Re: [PATCH 5/8] ACPI: add processor driver for Xen virtual CPUs.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-10 17:21:55
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+ if (pr->id == -1) {
+ int device_declaration;
+ int apic_id = -1;
+
+ if (!strcmp(acpi_device_hid(device), ACPI_PROCESSOR_OBJECT_HID))
+ device_declaration = 0;
+ else
+ device_declaration = 1;
+
+ apic_id = acpi_get_cpuid(pr->handle,
+ device_declaration, pr->acpi_id);
+ if (apic_id == -1) {
+ /* Processor is not present in MADT table */
So I was struggling to find an easy way to make the cases below (where
VCPU != physical CPU) work with using the driver that iterates over the
'processor' and was mystified to why it would not work, even with this
patchset. Found out that the acpi_get_cpuid does this:
201 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
202 for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
203 if (cpu_physical_id(i) == apic_id)
204 return i;
205 }
and since not-online vCPUs (so dom0_max_vcpus) are not in the "possible"
bitmask, we never get to check line 203 and end up returning -1 for
offline/not-present/not-possible vCPUs.
Which means that we end up here:+ return 0; + } +
instead of going through the pr->id = 0. By the end of this, the information that the hypervisor gets is actually limited to the amount of CPUs that we specified in dom0_max_vcpus=
+ /* + * It's possible to have pr->id as '-1' even when it's actually + * present in MADT table, e.g. due to limiting dom0 max vcpus + * less than physical present number. In such case we still want + * to parse ACPI processor object information, so mimic the + * pr->id to CPU-0. This should be safe because we only care + * about raw ACPI information, which only relies on pr->acpi_id. + * For other information relying on pr->id and gathered through + * SMP function call, it's safe to let them run on CPU-0 since + * underlying Xen will collect them. Only a valid pr->id can + * make later invocations forward progress. + */ + pr->id = 0; + }