David Gibson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:42:58PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: >> This version has one small fix in patch 7, and adds Philippe's Reviewed-bys. >> >> Applies cleanly on dgibson/ppc-for-5.2. >> >> Original cover letter below, followed by changelog: >> >> >> The ARM code has a start-powered-off property in ARMCPU, which is a >> subclass of CPUState. This property causes arm_cpu_reset() to set >> CPUState::halted to 1, signalling that the CPU should start in a halted >> state. Other architectures also have code which aim to achieve the same >> effect, but without using a property. >> >> The ppc/spapr version has a bug where QEMU does a KVM_RUN on the vcpu >> before cs->halted is set to 1, causing the vcpu to run while it's still in >> an unitialized state (more details in patch 3). >> >> Peter Maydell mentioned the ARM start-powered-off property and >> Eduardo Habkost suggested making it generic, so this patch series does >> that, for all cases which I was able to find via grep in the code. >> >> The only problem is that I was only able to test these changes on a ppc64le >> pseries KVM guest, so except for patches 2 and 3, all others are only >> build-tested. Also, my grasp of QOM lifecycle is basically non-existant so >> please be aware of that when reviewing this series. >> >> The last patch may be wrong, as pointed out by Eduardo, so I marked it as >> RFC. It may make sense to drop it. > > Applied to ppc-for-5.2. Great news. Thanks! -- Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center
