Robi Yagel wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for the patch, Nice to hear that there is interest in this. :)
> if you can, please advice on the proper place to add > periodic generation of SMI/NMIs in order to simulate, e.g., a watchdog (and > the > needed parameters - except for CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI...) Yeah, I also thought about NMI watchdog emulation while adding CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI, but it took a bit more effort to understand what pieces are missing. It should be a fairly useful feature for testing NMI interaction with new kernel code and maybe even catching nasty races that way (whenever you happen to work on such things, like I do ;) ). Also, we need NMI delivery for custom hardware emulation here. So there might be broader use for CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI in the future. However, find some experimental watchdog-enabler patch below. It allows to use nmi_watchdog=1 (i.e. the IO-APIC variant) with Linux, without any visible regression of normal IRQ delivery (but I only lightly tested it on top of the kvm-userspace qemu, that's why "experimental"). A performance counter based NMI watchdog is surely doable as well, but it takes a bit more effort. You would have to decide first what perf-counter features should be emulated and how cleanly, even if you only want to (mis-)use it for watchdog services. I'm lacking time for this right now. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux --- hw/apic.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- hw/pc.c | 2 +- hw/pc.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: b/hw/apic.c =================================================================== --- a/hw/apic.c +++ b/hw/apic.c @@ -166,6 +166,37 @@ static inline void reset_bit(uint32_t *t tab[i] &= ~mask; } +void apic_local_deliver(CPUState *env, int vector) +{ + APICState *s = env->apic_state; + uint32_t lvt = s->lvt[vector]; + int trigger_mode; + + if (lvt & APIC_LVT_MASKED) + return; + + switch ((lvt >> 8) & 7) { + case APIC_DM_SMI: + cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_SMI); + break; + + case APIC_DM_NMI: + cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI); + break; + + case APIC_DM_EXTINT: + cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_HARD); + break; + + case APIC_DM_FIXED: + trigger_mode = APIC_TRIGGER_EDGE; + if ((vector == APIC_LVT_LINT0 || vector == APIC_LVT_LINT1) && + (lvt & APIC_LVT_LEVEL_TRIGGER)) + trigger_mode = APIC_TRIGGER_LEVEL; + apic_set_irq(s, lvt & 0xff, trigger_mode); + } +} + #define foreach_apic(apic, deliver_bitmask, code) \ {\ int __i, __j, __mask;\ @@ -504,8 +535,7 @@ int apic_accept_pic_intr(CPUState *env) if (s->id == 0 && ((s->apicbase & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE) == 0 || - ((lvt0 & APIC_LVT_MASKED) == 0 && - ((lvt0 >> 8) & 0x7) == APIC_DM_EXTINT))) + (lvt0 & APIC_LVT_MASKED) == 0)) return 1; return 0; @@ -556,9 +586,7 @@ static void apic_timer(void *opaque) { APICState *s = opaque; - if (!(s->lvt[APIC_LVT_TIMER] & APIC_LVT_MASKED)) { - apic_set_irq(s, s->lvt[APIC_LVT_TIMER] & 0xff, APIC_TRIGGER_EDGE); - } + apic_local_deliver(s->cpu_env, APIC_LVT_TIMER); apic_timer_update(s, s->next_time); } Index: b/hw/pc.c =================================================================== --- a/hw/pc.c +++ b/hw/pc.c @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static void pic_irq_request(void *opaque { CPUState *env = opaque; if (level && apic_accept_pic_intr(env)) - cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_HARD); + apic_local_deliver(env, APIC_LINT0); } /* PC cmos mappings */ Index: b/hw/pc.h =================================================================== --- a/hw/pc.h +++ b/hw/pc.h @@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ void irq_info(void); /* APIC */ typedef struct IOAPICState IOAPICState; +#define APIC_LINT0 3 + int apic_init(CPUState *env); int apic_accept_pic_intr(CPUState *env); +void apic_local_deliver(CPUState *env, int vector); int apic_get_interrupt(CPUState *env); IOAPICState *ioapic_init(void); void ioapic_set_irq(void *opaque, int vector, int level);