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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.1 rc5 outstanding bugs

To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.1 rc5 outstanding bugs
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:43:41 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 06:59:55PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I went through the list of bugs affecting the latest Xen 4.1 RC and
> I made a list of what they seem to be the most serious.

What is the status of these? I know you made some strides in fixing
most if not all of them both in the hypervisor and Linux kernel.

> All of them affect PCI passthrough and seem to be hypervisor/qemu-xen
> bugs apart from the last one that is a libxenlight/xl bug.
> 
> 
>  *  VF passthrough does not work
> Passing through a normal NIC seem to work but passing through a VF
> doesn't.
> The device appears in the guest but it cannot exchange packets, the
> guest kernel version doesn't seem to matter.
> >From the qemu logs:
> 
> pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 0 since MSI-X is already      
>            function.
> 
> It might be the same problem of the two following bug reports:
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1709
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1742
> 
> 
>  *  Xen panic on guest shutdown with PCI Passthrough
> http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-panic-on-guest-shutdown-with-PCI-Passthrough-tt3371337.html#none
> When the guest with a passthrough pci device is shut down, Xen panic
> on a NMI - MEMORY ERROR.
> (XEN) Xen call trace:
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c48015f032>] msi_set_mask_bit+0xea/0x121
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c48015f087>] mask_msi_irq+0xe/0x10
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c480162fb1>] __pirq_guest_unbind+0x298/0x2aa
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c48016315c>] unmap_domain_pirq+0x199/0x307
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c480163321>] free_domain_pirqs+0x57/0x83
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c48015642a>] arch_domain_destroy+0x30/0x2e3
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c480104c59>] complete_domain_destroy+0x6e/0x12a
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c48012adfd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x173/0x1e1
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c480123327>] __do_softirq+0x88/0x99
> (XEN)    [<ffff82c4801233a2>] do_softirq+0x6a/0x7a
> 
> 
>  *  possible Xen pirq leak at domain shutdown
> If a guest doesn't support pci hot-unplug (or a malicious guest), it
> won't do anything in response to the acpi SCI interrupt we send when the
> domain is destroyed, therefore unregister_real_device will never be
> called in qemu and we might be leaking MSIs in the Xen (to be
> verified).
> http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=print_post&node=3369367
> 
> 
>  *  Xen warns about MSIs when assigning a PCI device to a guest
> also known as "Xen complains msi error when startup"
> At startup Xen prints multiple:
> (XEN) Xen WARN at msi.c:635
> (XEN) Xen WARN at msi.c:648
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1732
> 
> 
>  *  PCI hot-unplug causes a guest crash
> also know as "fail to detach NIC from guest"
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1736
> 
> 
>  * multiple PCI devices passthrough to PV guests or HVM guests with
>    stubdoms is broken with the xl toolstack
> Cannot assign >1 PCI passthrough devices as domain creation time because
> libxl creates a bus for the first device and increments "num_devs" node
> in xenstore for each subsequent device but pciback cannot cope with
> num_devs changing while the guest is not running to respond to the
> reconfiguration request. A fix would be to create the entire bus in a
> single cold-plug operation at start of day.
> 
> 
> 
>  - Stefano
> 
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