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[Xen-devel] Possible regression in "passthough: add no_wb option for pci

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Possible regression in "passthough: add no_wb option for pci conf write"
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:55:03 +1100
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Qing He <qing.he@xxxxxxxxx>
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> passthough: add no_wb option for pci conf write
> 
> Current pt_pci_write_config always writes back to real pci conf
> space. However, in the case of MSI address and data registers,
> if guest changes the affinity of the interrupt, stale data will
> be written to these registers. This is particularly a problem
> if Xen uses per-CPU vector, where the interrupt in question fails
> to work. This patch fixes this by adding an option to disable the
> write back of certain controls.

This patch seems to cause the creation of passing a domain
to fail when passing through either an intel 82576 or 82572EI.
I didn't try any others.


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