Re: [Xen-users] Odd domU Reboot Bug (possibly VGA passthrough related)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 21:44 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 09:42 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 19:22 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >> The thing that bothers me is that NVRM seems to be what's complaining,
> >> but the GPU being passed through is firmly under control of xen-pciback.
> >
> > Do the xl -vvv logs or the logs under /var/log/xen/ say anything about
> > rebinding the device at all?
> 
> Nothing at all.
> 
> > AIUI pci-assignable-add is supposed to unbind the original driver and
> > bind to pciback and nothing is supposed to rebind until
> > pci-assignable-remove, but perhaps something is (inadvertently)
> > happening on domain shutdown too?
> >
> > If you examine /sys you should be able to see which driver is bound to
> > the device, which might give a clue.
> 
> I'm quite certain it never unbinds - lspci -vvv shows the device still 
> being handled by the pciback driver.

Very strange that the NV driver is getting involved then.

> > If you just nuke the NV driver from dom0 altogether does that help? What
> > about if you hide the device via the kernel command line rather than
> > dynamically (assuming that works in your setup)?
> 
> I added xen-pciback module to initramfs and made sure it loads. I still 
> have to manually add the USB controllers manually, though, because the 
> USB driver appears to be built in on my kernel. Either way, this doesn't 
> change the situation, still works fine after a fresh reboot, but not 
> after a full VM shutdown.

But did you remove the nv.ko from dom0 altogher, ensuring it is never
loaded?

> 
> The pattern of events is quite consistent:
[...]
> Time to start experimenting with different slots again, it seems...

I'm afraid most of the intricacies of this stuff are completely beyond
me. You theory about bridges and slots sounds plausible so far as I am
qualified to comment though.

Ian.



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