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authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-02 11:36:53 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-07 17:06:35 +0000
commit6a2bdae1c418374aee9b53abfc03cb506647c94e (patch)
treec85c764acec85cdcbe86db45a62c411fd68e6054
parent39fcca60f64bc6afc57943881bec5641820d3d7d (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-6a2bdae1c418374aee9b53abfc03cb506647c94e.tar.gz
runqemu: Add workaround for APIC hang on pre 4.15 kernels on qemux86
On pre 4.15 host kernels, an APIC window emulation bug can cause qemu to hang. On 64 bit we can use the x2apic, for 32 bit, we just have to disable the other timer sources and rely on kvm-clock. [YOCTO #12301] Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 82e67b82ea8e12aa0b7b9db1d84fec0436dec71b) Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/runqemu5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index f0ddeea1bf..9b6d330f1f 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -482,6 +482,11 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
if os.access(dev_kvm, os.W_OK|os.R_OK):
self.qemu_opt_script += ' -enable-kvm'
+ if self.get('MACHINE') == "qemux86":
+ # Workaround for broken APIC window on pre 4.15 host kernels which causes boot hangs
+ # See YOCTO #12301
+ # On 64 bit we use x2apic
+ self.kernel_cmdline_script += " clocksource=kvm-clock hpet=disable noapic nolapic"
else:
logger.error("You have no read or write permission on /dev/kvm.")
logger.error("Please change the ownership of this file as described at:")