Re: [Xen-devel] Possible bug with pass-through hot-plug?

[Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:00:10AM +0200, Tom Rotenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing the pass-through code, and trying to hot-plug & hot-remove
> a PCI device which is in PT, and i think there is a bug in the
> hot-plug code.
> If i put the pass-through device on a "low" slot number, such as:
> 00:02.0 - then the hot-plug & hot-remove works, but if i use a "high"
> slot number, such as: 00:1b.0, the hot-plug & hot-remove doesn't work.
> 
> >From looking at the qemu logs, it looks like the gpe event is "stuck"
> and isn't finishing. I suspect, that it's because the gpe eventrelated
> procedure in the DSDT, is level triggered (_L03), and thus, if the OS
> doesn't handle it fast enough, it keeps getting the interrupt, and is
> in kind of  "gpe storm" (that's why a "low" slot number, is working,
> because it has less lines of the _L03 function in the DSDT to
> evaluate).
> 
> Does anyone knows something about it? knows how to fix it?

Hi Tom,

Silly question, but do you have an up to date version of hvmbios?


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