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Re: [Xen-devel] PCI passthrough w/ shared IRQ in xen/master

To: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PCI passthrough w/ shared IRQ in xen/master
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:07:08 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:56:08AM -0500, Michael D Labriola wrote:
> I cannot pass a PCI card w/ a shared IRQ to a domU.
> 
> If my PCI card is in a different slot, and gets a different IRQ, it works. 
>  But in this one particular slot, it gets an IRQ that's shared with a 
> bunch of other bits of gear (USB, firewire, and ATA controller).  With the 
> shared IRQ, not only can I not pass the card to my domU, my dom0 freaks 
> and dies as well...
> 
> Both my dom0 and domU are using the latest xen/master pv_ops kernel and 
> I'm using Xen 3.4.2 (for now).  My domU is a pv domain.

There is a missing patch that I haven't pushed in the pcifront branch:

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/xen.c b/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
index e138053..923de2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static int xen_pcifront_enable_irq(struct pci_dev *dev)
        if (dev->irq < 0)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       rc = xen_allocate_pirq(dev->irq, 0, "pcifront");
+       rc = xen_allocate_pirq(dev->irq, 1 /* share */, "pcifront");
        if (rc < 0) {
                dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Xen PCI IRQ: %d, failed to register:%d\n",
                         dev->irq, rc);


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