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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>,
	Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Subject: [PULL 19/24] smbios: in case of entry point is 'auto' try to build v2 tables 1st
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:16:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4840c8a2b4666cf1b320a387c3f8b609258e7654.1710778506.git.mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1710778506.git.mst@redhat.com>

From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

QEMU for some time now uses SMBIOS 3.0 for PC/Q35 machines by
default, however Windows has a bug in locating SMBIOS 3.0
entrypoint and fails to find tables when booted on SeaBIOS
(on UEFI SMBIOS 3.0 tables work fine since firmware hands
over tables in another way)

Missing SMBIOS tables may lead to some issues for guest
though (worst are: possible reactiveation, inability to
get virtio drivers from 'Windows Update')

It's unclear  at this point if MS will fix the issue on their
side. So instead of it (or rather in addition) this patch
will try to workaround the issue.

aka, use smbios-entry-point-type=auto to make QEMU try
generating conservative SMBIOS 2.0 tables and if that
fails (due to limits/requested configuration) fallback
to SMBIOS 3.0 tables.

With this in place majority of users will use SMBIOS 2.0
tables which work fine with (Windows + legacy BIOS).
The configurations that is not to possible to describe
with SMBIOS 2.0 will switch automatically to SMBIOS 3.0
(which will trigger Windows bug but there is nothing
QEMU can do here, so go and aks Microsoft to real fix).

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Message-Id: <20240314152302.2324164-17-imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 hw/smbios/smbios.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/smbios/smbios.c b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
index 48713aa505..b0467347c5 100644
--- a/hw/smbios/smbios.c
+++ b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ static void smbios_entry_point_setup(SmbiosEntryPointType ep_type)
     }
 }
 
-void smbios_get_tables(MachineState *ms,
+static bool smbios_get_tables_ep(MachineState *ms,
                        SmbiosEntryPointType ep_type,
                        const struct smbios_phys_mem_area *mem_array,
                        const unsigned int mem_array_size,
@@ -1091,6 +1091,7 @@ void smbios_get_tables(MachineState *ms,
                        Error **errp)
 {
     unsigned i, dimm_cnt, offset;
+    ERRP_GUARD();
 
     assert(ep_type == SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_32 ||
            ep_type == SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_64);
@@ -1177,11 +1178,56 @@ void smbios_get_tables(MachineState *ms,
         abort();
     }
 
-    return;
+    return true;
 err_exit:
     g_free(smbios_tables);
     smbios_tables = NULL;
-    return;
+    return false;
+}
+
+void smbios_get_tables(MachineState *ms,
+                       SmbiosEntryPointType ep_type,
+                       const struct smbios_phys_mem_area *mem_array,
+                       const unsigned int mem_array_size,
+                       uint8_t **tables, size_t *tables_len,
+                       uint8_t **anchor, size_t *anchor_len,
+                       Error **errp)
+{
+    Error *local_err = NULL;
+    bool is_valid;
+    ERRP_GUARD();
+
+    switch (ep_type) {
+    case SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_AUTO:
+    case SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_32:
+        is_valid = smbios_get_tables_ep(ms, SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_32,
+                                        mem_array, mem_array_size,
+                                        tables, tables_len,
+                                        anchor, anchor_len,
+                                        &local_err);
+        if (is_valid || ep_type != SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_AUTO) {
+            break;
+        }
+        /*
+         * fall through in case AUTO endpoint is selected and
+         * SMBIOS 2.x tables can't be generated, to try if SMBIOS 3.x
+         * tables would work
+         */
+    case SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_64:
+        error_free(local_err);
+        local_err = NULL;
+        is_valid = smbios_get_tables_ep(ms, SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_64,
+                                        mem_array, mem_array_size,
+                                        tables, tables_len,
+                                        anchor, anchor_len,
+                                        &local_err);
+        break;
+    default:
+        abort();
+    }
+    if (!is_valid) {
+        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
+    }
 }
 
 static void save_opt(const char **dest, QemuOpts *opts, const char *name)
-- 
MST



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-18 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 16:15 [PULL 00/24] virtio,pc,pci: bugfixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 01/24] SMBIOS: fix long lines Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 02/24] qapi: document PCIe Gen5/Gen6 speeds since 9.0 Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 03/24] docs/specs/pvpanic: mark shutdown event as not implemented Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 04/24] tests: smbios: make it possible to write SMBIOS only test Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 05/24] tests: smbios: add test for -smbios type=11 option Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 06/24] tests: smbios: add test for legacy mode CLI options Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 07/24] smbios: cleanup smbios_get_tables() from legacy handling Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 08/24] smbios: get rid of smbios_smp_sockets global Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:15 ` [PULL 09/24] smbios: get rid of smbios_legacy global Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 10/24] smbios: avoid mangling user provided tables Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 11/24] smbios: don't check type4 structures in legacy mode Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 12/24] smbios: add smbios_add_usr_blob_size() helper Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 13/24] smbios: rename/expose structures/bitmaps used by both legacy and modern code Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 14/24] smbios: build legacy mode code only for 'pc' machine Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 15/24] smbios: handle errors consistently Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 16/24] smbios: get rid of global smbios_ep_type Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 17/24] smbios: clear smbios_type4_count before building tables Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 18/24] smbios: extend smbios-entry-point-type with 'auto' value Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 20/24] smbios: error out when building type 4 table is not possible Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 21/24] tests: acpi/smbios: whitelist expected blobs Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 22/24] pc/q35: set SMBIOS entry point type to 'auto' by default Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:16 ` [PULL 23/24] tests: acpi: update expected SSDT.dimmpxm blob Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-18 16:17 ` [PULL 24/24] smbios: add extra comments to smbios_get_table_legacy() Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-03-19 14:25 ` [PULL 00/24] virtio,pc,pci: bugfixes Peter Maydell

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