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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] mwait_idle: Broadwell support



On 2014/10/16 22:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 16.10.14 at 14:54, <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did you guys validate this in real machine? Or any potential side affect?

When I do IGD GFX passthrough with qemu-xen-traditional, I found in the
boot phase of VM, the target will reboot. After I revert this everything
is fine.

Please be more precise. What is "target" here? Host? Guest?

The real target is BDW based on stepping E. When I use qemu-xen-traditional to validate IGD passthrough like this,

gfx_passthru=1
pci=["00:02.0", "00:14.0"]

Here the device at "00:02.0" is IGD device, another is USB controller.

And we should pass 'no-sharept' to disable shared EPT table since you know there is a well-know RMRR problem I'm trying to fix.

During the Windows7 guest VM boot phase, the physical machine reboot directly.

Also, reporting issues just verbally (i.e. without any logs or other
actual technical information) rarely makes a lot of sense.

As I said above the machine reboot directly. I can't see any output.


Note I don't add anything into codes. Here I just build Xen unstable 4.5
to use qemu-xen-traditional. And additionally, my BDW is based on
stepping E, and guest is WindXP.

Any other technical information you guys want to know?


But the change is only about C-state handling for a particular
CPU model. There's really nothing being added that doesn't
already work fine elsewhere. I.e. this patch being the apparent
culprit of a problem you see makes it relatively likely that your
hardware is having some issue.

Yes I also suspect this point but I tried two machine, I still can see the same problem. Maybe this is related to CPU stepping, BIOS or some errata we may ignore previously. So I just post this to ask if anybody know this in detail.

Thanks
Tiejun

Jan



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