Re: SMP reboot issue

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Dong, Eddie wrote:
> SMP reboot failed with various phenomena such as user level
> "unhandled vm exit: 0x80000021 ..." when rebooting SMP RHEL5U
> or "execption 8 (0)..." when rebooting XP etc. The reason is that 
> we are not correctly reset VCPU. create_vcpu does some initialization
> work which should be part of reset job. So reset_vcpu can't do full 
> VCPU reset and thus cause AP reboot failure.
> 	The best approach is to re-org above 2 functions to make it
> clear that everything will be re-initialized in vcpu_reset. create_vcpu
> probably only allocate memory and do initialization only for those
> communicating with user level data structure. while leave others 
> including MMU reset to vcpu_reset. For now, let us
> use this small patch to fix current issue: GUEST_CR3 in VMCS is
> not correctly reseted due to enter_rmode issue.
> 	With this I get XPSP2 acpi SMP guest reboot successfully
> and also SMP Linux RHEL5U.
> thanks, eddie
>
>
>   

Applied, thanks,

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