Re: [Xen-devel] Asus X99-A VT-d problems

[Valtteri Kiviniemi <kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I thought that some of those verbose logging notifications were errors like for example "traps.c:2685:d0v10 Domain attempted WRMSR"

Well, now the system is booting but would you have any idea why the system only boots with iommu=verbose,debug but not with iommu=1? If I pass iommu=1 as a boot parameter it fails detecting SATA drives (AHCI) with "ata1.00: failed command: IDENTIFY DEVICE" error. Also USB fails with fatal error, "ehci_hcd 0000:xx:xxx:xx: HC died".

Also if I try to pass dom0pvh=1 it also crashes with iommu=verbose,debug - screen just goes completely black and system restarts itself - no way to see any error messages at all.

2015-09-09 11:56 GMT+03:00 Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>:

>>> On 08.09.15 at 15:21, <kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I got Xen booting now with VT-d enabled, lot's of errors and the system is
> unstable. xl dmesg output:

Lots of errors? I don't see much - can you point out the errors you see?
There are two interesting things:

> (XEN) [VT-D]iommu.c:1149: drhd->address = fbffd000 iommu->reg = ffff82c000201000
> (XEN) [VT-D]iommu.c:1151: cap = d2008c10ef0466 ecap = f0205b
>[...]
> (XEN) [VT-D]iommu.c:1149: drhd->address = fbffc000 iommu->reg = ffff82c000203000
> (XEN) [VT-D]iommu.c:1151: cap = d2078c106f0466 ecap = f020df

Two IOMMUs with different capabilities. I'll have to look at what
specifically one supports which the other doesn't, but I wouldn't
be surprised if code wouldn't fully cope with that.

> (XEN) Failed to enable Interrupt Remapping: Will not enable x2APIC.

But later ...

> (XEN) Intel VT-d iommu 0 supported page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB.
> (XEN) Intel VT-d iommu 1 supported page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB.
> (XEN) Intel VT-d Snoop Control not enabled.
> (XEN) Intel VT-d Dom0 DMA Passthrough not enabled.
> (XEN) Intel VT-d Queued Invalidation enabled.
> (XEN) Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping enabled.

... and ...

> (XEN) I/O virtualisation enabled
> (XEN)Â - Dom0 mode: Relaxed
> (XEN) Interrupt remapping enabled

I'll have to check what this inconsistency means.

Apart from that the request for a native kernel log with IOMMU
enabled still stands (for comparison as well as quirk identification
purposes).

Jan

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