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RE: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1

To: 'Ross Philipson' <Ross.Philipson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "'Bonenkamp, Ralf'" <ralf.bonenkamp@xxxxxxxx>, "'xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1
From: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:43:00 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1
Yes, we usually observed that the iommu fault on bdf 00:02.0 is harmless. What 
problem of VT-d did you find? Dom0 hang? Cannot passthrough device?

Regards,
Weidong

Ross Philipson wrote:
> The message will remain regardless of whether you set
> iommu_inclusive_mapping or not. The parameter is there to work around
> the underlying issue but the issue is not actually corrected. So the
> code that generates the message (which is detecting discrepancies
> between the e820 map and the DMAR RMRR values) will continue to
> report this even though you used the parameter. The real question is
> whether you are experiencing some other problems beyond the warning
> message - like a boot hang?       
> 
> Thanks
> Ross
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Bonenkamp, Ralf  
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:46 AM
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1
> 
> Hi Pasi,
> 
> Sorry - I forgot to mention that I've tried setting the
> iommu_inclusive_mapping=1 parameter too, but unfortunate I posted the
> output from a previous attempt without this parameter.  
> 
> The xm dmesg output and the DMAR parsing error remains the same. This
> was the reason posting, because I ran out of ideas... 
> 
> Best regards
> Ralf Bonenkamp
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Montag, 17. August 2009 16:32
> To: Bonenkamp, Ralf
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1
> 
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:53:23PM +0200, Bonenkamp, Ralf wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> currently I try to setup a new xen host v3.4.1 on top of a Asus
>> P5E-VM DO (latest BIOS, Vt-d capable and enabled in BIOS) to migrate
>> my extisting HVMs (Win2k3 server) running on Xen v3.3.0 to a new
>> home. I want to switch over to 3.4.1 to (hopefully!) passthrough my
>> ISDN board to a HVM domU. Unfortunate there seem some issue with the
>> VT-d DMAR tables which is beyond my knowledge and probably someone
>> has some hint how to proceed? :-) 
>> 
> 
> Well did you try iommu_inclusive_mapping=1, like it suggests ?
> 
>> (XEN) [VT-D]dmar.c:401: RMRR address range not in reserved memory
>> base = 7d600000 end = 7dffffff; iommu_inclusive_mapping=1 parameter
>> may be needed. (XEN) Intel VT-d DMAR tables have been parsed.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
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