[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/2] fw/acpi: Build MADT the way commodity BIOSes do

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Fri Jan 27 15:57:19 CET 2017


On 01/27/17 15:27, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 02:18:39AM +0100, Filippo Sironi wrote:
>> When running Linux on an Intel machine with a commodity BIOS, CPUs are
>> numbered starting from 0 and the first half refers to the first logical
>> CPU on each core while the second half refers to the second logical CPU
>> on each core.
>> As an example, on machine with 2 sockets, 4 cores per socket, and 2
>> logical CPUs per core, CPUs would be numbered:
>>
>> *  0  1  2  3 - first logical CPU on each core of socket 0
>> *  4  5  6  7 - first logical CPU on each core of socket 1
>> *  8  9 10 11 - second logical CPU on each core of socket 0
>> * 12 13 14 15 - second logical CPU on each core of socket 1
>>
>> With seabios (prior to this patch), CPU 0 would be the first logical CPU
>> on core 0 of socket 0, CPU 1 would be the second logical CPU on core 0
>> of socket 0, and so on.
>> This is due to the fact that processor_id and local_apic_id are assigned
>> with the same value when building MADT.
>>
>> Exhaust the most-significant 7 bits of the 8-bit APIC ID and then come
>> back to the least-significant bit when assigning local_apic_id, since
>> the least-significant bit identifies the second logical CPU on a core.
>>
>> If HTT isn't available, keep the previous behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi at amazon.de>
>> ---
>>  src/fw/acpi.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/fw/acpi.c b/src/fw/acpi.c
>> index 8bc2ca6..864c247 100644
>> --- a/src/fw/acpi.c
>> +++ b/src/fw/acpi.c
> 
> The acpi.c code in seabios is deprecated.  With all recent version of
> qemu/kvm the acpi tables are obtained from qemu.  So, if there is a
> desired change to the tables then a patch should be made for qemu.

QEMU constructs minimal / condensed APIC IDs so that they precisely
correspond to the socket / core / thread hierarchy requested on the
command line. If I remember correctly, the algorithm was implemented
directly from Intel's MP spec. If the APIC IDs in the guest don't look
as desired, I think the -smp option might have to be tweaked.

I also seem to recall that this spec-adherent behavior could be machine
type dependent (i.e., unavailable before a specific machine type). The
machtypes not conforming to it should be ancient IMO.

CC'ing Eduardo and Igor.

Thanks
Laszlo




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