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[Xen-devel] RE: Crashdump and IOMMU problems
I believe Jan was involved with adding kexec support in iommu code.
As for systematic way to disable active DMA, isn't this similar to OS shutdown
case when all the drivers are unloaded? Does kexec unload all of the device
drivers? Once all the drivers are unloaded, there shouldn't be any DMA
transactions going on.
I don't know much about kexec flow but it sound like the high level flow is: 1)
dom0 kernel shutdown all of the device dirver and then 2) call
iommu_ops->suspend() or crash_shutdown() to disable all of the iommu hardware.
Allen
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cooper [mailto:andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:47 AM
To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Kay, Allen M; Wei Wang
Subject: Crashdump and IOMMU problems
Hello,
I have been debugging kexec interaction problems with XenServer and
found that the problem lies in how Xen tares down the computer in a crash.
The Xen kexec path does not touch IOMMU at all, which leaves the kexec
native kernel with interrupt remapping enabled without realizing it.
This leads to the kexec kernel failing to understand why its interrupts
aren't working.
As a debugging measure, I have put iommu_ops->suspend() and
iommu_disable_IR() on the kexec path and this 'fixes' the problem,
although it is far from safe.
From a correctness point of view, Xen really does need to shutdown all
IOMMU remapping before it jumps to the crash kernel. I know that kdump
is a "seat of the pants best effort" in the best case, but there is more
which Xen needs to do to help it along. I was considering adding a
crash_shutdown function to iommu_ops which goes and twiddles the
relevant disable bits, without saving state.
However, disabling DMA remapping while transfers are still ongoing is
likely asking for trouble. Seeing as people on here are likely to know
far more than me on this subject:
1) Is there a systematic way to find and disable active DMA transfers,
or indeed a systematic way to shut down PCI (etc) devices which is safe
for the kexec path.
2) Are there any other PC subsystems which could do with being shut down
in a sensible manor to make life easier for the kdump kernel?
Thanks in advance,
~Andrew
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Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com
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