Re: [Xen-devel] libxl: problem with devices in PV

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Thanks for the help, I have a preliminary patch that allows booting PV
machines with xl on NetBSD, but there seems to be some issues with PCI
devices, the guest takes a very long time to start, and I think it's
because it's waiting for PCI devices to initialize.

[    5.280068] XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise:
295s...290s...285s...280s...275s...270s...265s...260s...255s...250s...245s...240s...235s...230s...225s...220s...215s...210s...205s...200s...195s...190s...185s...180s...175s...170s...165s...160s...155s...150s...145s...140s...135s...130s...125s...120s...115s...110s...105s...100s...95s...90s...85s...80s...75s...70s...65s...60s...55s...50s...45s...40s...35s...30s...25s...20s...15s...10s...5s...0s...
[  300.280078] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51714
[  300.280086] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51713
[  300.280495] XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/pci/0
(local state 3, remote state 1)

xm didn't add pci entries to xenstore, and I don't know what should be
the status of those entries, or if it's best to disable the adding of
pci entries to xenstore in libxl if no devices are configured?

I've looked at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenStoreReference,
but the wiki doesn't have any information regarding PCI xenstore
entries.

The status of those entries in xenstore is the following:

/local/domain/0/backend/pci = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1 = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0 = ""   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/frontend =
"/local/domain/1/device/pci/0"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/frontend-id = "1"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/online = "1"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/state = "1"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/domain = "debian"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0/num_devs = "0"   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/1/device/pci = ""   (n0,r1)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0 = ""   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/backend =
"/local/domain/0/backend/pci/1/0"   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/backend-id = "0"   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/state = "3"   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/pci-op-ref = "8"   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/event-channel = "8"   (n1,r0)
/local/domain/1/device/pci/0/magic = "7"   (n1,r0)

The patch attached breaks linux support, it is only attached for
informative purposes.

Regards, Roger.

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