Hi Gavin,
> From: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 1:29 AM
> To: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org;
> qemu-arm@nongnu.org; mst@redhat.com
>
> Hi Salil,
>
> On 8/8/24 9:48 AM, Salil Mehta wrote:
> >> On 8/7/24 11:27 PM, Salil Mehta wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Let me figure out this. Have you also included the below patch along
> >> > with the architecture agnostic patch-set accepted in this Qemu cycle?
> >> >
> >> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240801142322.3948866-3-
> peter.maydell@lin
> >> > aro.org/
> >> >
> >>
> >> There are no vCPU fd to be parked and unparked when the core dump
> >> happenes. I tried it, but didn't help. I added more debugging messages
> and
> >> the core dump is triggered in the following path. It seems 'cpu-
> >> >sve_vq.map' isn't correct since it's populated in CPU realization path,
> and
> >> those non-cold-booted CPUs aren't realized in the booting stage.
> >
> >
> > Ah, I've to fix the SVE support. I'm already working on it and will be
> > part of the RFC V4.
> >
> > Have you tried booting VM by disabling the SVE support?
> >
>
> I'm able to boot the guest after SVE is disabled by clearing the
> corresponding bits in ID_AA64PFR0, as below.
>
> static bool kvm_arm_get_host_cpu_features(ARMHostCPUFeatures *ahcf)
> {
> :
>
> /*
> * SVE is explicitly disabled. Otherwise, the non-cold-booted
> * CPUs can't be initialized in the vCPU hotplug scenario.
> */
> err = read_sys_reg64(fdarray[2], &ahcf->isar.id_aa64pfr0,
> ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 0, 0, 4, 0));
> ahcf->isar.id_aa64pfr0 &= ~R_ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_MASK; }
>
> However, I'm unable to hot-add a vCPU and haven't get a chance to look at
> it closely.
>
> (qemu) device_add host-arm-cpu,id=cpu,socket-id=1
> (qemu) [ 258.901027] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory
> at virtual address ffff800080fa7190 [ 258.901686] Mem abort info:
> [ 258.901889] ESR = 0x000000009600004e
> [ 258.902160] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [ 258.902543] SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [ 258.902763] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [ 258.902991] FSC = 0x0e: level 2 permission fault
> [ 258.903338] Data abort info:
> [ 258.903547] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004e, ISS2 = 0x00000000
> [ 258.903943] CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
> [ 258.904304] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
> [ 258.904687] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs,
> pgdp=00000000b8e24000 [ 258.905258] [ffff800080fa7190]
> pgd=10000000b95b0003, p4d=10000000b95b0003, pud=10000000b95b1003,
> pmd=00600000b8c00781 [ 258.906026] Internal error: Oops:
> 000000009600004e [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 258.906474] Modules linked in:
> [ 258.906705] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 6.11.0-
> rc2-gavin-gb446a2dae984 #7 [ 258.907338] Hardware name: QEMU KVM
> Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-stable202402-prebuilt.qemu.org 02/14/2024 [
> 258.908009] Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn [
> 258.908401] pstate: 63400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS
> BTYPE=--) [ 258.908899] pc : register_cpu+0x140/0x290 [ 258.909195] lr :
> register_cpu+0x128/0x290 [ 258.909487] sp : ffff8000817fba10 [ 258.909727]
> x29: ffff8000817fba10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0000011f9098 [
> 258.910246] x26: ffff80008167b1b0 x25: 0000000000000001 x24:
> ffff80008153dad0 [ 258.910762] x23: 0000000000000001 x22:
> ffff0000ff7de210 x21: ffff8000811b9a00 [ 258.911279] x20:
> 0000000000000000 x19: ffff800080fa7190 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 258.911798]
> x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff000005a46a1c [
> 258.912326] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: ffff000005a4632b x12: 0000000000000000
> [ 258.912854] x11: 0000000000000040 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 :
> ffff8000808a6cd4 [ 258.913382] x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
> x6 : fefefefefefefeff [ 258.913906] x5 : ffff0000053fab40 x4 :
> ffff0000053fa920 x3 : ffff0000053fabb0 [ 258.914439] x2 : ffff000000de1100
> x1 : ffff800080fa7190 x0 : 0000000000000002 [ 258.914968] Call trace:
> [ 258.915154] register_cpu+0x140/0x290 [ 258.915429]
> arch_register_cpu+0x84/0xd8 [ 258.915726]
> acpi_processor_add+0x480/0x5b0 [ 258.916042]
> acpi_bus_attach+0x1c4/0x300 [ 258.916334]
> acpi_dev_for_one_check+0x3c/0x50 [ 258.916689]
> device_for_each_child+0x68/0xc8 [ 258.917012]
> acpi_dev_for_each_child+0x48/0x80 [ 258.917344]
> acpi_bus_attach+0x84/0x300 [ 258.917629] acpi_bus_scan+0x74/0x220 [
> 258.917902] acpi_scan_rescan_bus+0x54/0x88 [ 258.918211]
> acpi_device_hotplug+0x208/0x478 [ 258.918529]
> acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x2c/0x50 [ 258.918839]
> process_one_work+0x15c/0x3c0 [ 258.919139]
> worker_thread+0x2ec/0x400 [ 258.919417] kthread+0x120/0x130 [
> 258.919658] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 258.919924] Code: 91064021
> 9ad72000 8b130c33 d503201f (f820327f) [ 258.920373] ---[ end trace
> 0000000000000000 ]---
Yes, this crash. Thanks for confirming!
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>
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