Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] support piix PAM registers in KVM

[Jason Krieg]

On 09/21/2010 02:31 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Without this BIOS fails to remap 0xf0000 memory from ROM to RAM so writes
> to F-segment modify ROM content instead of memory copy. Since QEMU does
> not reloads ROMs during reset on next boot modified copy of BIOS is used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov
> diff --git a/hw/piix_pci.c b/hw/piix_pci.c
> index 933ad86..0bf435d 100644
> --- a/hw/piix_pci.c
> +++ b/hw/piix_pci.c
> @@ -99,10 +99,6 @@ static void i440fx_update_memory_mappings(PCII440FXState *d)
>       int i, r;
>       uint32_t smram, addr;
> if (kvm_enabled()) {
>    /* FIXME: Support remappings and protection changes. */
>    return;
> }
>  update_pam(d, 0xf0000, 0x100000, (d->dev.config[I440FX_PAM]>>  4)&  3);
>  for(i = 0; i<  12; i++) {
>      r = (d->dev.config[(i>>  1) + (I440FX_PAM + 1)]>>  ((i&  1) * 4))&  3;

Hi,

While testing migration from old to new kvm ( 0.12.5 to 0.14.x ) and 
after fixing
some other problems mainly version_id probs in some of the 
VMStateDescriptions
everything was working fine until I tried to migrate Windows guests they 
would crash
after running some time. Linux guests are running stable.

So I decided to do a git bisect to identify the according commit.
Reverting this commit fixes this problem with Windows guests.

What consequences might it have not updating these memory mappings ?

Does this commit need a specific seabios version, we have seabios 0.6.0 
with qemu-kvm 0.12.5
and seabios 0.6.1.2 with qemu-kvm 0.14.1 ?

Maybe instead of reverting this commit one could check the seabios 
version in this method
and only do an update of these piix PAM registers if running with a 
newer seabios version ?

Regards,
Jason