Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v1] i386: hvf: Fix smp boot hangs

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 23/01/19 08:34, Heiher wrote:
> The machine that with hvf accelerator and smp sometimes boot hangs
> because all processors are executing instructions at startup,
> including early I/O emulations. We should just allow the bootstrap
> processor to initialize the machine and then to wake up slave
> processors by interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
> ---
>  target/i386/hvf/hvf.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/hvf/hvf.c b/target/i386/hvf/hvf.c
> index e193022c03..0921fcba45 100644
> --- a/target/i386/hvf/hvf.c
> +++ b/target/i386/hvf/hvf.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ void hvf_reset_vcpu(CPUState *cpu) {
>      }
>  
>      hv_vm_sync_tsc(0);
> -    cpu->halted = 0;
>      hv_vcpu_invalidate_tlb(cpu->hvf_fd);
>      hv_vcpu_flush(cpu->hvf_fd);
>  }
> @@ -582,8 +581,6 @@ int hvf_init_vcpu(CPUState *cpu)
>  
>      wvmcs(cpu->hvf_fd, VMCS_TPR_THRESHOLD, 0);
>  
> -    hvf_reset_vcpu(cpu);

Why this?

>      x86cpu = X86_CPU(cpu);
>      x86cpu->env.xsave_buf = qemu_memalign(4096, 4096);
>  
> @@ -659,8 +656,6 @@ int hvf_vcpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
>      int ret = 0;
>      uint64_t rip = 0;
>  
> -    cpu->halted = 0;
> -
>      if (hvf_process_events(cpu)) {
>          return EXCP_HLT;
>      }
> 

Looks good apart from the question above.

Paoo