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The generic edk2 SMM infrastructure prefers
EFI_SMM_CONTROL2_PROTOCOL.Trigger() to inject an SMI on each processor. If
Trigger() only brings the current processor into SMM, then edk2 handles it
in the following ways:
(1) If Trigger() is executed by the BSP (which is guaranteed before
ExitBootServices(), but is not necessarily true at runtime), then:
(a) If edk2 has been configured for "traditional" SMM synchronization,
then the BSP sends directed SMIs to the APs with APIC delivery,
bringing them into SMM individually. Then the BSP runs the SMI
handler / dispatcher.
(b) If edk2 has been configured for "relaxed" SMM synchronization,
then the APs that are not already in SMM are not brought in, and
the BSP runs the SMI handler / dispatcher.
(2) If Trigger() is executed by an AP (which is possible after
ExitBootServices(), and can be forced e.g. by "taskset -c 1
efibootmgr"), then the AP in question brings in the BSP with a
directed SMI, and the BSP runs the SMI handler / dispatcher.
The smaller problem with (1a) and (2) is that the BSP and AP
synchronization is slow. For example, the "taskset -c 1 efibootmgr"
command from (2) can take more than 3 seconds to complete, because
efibootmgr accesses non-volatile UEFI variables intensively.
The larger problem is that QEMU's current behavior diverges from the
behavior usually seen on physical hardware, and that keeps exposing
obscure corner cases, race conditions and other instabilities in edk2,
which generally expects / prefers a software SMI to affect all CPUs at
once.
Therefore introduce the "broadcast SMI" feature that causes QEMU to inject
the SMI on all VCPUs.
While the original posting of this patch
<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg05658.html>
only intended to speed up (2), based on our recent "stress testing" of SMM
this patch actually provides functional improvements.
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170126014416.11211-3-lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
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and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
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different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
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Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
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of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
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==================
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=============
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is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
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For additional information on bug reporting consult:
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=======
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