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Re: [Xen-devel] IOMMU and AMD 890fx

Asrock will support iommu in next official bios release!

Jens


Am 22.06.2010 18:36, schrieb Huang2, Wei:
Wow, this is certainly very nice. Thanks for chasing this issue and sharing the 
BIOS...

-Wei

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Krehbiel-Gräther [mailto:xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:30 AM
To: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Leonardo Prosperi; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; 
Przywara, Andre; Huang2, Wei; Sander Eikelenboom; Joop Boonen; Oakley
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] IOMMU and AMD 890fx

Hi!

Back again with information from asrock support. They send me a custom bios for the 
"Asrock 890FX Deluxe3" today with iommu option. I flashed it and testet and it 
works.

Asking asrock support for distribution of this bios they said:

"
Yes, you can spread it :-)
But please keep in mind it is right now a beta/test BIOS version, so we cannot give 
guarantee everything working stable... you know ;-) "

So I put it as attachement to this mail. Maybe you want to add this board (with 
this bios as download) to the wiki list of working mainboards?

Regards,
    Jens


Am 21.06.2010 17:39, schrieb Joerg Roedel:
Hi Jens,

great to know. Thanks for your testing.

Joerg

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:00:10PM +0200, Jens Krehbiel-Gräther wrote:
Another board with working AMD IOMMU: Asus M4A89TD Pro/USB3

Just got it in hands and testet successful!

Jens



Am 18.06.2010 16:24, schrieb Sander Eikelenboom:
Hi Jens,

Thx for reporting your successful pci passthrough with an AMD IOMMU, i have put 
this motherboard in the xen vt-d/iommu wiki as a motherboard with the BIOS 
supporting the IOMMU.
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo

--
Sander

Hi!

Thanks for the tips!

With xen-4.0-testing.hg tree + 2.6.32-bpo.5-xen-amd64 (from debian
lenny
backports) it works. So the 4.0.0 release could be buggy?
When I compile and install xen-4.0-testing.hg tree it works as you
described.
With 4.0.0 it did not work with any pci device, with
xen-4.0-testing.hg tree it works with the two I tested for the moment:

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
(rev 40) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
Device 4381 (rev 11)

(I just randomly take two devices).
They appear in the hvm virtual machine and they are working.

Great, thank you very much!

Jens


Am 17.06.2010 19:16, schrieb Wei Huang:
Hi Jens,

Thanks for testing it out. I tested Xen 4.0 on my machine this morning.
The passthru did work. Here are the details:

1. I used Xen 4.0 (xen-4.0-testing.hg tree) + 2.6.18.8 Dom0 2. My
system is a workstation; so it doesn't have a HDA device. Here is
what I get from lspci (I skipped some of un-related devices):
==========
...
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev
3b)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE
Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host
controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2
Controller ...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device
949e
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT Audio device
[Radeon HD 4670] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation
82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 06) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel
Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
========== As you can see, I have two NICs (a two-port Intel
82571EB NIC and a single-port 82572EI NIC). I am going to passthru
82571EB NIC to a Linux guest VM.

3. Here is the output from "xm dmesg". Because you also see a
similar message, I think your IOMMU is working.
(XEN) AMD-Vi: IOMMU 0 Enabled.
(XEN) I/O virtualisation enabled
(XEN) I/O virtualisation for PV guests disabled

FYI, here is my grub entry:
==================
title 64bit Xen-unstable on SLES11 root (hd0,5) kernel
/boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=512M console=com2 com2=115200,8n1 iommu=1
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8 root=/dev/hdb6 resume=/dev/hdb3
module /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8 ==================

4. After login, I removed 82571EB from dom0

    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.0">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind
    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.1">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind
    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.0">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot
    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.1">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot
    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.0">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind
    >    echo -n "0000:02:00.1">    /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind

5. In guest (ttylinux) configure file, I use the following setting.
...
pci=[ '02:00.0', '02:00.1' ]
...

6. After ttylinux booted, I saw two Intel NICs. The IP address was
obtained automatically. See the attached image file.

Same as what Konrad has mentioned, I would recommend two things:
i) instead of passthru HDA, try other independent PCIe devices
first (such as NICs); ii) configure the passthru devices in guest
configure file, instead of use it a hot-plug device. I can send
you my guest configure file if you need it.

PS: I am pretty confident HDA passthru work because I tested it on
an desktop system before. Here is the list of devices I have
passthru to a
Win7 guest VM on that system: (1) USB keyboard and mouse; (2) HDA
audio;
(3) ATI graphics.

Thanks,
-Wei



Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:09:31AM +0200, Jens Krehbiel-Gräther wrote:
Hi!

I now have a Asus Crosshair IV for testing and this board (as I
postet earlier) supports iommu. Now I have installed Debian
lenny
(5.0) and compiled xen 4.0.0.
Xen is running now and I have installed a hvm debian lenny to
which I would like to bind a pci device but that doesn't work.
Perhaps I am doing something wrong and you could help me?

Is that the _only_ PCI device you have tried to assign? Did you
try to assign other PCI devices which have the function number being zero?
and xm dmesg this:

(XEN) domctl.c:853:d0 XEN_DOMCTL_assign_device: assign device
(0:14.2) failed

That is not very useful. Wish it gave you the return code at least.
If you are comfortable with adding printks in the Xen hypervisor
I would modify it a bit to see what was the 'ret' value and why
'intel_iommu_assign_device' function failed.

So can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong??

Please also attach the full serial long, including the Xen one -
and run it with 'loglvl=all iommu=verbose'.




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