On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:50:17AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > I was wrong.  The "cpu_set x offline" does send an event to the guest
> > OS.  SeaBIOS even forwards the event along - as far as I can tell a
> > Notify(CPxx, 3) event is generated by SeaBIOS.
> > 
> > My Windows 7 ultimate beta seems to receive the event okay (it pops up
> > a dialog box which says you can't unplug cpus).
> > 
> It may react to Eject() method.

The eject method is called by the OS to notify the host.  Right now
SeaBIOS's eject method doesn't do anything.

> > Unfortunately, my test linux guest OS (FC13) doesn't seem to do
> > anything with the unplug Notify event.  I've tried with the original
> > FC13 and with a fully updated version - no luck.
> > 
> > So, I'm guessing this has something to do with the guest OS.
> > 
> Can you verify that _STA() return zero after cpu unplug?

I've verified that.  I've also verified that Linux doesn't call the
_STA method after Notify(CPxx, 3).  It does call _STA on startup and
after a Notify(CPxx, 1) event.  So, the Linux kernel in my FC13 guest
just seems to be ignoring Notify(3) events.  (According to ACPI spec,
the guest should shutdown the cpu and then call the eject method.)

-Kevin
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