Re: [kvm-devel] [BUG] Oops with KVM-27

[Avi Kivity]

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> With GOOD_APIC apic_read_around is a nop, while apic_write_around is a
> normal write. With !GOOD_APIC apic_write_around writes to the APIC reg
> using xchg. With !GOOD_APIC and this patch:
>
> --- include/asm-i386/apic.h~	2007-04-26 05:08:32.000000000 +0200
> +++ include/asm-i386/apic.h	2007-06-13 22:35:00.000000000 +0200
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
>  static __inline fastcall void native_apic_write_atomic(unsigned long reg,
>  						       unsigned long v)
>  {
> -	xchg((volatile unsigned long *)(APIC_BASE+reg), v);
> +//	xchg((volatile unsigned long *)(APIC_BASE+reg), v);
> +	*((volatile unsigned long *)(APIC_BASE+reg)) = v;
>  }
>  
>  static __inline fastcall unsigned long native_apic_read(unsigned long reg)
>
> The kernel boots fine. 
>   

Looking at the xchg emulation code, it seems fine, but clearly it 
isn't.  Can you add logging to the kernel apic driver and to the qemu 
device emulation (qemu/hw/apic.c, apic_mem_readl()/apic_mem_writel()) 
and compare the results?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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