Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu-kvm] Fix: SCI isn't sent on cpu hotplug

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-01-09 11:07, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:03:10AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-01-09 09:47, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:40:04PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>>>  Change introduced by e71f08bb4a
>>>>     "Fix cpu/pci hotplug to generate level triggered interrupt."
>>>>  was lost somewhre along the way. And as result SCI is not sent in
>>>>  case of cpu hotplug event.
>>>>  Restoring hunk 1 of e71f08bb4a fixes issue.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, I sent similar patch [1] last time someone complained about cpu hotplug
>>> here. Which remind me that in that thread more problem were found in cpu
>>> hotplug. IIRC Jan collected all the patches. Jan, what happened to
>>> them?
>>
>> My patches should have been superseded by the work of Ping Fan on the
>> ICC bus.
>>
> Didn't they fix some problems with bringing new cpu online, not just
> making cpu hotplugable in qdev? May be I misremember.

Let me check... Hmm, yes, there were also some bits required to bring up
the new VCPU thread properly and sync its initial state to the kernel.
That was not part of Ping Fan's ICC patches, also not of the VCPU life
cycle patches.

> BTW do you know
> what happened with ICC bus patches?

Were forgotten to merge? And/or they lacked some acked-by or
reviewed-by. :-/

Jan

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