On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:12:43PM -0000, dann frazier wrote:
> On ARM, accelerated guests have the host interrupt controller somewhat
> "passed through". I say that while vigorously waving my hands because I
> don't recall the details well - but I do know that we needed to teach
> the entire stack (host kernel -> QEMU -> edk2) about GICv3 and that was
> new in the xenial release. AIUI, the existing hosts in ScalingStack
> would've been X-Gene w/ older GICv2m controllers. I suspect the root
> cause of these issues lie somewhere in the GICv3 support in QEMU and/or
> edk2 - see bug 1675522 for a similar report. I'd definitely suggest
> upgrading to >= bionic if possible. Or, if not, maybe consider enabling
> the cloud archive to get a newer virt stack. If neither is possible, we
> could also of course try and bisect down the fixes for the xenial stack
> and try and SRU them back - but that will certainly take some time.
> 

Thanks for the analysis and for helping to look at this, it's really 
appreciated.

I suspect getting Scalingstack dist-upgraded to a newer release will be 
a difficult task... upgrading the virt stack alone *may* be possible, we 
can check that (the cloud archive doesn't contain edk2 though). It's 
also running Launchpad buildds though. I would expect reluctance to do 
this from their side due to the risks and, annoying as it is, think we 
should plan on identifying & doing the backports. Sorry :(

I'll file a ticket with IS for their input...

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  [VMs on] arm64 eMAG system often failing to reboot with "IRQ Exception
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