Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/ppc/spapr: Halt CPU when powering off via RTAS call

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:23:19PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The LoPAPR specification defines the following for the RTAS
> power-off call: "On successful operation, does not return".
> However, the implementation in QEMU currently returns and runs
> the guest CPU again for some more cycles. This caused some
> trouble with the new ppc implementation of the kvm-unit-tests
> recently. So let's make sure that the QEMU implementation
> follows the spec, thus stop the CPU to make sure that the
> RTAS call does not return to the guest anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Tested-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>

(using the new, shiny kvm-unit-tests :-)

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> index 07ad672..b7c5ebd 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void rtas_power_off(PowerPCCPU *cpu, 
> sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>          return;
>      }
>      qemu_system_shutdown_request();
> +    cpu_stop_current();
>      rtas_st(rets, 0, RTAS_OUT_SUCCESS);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
>