QEMU<->ACPI BIOS CPU hotplug interface -------------------------------------- QEMU supports CPU hotplug via ACPI. This document describes the interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS. ACPI BIOS GPE.2 handler is dedicated for notifying OS about CPU hot-add and hot-remove events. ============================================ Legacy ACPI CPU hotplug interface registers: -------------------------------------------- CPU present bitmap for: ICH9-LPC (IO port 0x0cd8-0xcf7, 1-byte access) PIIX-PM (IO port 0xaf00-0xaf1f, 1-byte access) One bit per CPU. Bit position reflects corresponding CPU APIC ID. Read-only. The first DWORD in bitmap is used in write mode to switch from legacy to new CPU hotplug interface, write 0 into it to do switch. --------------------------------------------------------------- QEMU sets corresponding CPU bit on hot-add event and issues SCI with GPE.2 event set. CPU present map is read by ACPI BIOS GPE.2 handler to notify OS about CPU hot-add events. CPU hot-remove isn't supported. ===================================== ACPI CPU hotplug interface registers: ------------------------------------- Register block base address: ICH9-LPC IO port 0x0cd8 PIIX-PM IO port 0xaf00 Register block size: ACPI_CPU_HOTPLUG_REG_LEN = 12 read access: offset: [0x0-0x3] reserved [0x4] CPU device status fields: (1 byte access) bits: 0: Device is enabled and may be used by guest 1: Device insert event, used to distinguish device for which no device check event to OSPM was issued. It's valid only when bit 0 is set. 2: Device remove event, used to distinguish device for which no device eject request to OSPM was issued. 3-7: reserved and should be ignored by OSPM [0x5-0x7] reserved [0x8] Command data: (DWORD access) in case of error or unsupported command reads is 0xFFFFFFFF current 'Command field' value: 0: returns PXM value corresponding to device write access: offset: [0x0-0x3] CPU selector: (DWORD access) selects active CPU device. All following accesses to other registers will read/store data from/to selected CPU. [0x4] CPU device control fields: (1 byte access) bits: 0: reserved, OSPM must clear it before writing to register. 1: if set to 1 clears device insert event, set by OSPM after it has emitted device check event for the selected CPU device 2: if set to 1 clears device remove event, set by OSPM after it has emitted device eject request for the selected CPU device 3: if set to 1 initiates device eject, set by OSPM when it triggers CPU device removal and calls _EJ0 method 4-7: reserved, OSPM must clear them before writing to register [0x5] Command field: (1 byte access) value: 0: selects a CPU device with inserting/removing events and following reads from 'Command data' register return selected CPU (CPU selector value). If no CPU with events found, the current CPU selector doesn't change and corresponding insert/remove event flags are not set. 1: following writes to 'Command data' register set OST event register in QEMU 2: following writes to 'Command data' register set OST status register in QEMU other values: reserved [0x6-0x7] reserved [0x8] Command data: (DWORD access) current 'Command field' value: 0: OSPM reads value of CPU selector 1: stores value into OST event register 2: stores value into OST status register, triggers ACPI_DEVICE_OST QMP event from QEMU to external applications with current values of OST event and status registers. other values: reserved Selecting CPU device beyond possible range has no effect on platform: - write accesses to CPU hot-plug registers not documented above are ignored - read accesses to CPU hot-plug registers not documented above return all bits set to 0.