From: Radim Krčmář Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 19:57:32 +0000 (+0200) Subject: pc: acpi: fix pvpanic for buggy guests X-Git-Tag: qemu-xen-4.7.0-rc1~283^2~33 X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2332333c;p=qemu-xen.git pc: acpi: fix pvpanic for buggy guests In the old times, we always had pvpanic in ACPI and a _STA method told the guest not to use it. Automatic generation dropped the _STA method as the specification says that missing _STA means enabled and working. Some guests (Linux) had buggy drivers and this change made them unable to utilize pvpanic. A Linux patch is posted as well, but I think it's worth to make pvpanic useable on old guests at the price of three lines and few bytes of SSDT. The old _STA method was Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized) { Store (PEST, Local0) If (LEqual (Local0, Zero)) { Return (Zero) } Else { Return (0x0F) }} Igor pointed out that we don't need to use a method to return a constant and that 0xB (don't show in UI) is the common definition now. Also, the device used to be PEVT. (PEVT as in "panic event"?) Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c index 3d19de68fc..283d02e7a7 100644 --- a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c +++ b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ build_ssdt(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, if (misc->pvpanic_port) { scope = aml_scope("\\_SB.PCI0.ISA"); - dev = aml_device("PEVR"); + dev = aml_device("PEVT"); aml_append(dev, aml_name_decl("_HID", aml_string("QEMU0001"))); crs = aml_resource_template(); @@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ build_ssdt(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, aml_append(field, aml_named_field("PEPT", 8)); aml_append(dev, field); + /* device present, functioning, decoding, not shown in UI */ + aml_append(dev, aml_name_decl("_STA", aml_int(0xB))); + method = aml_method("RDPT", 0); aml_append(method, aml_store(aml_name("PEPT"), aml_local(0))); aml_append(method, aml_return(aml_local(0)));