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Re: [Xen-users] Anyone have success with ivtv in a pvm? I got DMA TIMEOU

To: Mark Hurenkamp <mark.hurenkamp@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Anyone have success with ivtv in a pvm? I got DMA TIMEOUT messages on xen-next/4.0-rc9-pre...
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:25:02 +0300
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Mark Hurenkamp wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:36:48AM +0200, Mark Hurenkamp wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> For some weeks now, i'm running a xen-4 based system, which i want to
> >> take over the tasks of my previous xen-3.2 based server.
> >> One of the things i used to do with my 3.2 system, was running a mythtv
> >> server inside a pvm with ivtv based hardware. This seemed to work fine
> >> with xen 3.2.
> >>
> >> Trying to get this to work with xen-4, i don't seem to have much
> >> success...
> >> older versions of the kernel would lock-up (well that's what you get for
> >> trying bleeding edge, i know), but now it seems to boot fine.
> >> However, as soon as i try to record something from /dev/video0 (e.g.
> >> using cat /dev/video0 > tmp0.mpg), i get a ivtv0 DMA TIMEOUT message on
> >> my console.
> >> When i break off the action (after about 30 seconds or so), the tmp0.mpg
> >> file has a 0 size, indicating nothing at all was recorded.
> >>
> >> Is there something i can do about this? Or am i just asking too much of
> >> the system right now? I also tried various swiotlb options (on 3.2 those
> >> were absolutely necessary), but to no avail.
> >>
> >> Any hints/tips would be very much appreciated!
> >>
> >
> > Maybe this wiki page helps?:
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough
> 
> Thanks for your input, i had read this page before, but now noticed there
> is one option mentioned there which i had not tried before: iommu=soft.
> Tried to boot with that just now, and i don't get the errors anymore, and
> the tmp0.mpg file now contains data.
> Not sure if everything works ok now, I will do more tests in the course of
> this week.
> At least I'm one more step closer to running mythtv in domU again!
> 

Yeah, we've been updating the wiki pages lately.

pvops domU kernels do require iommu=soft, so that explains your earlier 
problem.. :)

-- Pasi


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