Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs
Date	2015-10-13 15:10 +0200
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On 13/10/2015 12:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> While SeaBIOS only uses synchronous SMI delivery through port 0xb2,
> OVMF also uses APIC delivery, and it is buggy.
> 
> This is enough to run OVMF with SMM enabled and multiple processors,
> up to a UEFI shell, but it literally takes minutes to get there.
> However, the same behavior is visible with KVM disabled, so it may
> be a firmware bug instead.

Which it was. :)  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/2899

Paolo
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[PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: clean up kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 12:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: clean up kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 17:50 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 12:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: fix deliver of SMIs to halted VCPUs Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-13 15:10 +0200

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