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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, lersek@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:59:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561D0047.7020608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444732448-9112-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>



On 13/10/2015 12:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> While SeaBIOS only uses synchronous SMI delivery through port 0xb2,
> OVMF also uses APIC delivery, and it is buggy.
> 
> This is enough to run OVMF with SMM enabled and multiple processors,
> up to a UEFI shell, but it literally takes minutes to get there.
> However, the same behavior is visible with KVM disabled, so it may
> be a firmware bug instead.

Which it was. :)  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/2899

Paolo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-13 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-13 10:34 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-13 10:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: clean up kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-13 15:45   ` Radim Krčmář
2015-10-13 10:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-13 15:55   ` Radim Krčmář
2015-10-13 12:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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