Re: Problems in PV dom0 on recent x86 hardware

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08.07.2024 10:15, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> I've got an internal report about failures in dom0 when booting with
> Xen on a Thinkpad P14s Gen 3 AMD (kernel 6.9).
> 
> With some debugging I've found that the UCSI driver seems to fail to
> map MFN feec2 as iomem, as the hypervisor is denying this mapping due
> to being part of the MSI space. The mapping attempt seems to be the
> result of an ACPI call of the UCSI driver:
> 
> [   44.575345] RIP: e030:xen_mc_flush+0x1e8/0x2b0
> [   44.575418]  xen_leave_lazy_mmu+0x15/0x60
> [   44.575425]  vmap_range_noflush+0x408/0x6f0
> [   44.575438]  __ioremap_caller+0x20d/0x350
> [   44.575450]  acpi_os_map_iomem+0x1a3/0x1c0
> [   44.575454]  acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler+0x229/0x3f0
> [   44.575464]  acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch+0x17e/0x4c0
> [   44.575474]  acpi_ex_access_region+0x28a/0x510
> [   44.575479]  acpi_ex_field_datum_io+0x95/0x5c0
> [   44.575482]  acpi_ex_extract_from_field+0x36b/0x4e0
> [   44.575490]  acpi_ex_read_data_from_field+0xcb/0x430
> [   44.575493]  acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value+0x2e0/0x530
> [   44.575496]  acpi_ex_resolve_to_value+0x1e7/0x550
> [   44.575499]  acpi_ds_evaluate_name_path+0x107/0x170
> [   44.575505]  acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x392/0x860
> [   44.575508]  acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x268/0xa30
> [   44.575515]  acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x221/0x5e0
> [   44.575518]  acpi_ps_execute_method+0x171/0x3e0
> [   44.575522]  acpi_ns_evaluate+0x174/0x5d0
> [   44.575525]  acpi_evaluate_object+0x167/0x440
> [   44.575529]  acpi_evaluate_dsm+0xb6/0x130
> [   44.575541]  ucsi_acpi_dsm+0x53/0x80
> [   44.575546]  ucsi_acpi_read+0x2e/0x60
> [   44.575550]  ucsi_register+0x24/0xa0
> [   44.575555]  ucsi_acpi_probe+0x162/0x1e3
> [   44.575559]  platform_probe+0x48/0x90
> [   44.575567]  really_probe+0xde/0x340
> [   44.575579]  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x110
> [   44.575581]  driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
> [   44.575584]  __driver_attach+0xd2/0x1c0
> [   44.575587]  bus_for_each_dev+0x77/0xc0
> [   44.575590]  bus_add_driver+0x112/0x1f0
> [   44.575593]  driver_register+0x72/0xd0
> [   44.575600]  do_one_initcall+0x48/0x300
> [   44.575607]  do_init_module+0x60/0x220
> [   44.575615]  __do_sys_init_module+0x17f/0x1b0
> [   44.575623]  do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170
> [   44.575685] 1 of 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 4
> [   44.575695]   call  1: op=1 result=-1 
> caller=xen_extend_mmu_update+0x4e/0xd0 
> pars=ffff888267e25ad0 1 0 7ff0 args=9ba37a678 80000000feec2073
> 
> The pte value of the mmu_update call is 80000000feec2073, which is rejected by
> the hypervisor with -EPERM.
> 
> Before diving deep into the UCSI internals, is it possible that the hypervisor
> needs some update (IOW: could it be the mapping attempt should rather be
> honored, as there might be an I/O resources at this position which dom0 needs
> to access for using the related hardware?)

Adding to Andrew's reply: Is there any BAR in the system covering that address?
Or is it rather ACPI "making up" that address (which would remind me of IO-APIC
space being accessed by certain incarnations of ACPI, resulting in similar
issues)?

Jan