On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 04:39:18PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> The ACPI Timer isn't present in a PVH guest, but local APIC works on
> both PVH and HVM.
> 
> Note that the use of SecPeiDxeTimerLibCpu might be an issue with a
> driver of type DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER. I've attempted to find out which of
> the DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER uses the TimerLib at runtime. I've done that by
> replacing the TimerLib evaluation in
> [LibraryClasses.common.DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER] by a different one and
> checking every module that uses it (with the --report-file=report
> build option).
> 
> ResetSystemRuntimeDxe is calling the TimerLib API at runtime to do the
> operation "EfiResetCold", so this may never complete if the OS have
> disabled the Local APIC Timer.
> 
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     v4:
>     - reworded the first sentence, use "not present" instead of "don't work".

Thanks, I'm afraid I cannot comment on the change itself, but the
comment message is accurate now :).

Roger.

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