Thanks Ersek & Lin,

I will try to re-produce and fix it as soon as possible.

Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Ching-Pang Lin [mailto:g...@suse.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:06 PM
To: Laszlo Ersek
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fan, Jeff
Subject: Re: [edk2] SVN r14885 breaks OVMF

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:46:08AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 11/26/13 07:44, Gary Ching-Pang Lin wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 06:21:21AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> as soon as Timer.efi is installed and the first timer interrupt is 
> >> delivered, OVMF hangs with the VCPU spinning at 100%.
> >>
> >> I can see that SVN r14887 is the commit that directly switches the 
> >> libraries that OvmfPkg uses.
> >>
> >> However, at that point "MdeModulePkg/Library/CpuExceptionHandlerLibNull"
> >> (or other OvmfPkg dependencies) are already broken. Because if I 
> >> revert just r14887, then the busy loop related to the timer 
> >> interrupt is replaced by a reboot, at the same spot -- after 
> >> Timer.efi is loaded and the first interrupt is delivered. Different 
> >> symptom (infinite reboot loop), unusable just the same.
> >>
> >> I have to revert r14885 too, to get it working again.
> >>
> > I am using r14890 and no system hang happened.
> > My system: openSUSE 12.3 + kernel 3.12.0, qemu 1.6.0
> > CPU: Intel Core2 Duo P8600
> 
> Can you please try a few different guest RAM sizes?
> 
> For me it works with 2056 MB, but if I go just 1 MB higher (to 2057 
> MB), then I witness the hang after Timer.efi is loaded.
> 
I got the same result. Any RAM size above 2056MB hanged the OVMF, and the log 
showed it stuck after Timer.efi.

Gary Lin

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