From: Wei Huang <w...@redhat.com> Current QEMU will stall guest VM booting under ACPI mode when vcpu count is >= 12. Analyzing the booting log, it turns out that DSDT table can't be loaded correctly due to "Invalid character(s) in name (0x62303043), repaired: [C00*]". This is because existing QEMU uses a lower case AML ID for CPU devices (e.g. C000, C001, ..., C00a, C00b). The ACPI code inside guest VM detects this lower case character as an invalid character (see acpi_ut_valid_acpi_char() in drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c file) and converts it to "*". This causes duplicated IDs (i.e. "C00a" ==>"C00*" and "C00b" ==> "C00*"). So ACPI refuses to load the table.
This patch fixes the problem by changing the format with a upper case character. It matches the CPU ID formats used in other parts of QEMU code. Reported-by: Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <w...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.z...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com> Message-id: 1472852809-23042-1-git-send-email-...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c index 28fc59c..295ec86 100644 --- a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c +++ b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void acpi_dsdt_add_cpus(Aml *scope, int smp_cpus) uint16_t i; for (i = 0; i < smp_cpus; i++) { - Aml *dev = aml_device("C%03x", i); + Aml *dev = aml_device("C%.03X", i); aml_append(dev, aml_name_decl("_HID", aml_string("ACPI0007"))); aml_append(dev, aml_name_decl("_UID", aml_int(i))); aml_append(scope, dev); -- 2.7.4