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Re: Config space access to Mediatek MT7922 doesn't work after device reset in Xen PV dom0 (regression, Linux 6.12)



On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 02:52:33PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 29.01.2025 14:32, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 04:47:28AM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 09:40:18PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>> I guess the code at [2] is running in user mode and uses Linux
> >>> syscalls for config access?  Is it straceable?
> >>
> >> Nope, it's running as the hypervisor and mediates Linux's access to the
> >> hardware. In fact, Linux PV kernel (which dom0 is by default under Xen)
> >> is running in ring 3...
> >>
> >> But I can add some more logging there.
> > 
> > So I guess the hypervisor performs the config access on behalf of the
> > Linux PV kernel?  Obviously Linux thinks CRS/RRS SV is enabled, but I
> > suppose all the lspci output is similarly based on whatever the
> > hypervisor does, so how do we know the actual hardware config?
> 
> The hypervisor only intercepts config space writes; reads, particularly
> when going via mmcfg, ought to be unaffected, and hence what lspci shows
> should be "the actual hardware config".

FWIW, on x86, the first 256 bytes of config space for domain 0 uses
raw_pci_ops even when mmcfg is available (see raw_pci_read()).  This
normally means IO ports 0xcf8/0xcfc.



 


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