vhost does not support RO protections on memory at the moment - adding
ROMs would mean that e.g. a buggy guest might change them in-memory - a
condition from which guest reset does not recover. Not nice.
We also definitely don't want to try logging writes into ROMs -
in particular guests set very high addresses for ROM BARs
so logging these writes would waste a lot of memory.
Maybe ROMs could be supported with the iotlb variant -
not sure, but there seems to be no good reason for virtio
to try to do DMA from ROM. So let's just skip ROM memory.
Suggested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
msix_init() reports errors with error_report(), which is wrong when
it's used in realize(). The same issue was fixed for msi_init() in
commit 1108b2f. In order to make the API change as small as possible,
leave the return value check to later patch.
For some devices(like e1000e, vmxnet3, nvme) who won't fail because of
msix_init's failure, suppress the error report by passing NULL error
object.
Bonus: add comment for msix_init.
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
CC: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>
CC: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
usb_xhci_realize() corrects invalid values of property "intrs"
automatically, but the uncorrected value is passed to msi_init(),
which chokes on invalid values. Delay that until after the
correction.
Resources allocated by usb_xhci_init() are leaked when msi_init()
fails. Fix by calling it after msi_init().
CC: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The missing of 'nvdimm' in the machine type option '-M' means NVDIMM
is disabled. QEMU should refuse to plug any NVDIMM device in this case
and report the misconfiguration.
The behavior of NVDIMM on unsupported platform (HW/FW) is vendor
specific. For some vendors, it's undefined and the platform may do
anything. Thus, I think QEMU is free to choose the implementation.
Aborting QEMU (i.e. refusing to boot) is the easiest one.
Reported-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Message-Id: 20170112110928.GF4621@stefanha-x1.localdomain
Message-Id: 20170111093630.2088-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The Generic Root Port behaves almost the same as the
Intel's IOH device with id 3420, without having
Intel specific attributes.
The device has two purposes:
(1) Can be used on both X86 and ARM machines.
(2) It will allow us to tweak the behaviour
(e.g add vendor-specific PCI capabilities)
- something that obviously cannot be done
on a known device.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Preserve only Intel specific details.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The 'base' PCI Express Root Port includes
the common code to be re-used for all
Root Ports implementations. Most of the code
was taken from the current implementation
of Intel's IOH 3420 Root Port.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
We don't use 1ULL which is wrong during size calculation. Fix it, and
while at it, switch to use cto64() and adds a comments to make it
simpler and easier to be understood.
Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Looks like we didn't mark PCI ROMs as RO allowing
mischief such as guests writing there.
Further, e.g. vhost gets confused trying to allocate
enough space to log writes there. Fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
It's a familiar pattern: some code uses ARRAY_SIZE, then refactoring
changes the argument from an array to a pointer to a dynamically
allocated buffer. Code keeps compiling but any ARRAY_SIZE calls now
return the size of the pointer divided by element size.
Let's add build time checks to ARRAY_SIZE before we allow more
of these in the code-base.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON uses a typedef in order to be safe
to use outside functions, but sometimes it's useful
to have a version that can be used within an expression.
Following what Linux does, introduce QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO
that return zero after checking condition at build time.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
There are theoretical concerns that some compilers might not trigger
build failures on attempts to define an array of size (x ? -1 : 1) where
x is a variable and make it a variable sized array instead. Let rewrite
using a struct with a negative bit field size instead as there are no
dynamic bit field sizes. This is similar to what Linux does.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Some headers use QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON. This causes a problem
if the C file including that header happens to have
QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON at the same line number.
Fix using a widely available extension: __COUNTER__.
If unavailable, provide a stub.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
We are switching BUILD_BUG_ON to verify that it's parameter is a
compile-time constant, and it turns out that some gcc versions
(specifically gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609) are
not smart enough to figure it out for expressions involving local
variables. This is harmless but means that the check is ineffective for
these platforms. To fix, replace the variable with macros.
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
We are switching BUILD_BUG_ON to verify that it's parameter is a
compile-time constant, and it turns out that some gcc versions
(specifically gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609) are
not smart enough to figure it out for expressions involving local
variables. This is harmless but means that the check is ineffective for
these platforms. To fix, replace variables with macros.
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
All users include the trailing ; anyway, let's require that -
it seems cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
ldl_p has a signed return type so assigning it to uint64_t implicitly
sign-extends the value. This results in devices with min_access_size = 8
seeing unexpected values passed to their write handlers.
Example: guest performs a 32-bit write of 0x80000000 to an mmio region
and the handler receives 0xFFFFFFFF80000000 in its value argument.
Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1485440557-10384-1-git-send-email-lprosek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Turn Chardev into Object.
qemu_chr_alloc() is replaced by the qemu_chardev_new() constructor. It
will call qemu_char_open() to open/intialize the chardev with the
ChardevCommon *backend settings.
The CharDriver::create() callback is turned into a ChardevClass::open()
which is called from the newly introduced qemu_chardev_open().
"chardev-gdb" and "chardev-hci" are internal chardev and aren't
creatable directly with -chardev. Use a new internal flag to disable
them. We may want to use TYPE_USER_CREATABLE interface instead, or
perhaps allow -chardev usage.
Although in general we keep typename and macros private, unless the type
is being used by some other file, in this patch, all types and common
helper macros for qemu-char.c are in char.h. This is to help transition
now (some types must be declared early, while some aren't shared) and
when splitting in several units. This is to be improved later.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
vc_chr_write() is more appropriate than _puts() since no newline is
appended, even though it's not used only as a callback.
Keep "qemu_chr_parse" prefix, most chardev parse functions use this
prefix atm.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Instead of registering a vc handler to allocate the Gtk VC Chardev,
overwrite the console.c char driver.
A later patch, when switching to QOM, will register a default console vc
QOM class if none has been registered before.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Set errp to report errors up to the right monitor.
Use error_append_hint() to give hints about parameters on !qmp monitors,
instead of a direct fprintf() call.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Rename the types to follow the name of the chardev kind.
- socket: TCPChardev -> SocketChardev
- udp: NetChardev -> UdpChardev
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pick a uniform chardev type name.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use common allocator for CharDriverState.
Rename the now untouched parent field.
The casts added are temporary, they are replaced with QOM type-safe
macros in a later patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use a single allocation for CharDriverState, this avoids extra
allocations & pointers, and is a step towards more object-oriented
CharDriver.
Gtk console is a bit peculiar, gd_vc_chr_set_echo() used to have a
temporary VirtualConsole to save the echo bit. Instead now, we consider
whether vcd->console is set or not, and restore the echo bit saved in
VCDriverState when calling gd_vc_vte_init().
The casts added are temporary, they are replaced with QOM type-safe
macros in a later patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use a feature flag rather than a structure field for "replay".
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This allows to remove the "is_mux" field from CharDriverState.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This shortens the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This makes the code more declarative, and avoids duplicating the
information on all instances.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Number and kinds of backends is known at compile-time, use a fixed-sized
static array to simplify iterations & lookups.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
No need to allocate & copy fields, let's use static const struct instead.
Add an alias field to the CharDriver structure to cover the cases where
we previously registered a driver twice under two names.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
I am pretty sure that's the word Fabrice Bellard intended to write.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Available since commit db418a0a7e
(October 2011, qemu 1.0)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
test.char.exe fails to link:
qemu-char.o: In function `win_chr_free':
/home/elmarco/src/qemu/qemu-char.c:2149: undefined reference to `qemu_del_polling_cb'
/home/elmarco/src/qemu/qemu-char.c:2151: undefined reference to `qemu_del_polling_cb'
qemu-char.o: In function `win_stdio_thread':
/home/elmarco/src/qemu/qemu-char.c:2568: undefined reference to `qemu_del_wait_object'
qemu-char.o: In function `qemu_chr_open_stdio':
/home/elmarco/src/qemu/qemu-char.c:2661: undefined reference to `qemu_add_wait_object'
/home/elmarco/src/qemu/qemu-char.c:2646: undefined reference to
`qemu_add_wait_object'
...
It needs main-loop.o symbols, among others. Linking with
$(test-block-obj-y) brings what's necessary. We could try to eventually
strip to the minimum if needed.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
commit f57b4b5f moved qemu_iscsi_opts into vl.c. This
made them invisible for qemu-img, qemu-nbd etc.
Fixes: f57b4b5fb1
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Message-Id: <1485262161-18543-1-git-send-email-pl@kamp.de>
[Drop useless #ifdef. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
Message-Id: <1484921496-11257-4-git-send-email-phil@philjordan.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This fixes timekeeping of x86-64 Darwin/OS X/macOS guests when using KVM.
Darwin/OS X/macOS for x86-64 uses the TSC for timekeeping; it normally calibrates this by querying various clock frequency scaling MSRs. Details depend on the exact CPU model detected. The local APIC timer frequency is extracted from (EFI) firmware.
This is problematic in the presence of virtualisation, as the MSRs in question are typically not handled by the hypervisor. VMWare (Fusion) advertises TSC and APIC frequency via a custom 0x40000010 CPUID leaf, in the eax and ebx registers respectively. This is documented at https://lwn.net/Articles/301888/ among other places.
