[SeaBIOS] [RFC] [SEABIOS] Take in account hotplugged cpus on reboot

Igor Mammedov imammedo at redhat.com
Thu Mar 8 17:54:21 CET 2012


Initial count of active cpus is communicated to bios from qemu via
CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT io port. However if cpus are hotplugged after
boot and then guest is rebooted without taking down qemu then
bios might be stuck at smp_probe
   while (cmos_smp_count + 1 != readl(&CountCPUs))
      yield();
where cmos_smp_count + 1 will be less that CountCPUs due to
additional hotplugged cpus.

One way to fix bug is to take in account hotplugged cpus and count
online cpus in cpu status bitmap that qemu provides at 0xaf00 and
bios uses for ACPI cpu hotplug in acpi-dsdt.dsl.

Alternative ways to fix issue is disscussed on following thread:
  http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2011-August/002147.html
without any conclusion

Rationale why counting cpus in cpu_sts bitmap at 0xaf00 might be
better that updating CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT in qemu.
  feeble one: we already relying on cpu_sts at 0xaf00 for ACPI cpu
       hotplug machinery and it seems that there is no standard way
       to pass this info (so we are now using "board extension").
  2nd: another possible use for cpu_sts bitmap is when cpus are able
       to be (hot)plugged in nonconsecutive order, MADT + CPON
       package should be build taking in account info about which
       cpus are (un)plugged.


However there is compatibility question: What to do with qemu versions
that doen't have cpu_hotplug?

---
 src/smp.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/smp.c b/src/smp.c
index 8c077a1..f24d6fa 100644
--- a/src/smp.c
+++ b/src/smp.c
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 
 #define APIC_ENABLED 0x0100
 
+#define ACPI_CPU_STATUS_MAP 0xaf00
+#define ACPI_CPU_STATUS_MAP_SZ 32
+
 struct { u32 ecx, eax, edx; } smp_mtrr[32] VAR16VISIBLE;
 u32 smp_mtrr_count VAR16VISIBLE;
 
@@ -115,6 +118,21 @@ smp_probe(void)
         msleep(10);
     } else {
         u8 cmos_smp_count = inb_cmos(CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT);
+        u8 i = 0, acpi_cpu_online_count = 0;
+
+        /* count plugged in cpus in acpi PRST bitmap */
+        while (i < ACPI_CPU_STATUS_MAP_SZ) {
+            u8 j = 0, status = inb(ACPI_CPU_STATUS_MAP + (i++));
+            while (j < 8)
+                if ((status >> j++) & 1)
+                    ++acpi_cpu_online_count;
+        }
+        /* if one or several cpus were hotplugged then on reboot we should
+         * take them into account and wait for them too*/
+        if (cmos_smp_count < --acpi_cpu_online_count)
+            cmos_smp_count = acpi_cpu_online_count;
+
+        dprintf(1, "acpi_cpu_online_count: %d\n", acpi_cpu_online_count);
         while (cmos_smp_count + 1 != readl(&CountCPUs))
             yield();
     }
-- 
1.7.7.6




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