Re: [PATCH] Allow wake up of offline vcpu via nmi-ipi

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

On 01/18/2012 09:48 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On a real machine a cpu disabled via hlt with interrupts disabled can be
> reactivated via a nmi ipi. Enable the hypervisor to do this for hvm, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
>
>
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c |    5 ++++-

BTW: I was not able to reactivate a vcpu via INIT/SIPI/SIPI sequence. It works
on initial system boot when the target vcpu is activated the first time. If I
deactivate a vcpu and try to activate it again it will start to run, but it is
not starting at the specified entry point (at least it isn't performing the
first instruction there).
Is there some special initialization needed to make this work? Do I have to reset
something on the vcpu before deactivating it?


Juergen

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