Re: [Linaro-uefi] UEFI on KVM fails to start on juno on cortex-a57 cluster

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On 25 March 2015 at 21:32, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25 March 2015 at 17:14, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 25 March 2015 at 17:14, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 25 March 2015 at 07:59, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It appears on juno, I can start kvm with UEFI only on cortex-a53 cores:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> taskset -c 0 qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu host -M virt -bios
>>>> QEMU_EFI.fd -enable-kvm -nographic
>>>> -> works:
>>>> UEFI Interactive Shell v2.0
>>>> taskset -c 1 qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu host -M virt -bios
>>>> QEMU_EFI.fd -enable-kvm -nographic
>>>> -> hangs at cpu spinning 100%
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can reproduce the hang, both with your UEFI binary and my own release build.
>>> The debug build works fine, unfortunately...
>>>
>>
>> Tianocore built from master as of today, that is.
>>
>
> OK, it appears that we were missing some cache maintenance. It is not
> obvious how that should affect A57 only, but with these patches, I can
> now reliably run the release version on my Seattle A57

> https://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/uefi-next.git/shortlog/refs/heads/qemu-xen-cache-maintenance

Thanks. Do you know when there would be a new build on releases or snapshots?

Riku

>>>> Qemu and kernel are latest mainline, kvm from last months Ĺinaro
>>>> release. According to cpuinfo cores 0 and 3-5 are a53 and 1-2 are a57.
>>>> Details:
>>>>
>>>> # wget http://releases.linaro.org/15.01/components/kernel/uefi-linaro/release/qemu64-intelbds/QEMU_EFI.fd
>>>> uname -a
>>>> # Linux linaro-nano 4.0.0-rc5-linaro-juno #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 24
>>>> 10:46:53 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
>>>> # qemu-system-aarch64 --version
>>>> QEMU emulator version 2.2.91 (Debian 2.3.0~rc1-185linaro+utopic),
>>>> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>>>> # grep -E '(processor|part)' /proc/cpuinfo
>>>> processor       : 0
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd03
>>>> processor       : 1
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd07
>>>> processor       : 2
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd07
>>>> processor       : 3
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd03
>>>> processor       : 4
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd03
>>>> processor       : 5
>>>> CPU part        : 0xd03
>>>>
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