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[Xen-devel] Re: [pvops xen/next ][iommu] attenpt to passthrough PCI-e us

To: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [pvops xen/next ][iommu] attenpt to passthrough PCI-e usb controllor to PV domU SUCCESS :-)
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:49:16 +0200
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:35:50PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> Thx again and again and again :-)
> Works like a charm by adding these to the domU kernel options.
> I saw a lot of your hard work on the swiotlb on LKML as well, would be nice 
> if it would be accepted together with pci-front,
> that would make mainline kernels as domU work with pci-passthrough as well.
> 
> I now got it running with the linux 2.6.33 tree from your git tree, which is 
> of course also very recent :-)
> 
> Now running on:
> hypervisor: xen-4.0.0-rc6
> dom0: xen-next
> domU: 2.6.33 tree with pcifront and swiotlb from Konrad's git tree, and with 
> some additional patches to het isochronous URB's working on the USB 3.0 xHCI 
> driver from linux-usb mailing lists.
> 
> 
> Pasi, perhaps a good thing to point out in the passthrough wiki pages (at 
> least when using pvops kernels),
>

Yeah.. hmm.. so what should I add? You can also add it yourself ;)

The current version is here:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough

still a work-in-progress.. 

> BTW how do you handle tables in the wiki's ?
> Because i tried with the xen-hypervisor-boot-options page, but it was a real 
> pain in the *ss to set it up.
> 

iirc in the GUI editing mode you can just right-click on the table and 
add/delete rows/columns etc? 

-- Pasi

> 
> --
> Sander
> 
> 
> 
> Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:12:37 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> Hello Weidong/Konrad,
> >> 
> >> 1) With iommu=0, the DMAR fault is gone (of course), but
> >>         > (XEN) traps.c:2309:d1 Domain attempted WRMSR 000000000000008b 
> >> from 00000a07:00000000 to 00000000:00000000.
> >>         Stays in xm-dmesg, the pv guests is booted, and lspci shows the 
> >> pci device. But the device doesn't function properly.
> 
> > How does it not function properly? Was this related to the IOMMU error ?
> > Did you point it out to me previously and I missed it? If so, can you
> > resend it to me please.
> 
> > If the problem is with the message about needing 'swiotlb=force' to be
> > passed, 'iommu=soft swiotlb=force' should take care of that. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Sander                            mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

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