Darwin/OS X/macOS looks for the generic 0x40000000 hypervisor leaf, and if this indicates via eax that leaf 0x40000010 might be available, that is in turn queried for the two frequencies.
This adds a CPU option "vmware-cpuid-freq" to enable the same behaviour when running Qemu with KVM acceleration, if the KVM TSC frequency can be determined, and it is stable. (invtsc or user-specified) The virtualised APIC bus cycle is hardcoded to 1GHz in KVM, so ebx of the CPUID leaf is also hardcoded to this value.
Signed-off-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
Message-Id: <1484921496-11257-2-git-send-email-phil@philjordan.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We can get the maximum number of bytes for a single I/O transfer
from the BLKSECTGET ioctl, but we only perform this for block
devices. scsi-generic devices are represented as character devices,
and so do not issue this today. Update this, so that virtio-scsi
devices using the scsi-generic interface can return the same data.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20170120162527.66075-4-farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 6f6071745b ("raw-posix: Fetch max sectors for host block device")
introduced a routine to call the kernel BLKSECTGET ioctl, which stores the
result back to user space. However, the size of the data returned depends
on the routine handling the ioctl. The (compat_)blkdev_ioctl returns a
short, while sg_ioctl returns an int. Thus, on big-endian systems, we can
find ourselves accidentally shifting the result to a much larger value.
(On s390x, a short is 16 bits while an int is 32 bits.)
Also, the two ioctl handlers return values in different scales (block
returns sectors, while sg returns bytes), so some tweaking of the outputs
is required such that hdev_get_max_transfer_length returns a value in a
consistent set of units.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20170120162527.66075-3-farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When running with debug enabled, the scsi-generic cdb that is
dumped skips byte 0 of the command, which is the opcode. This
makes identifying which command is being issued/completed a
little difficult. Example:
0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00
scsi-generic: scsi_read_data 0x0
scsi-generic: Data ready tag=0x0 len=164
scsi-generic: scsi_read_data 0x0
scsi-generic: Command complete 0x0x10a42c60 tag=0x0 status=0
Improve this by adding a message prior to the loop, similar to
what exists for scsi-disk. Clean up a few other messages to be
more explicit of what is being represented. Example:
scsi-generic: Command: data=0x12 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00
scsi-generic: scsi_read_data tag=0x0
scsi-generic: Data ready tag=0x0 len=164
scsi-generic: scsi_read_data tag=0x0
scsi-generic: Command complete 0x0x10a452d0 tag=0x0 status=0
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20170120162527.66075-2-farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Now that CPUs show up in the help text of "-device ?",
we should group them into an appropriate category.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1484917276-7107-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
nb_cls_shrunk in iscsi_allocmap_update can become -1 if the
request starts and ends within the same cluster. This results
in passing -1 to bitmap_set and bitmap_clear and they don't
handle negative values properly. In the end this leads to data
corruption.
Fixes: e1123a3b40
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Message-Id: <1484579832-18589-1-git-send-email-pl@kamp.de>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The generic edk2 SMM infrastructure prefers
EFI_SMM_CONTROL2_PROTOCOL.Trigger() to inject an SMI on each processor. If
Trigger() only brings the current processor into SMM, then edk2 handles it
in the following ways:
(1) If Trigger() is executed by the BSP (which is guaranteed before
ExitBootServices(), but is not necessarily true at runtime), then:
(a) If edk2 has been configured for "traditional" SMM synchronization,
then the BSP sends directed SMIs to the APs with APIC delivery,
bringing them into SMM individually. Then the BSP runs the SMI
handler / dispatcher.
(b) If edk2 has been configured for "relaxed" SMM synchronization,
then the APs that are not already in SMM are not brought in, and
the BSP runs the SMI handler / dispatcher.
(2) If Trigger() is executed by an AP (which is possible after
ExitBootServices(), and can be forced e.g. by "taskset -c 1
efibootmgr"), then the AP in question brings in the BSP with a
directed SMI, and the BSP runs the SMI handler / dispatcher.
The smaller problem with (1a) and (2) is that the BSP and AP
synchronization is slow. For example, the "taskset -c 1 efibootmgr"
command from (2) can take more than 3 seconds to complete, because
efibootmgr accesses non-volatile UEFI variables intensively.
The larger problem is that QEMU's current behavior diverges from the
behavior usually seen on physical hardware, and that keeps exposing
obscure corner cases, race conditions and other instabilities in edk2,
which generally expects / prefers a software SMI to affect all CPUs at
once.
Therefore introduce the "broadcast SMI" feature that causes QEMU to inject
the SMI on all VCPUs.
While the original posting of this patch
<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg05658.html>
only intended to speed up (2), based on our recent "stress testing" of SMM
this patch actually provides functional improvements.
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170126014416.11211-3-lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
