XT-PIC-XT        ata_piix
>>      15:       3676    XT-PIC-XT        ata_piix
>>     NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
>>     LOC:          0   Local timer interrupts
>>     RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
>>     CAL:          0   function call interrupts
>>     TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
>>     TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
>>     THR:          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
>>     SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
>>     ERR:          0
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erik
>>     
>
> I stumbled over the same problem with one of my Linux guests [1], but as
> the one that locked up was built without CONFIG_ACPI, I concluded that
> this is the problem (it missed that pin1 became 2, just like your guest
> does). Have you updated your BIOS image?
>   

This error happens if you're using an older version of the BIOS.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/37767
>
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