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RE: [Xen-devel] Hiding pci devices from dom0 drivers
>I've never had a problem with it. It can hang on unbind if the
>device in
>question is in use but as soon as you free up the device (i.e.
>close the
>application which accesses it) the script will continue.
Ian, I often met system crashing and rebooting several times when using
hiding pci script to hide a PCIe NIC. Is it a bug or expectable normal
condition?
Following is the serial console log when system crashing.
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Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc20000080000 RIP:
[<ffffffff880eaeed>] :e1000:e1000_check_for_link+0x13/0x369
PGD dae067 PUD dad067 PMD dac067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl bridge autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap
bluetoothePid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: GF 2.6.18.8-xen #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff880eaeed>] [<ffffffff880eaeed>]
:e1000:e1000_check_for_lin9RSP: e02b:ffffffff8052ee40 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: ffff8800000a47f0 RCX: ffff8800000a4530
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc20000080000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ef75cbd37cda3791 R09: ffffffffb8f63bae
R10: 000000003116eb91 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800000a4000
R13: ffff88001fe62dc0 R14: ffffffff8052ee90 R15: ffffffffff578000
FS: 00002af533322ac0(0000) GS:ffffffff804d9000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff804f0000, task
ffffffff80461180)
Stack: ffffffff804f1fd8 ffff8800000a4500 0000000000000100
ffffffff880e4b8e
ffffffff80559500 ffffffff80559500 0000000000000100 ffffffff880e4b6a
ffff8800000a4500 ffffffff8023a04c ffffffff8052ee90 ffffffff8052ee90
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff880e4b8e>] :e1000:e1000_watchdog+0x24/0x622
[<ffffffff880e4b6a>] :e1000:e1000_watchdog+0x0/0x622
[<ffffffff8023a04c>] run_timer_softirq+0x175/0x1fd
[<ffffffff80235ff3>] __do_softirq+0x7b/0x10d
[<ffffffff8020b098>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
[<ffffffff8020ce01>] do_softirq+0x62/0xd9
[<ffffffff8020cca0>] do_IRQ+0x68/0x71
[<ffffffff8034d985>] evtchn_do_upcall+0xee/0x165
[<ffffffff8020abce>] do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x2c
<EOI> [<ffffffff802063aa>] hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000
[<ffffffff802063aa>] hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000
[<ffffffff8020eec9>] raw_safe_halt+0xb7/0xdd
[<ffffffff80207040>] init+0x0/0x334
[<ffffffff802082c3>] xen_idle+0x67/0x79
[<ffffffff8020837f>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xcd
[<ffffffff804f97ea>] start_kernel+0x260/0x262
[<ffffffff804f922b>] _sinittext+0x22b/0x231
Code: 8b 0e 44 8b 46 08 83 f8 01 77 30 83 fa 01 8b ae 80 01 00 00
RIP [<ffffffff880eaeed>] :e1000:e1000_check_for_link+0x13/0x369
RSP <ffffffff8052ee40>
CR2: ffffc20000080000
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
(XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.
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Best Regards,
Yongkang You
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:32 PM
>To: Kay, Allen M
>Cc: Keir Fraser; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Han, Weidong;
>You, Yongkang
>Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Hiding pci devices from dom0 drivers
>
>On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:53 -0700, Kay, Allen M wrote:
>> What are your experiences with the reliability of the following
>> "pciback" script to dynamically "hide" pci devices after boot?
>>
>> I found it cause system hangs about 50% of the time.
>
>I've never had a problem with it. It can hang on unbind if the
>device in
>question is in use but as soon as you free up the device (i.e.
>close the
>application which accesses it) the script will continue.
>
>> I'm also having some issues with xen0 kernel. It has e1000 driver as
>> builtin. This causes problems since I need to use the latest e1000
>> driver from sourceforge so I need to modify xen0 linux config to mark
>> e1000 as "m".
>
>The -xen0 is intended to be a mostly statically compiled kernel with
>drivers for the most common hardware. If you want a modular kernel you
>should be using the -xen kernel.
>
>> In any case, the path of least resistence for me right now
>is to come up
>> with a set of instructions to ask people to download
>linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
>> manually, move it to xen-unstable.hg, turn on PCIDEV_BACKEND='y' in
>> config file, and then do "make install" in xen-unstable.hg.
>
>The xen-unstable build system will do the download phase for you. You
>can also use the "make CONFIGMODE=menuconfig linux-2.6-xen0-config"
>style targets.
>
>Ian.
>
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