Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make new PCI device probe work with older hypervisors

[Espen Skoglund <espen.skoglund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For older dom0 kernels Xen will not know which PCI devices exists in
the system.  This has the implication that

  a) IOMMU device assignment will not work, and
  b) assigning MSI interrupts will not work.

The only way to avoid these "limitations" is to either perform PCI bus
enumaration at startup or to create new pci_devs on deamand (e.g.,
when guest wants to assign an MSI to a new unknown device).

Given that MSIs (and to a lesser extent IOMMUs) have only recently
found their way into Xen, I'm not sure whether it calls for having to
support a-few-weeks-old dom0s in Xen.

        eSk


[Keir Fraser]
> Thanks. One thing also -- do old dom0 kernels work with new Xen
> (i.e., do we have compatibility both ways)?

>  -- Keir

> On 7/7/08 13:40, "Espen Skoglund" <espen.skoglund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Be a bit more forgiving if hyervisor does not implement the
>> manage_pci_add hypercall.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Espen Skoglund <espen.skoglund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> --
>> diff -r bb937c2f7382 drivers/xen/core/pci.c
>> --- a/drivers/xen/core/pci.c Fri Jul 04 17:55:07 2008 +0100
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/core/pci.c Mon Jul 07 13:34:32 2008 +0100
>> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
>> manage_pci.devfn = pci_dev->devfn;
>> 
>> r = HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_manage_pci_add, &manage_pci);
>> - if (r)
>> + if (r && r != -ENOSYS)
>> return r;
>> 
>> r = pci_bus_probe(dev);
>> 
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