On 02/04/2014 01:49 AM, Robert Urban wrote:
> On 02/03/2014 10:12 PM, Mike Larkin wrote:
>> I'd run with acpi debug enabled, try to see if we are dropping an event.
> On a 5.4 test system I compiled a new generic MP kernel with "option 
> ACPI_DEBUG"
> and booted it. I set up a serial console.
>
> During boot there is a lot a ACPI debug output. I can make it available if
> anyone would like to see it.
>
> I then ran "virsh shutdown guest". The guest froze without writing a single
> character to the console.

I found this description in a RedHat bugzilla entry:

> Gleb Natapov 2009-12-23 10:37:44 EST
>
> I posted patch to provide correct PCI irq routing info in mptable to kvm
> mailing list. It works for all devices except for SCI interrupt. BIOS
> programs SCI interrupt to be 9 as spec requires, but OpenBSD thinks that
> it is smarter and moves it to interrupts 10. Qemu will still send it on
> vector 9 and OpenBSD will enter the same infinity recursion. This can
> be triggered by issuing system_powerdown on qemu monitor.

the entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508801#c34

It sounds plausible.

There is a discussion about this on the KVM list:

    http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51563.html

I would be grateful if someone could have a look at this. I can make a OpenBSD
VM guest available.

Rob Urban

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