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Re: [Xen-devel] pv_ops dom0 kernel failure with ata_piix / irq problems

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:58:00AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:09:30PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >  
> >>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:23:26PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >>    
> >>>Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>>On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:01:59PM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>        
> >>>>>>I just upgraded to newly released Xen 3.3.1 hypervisor but 
> >>>>>>unfortunately it
> >>>>>>didn't seem to help with my problem.. I still get the exact same 
> >>>>>>errors with
> >>>>>>ata_piix module:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-4-xen331.txt
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>xen_allocate_pirq: returning irq 30 for gsi 18
> >>>>>>xen_set_ioapic_routing: irq 30 gsi 18 vector 160 ioapic 0 pin 18 
> >>>>>>triggering 0 polarity 1
> >>>>>>ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 30
> >>>>>>xen: PCI device 0000:00:1f.1 pin 1 -> irq 30
> >>>>>>xen: disable pci device 0000:00:1f.1
> >>>>>>ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:1f.1 failed with error -38
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>I don't think the problem is ata_piix, I've tried the pv_ops dom0
> >>>>>kernel on a Dell Optiplex 755 and unbranded system with gigabyte
> >>>>>motherboard, on both systems none of the storage devices worked,
> >>>>>including ahci, ata_piix, I even tried putting the root filesystem on
> >>>>>a usb storage device but that too is broken, I think interrupt routing
> >>>>>is not working at all perhaps?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I'm going to do more testing this weekend...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>          
> >>>>Hello.
> >>>>
> >>>>I just did some more testing too..
> >>>>
> >>>>I upgraded to the latest patches for Linux 2.6.29-rc1-tip
> >>>>
> >>>>log of xen+kernel from serial console:
> >>>>http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-5-xen331-linux-2.6.29-rc1.txt
> >>>>
> >>>>(XEN) Command line: dom0_mem=1024M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all 
> >>>>com1=19200,8n1 console=com1
> >>>>Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/vg00/lv01 console=hvc0 
> >>>>earlyprintk=xen pci=nomsi
> >>>>
> >>>>And the failing part of the log is here:
> >>>>
> >>>>xen_allocate_pirq: returning irq 30 for gsi 18
> >>>>xen_set_ioapic_routing: irq 30 gsi 18 vector 160 ioapic 0 pin 18 
> >>>>triggering 0 polarity 1
> >>>>ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 30
> >>>>xen: PCI device 0000:00:1f.1 pin 1 -> irq 30
> >>>>xen: disable pci device 0000:00:1f.1
> >>>>Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29-rc1-tip #3
> >>>> 
> >>>>        
> >>>That means that the ata-piix driver decided it was unhappy for some 
> >>>reason, and decided to fali with ENODEV.  It would be very interesting 
> >>>to know what part of the device probe failed.  From the Xen perspective, 
> >>>it looks like everything went OK.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>I just did
> >>
> >>#define ATA_DEBUG
> >>#define ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG
> >>#define ATA_IRQ_TRAP
> >>
> >>in include/linux/libata.h
> >>
> >>and recompiling now.. let's see if that helps.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Here we go:
> >http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-6-xen331-linux-2.6.29-rc1-atadebug.txt
> >
> >piix_init: pci_register_driver
> >xen_allocate_pirq: returning irq 30 for gsi 18
> >xen_set_ioapic_routing: irq 30 gsi 18 vector 160 ioapic 0 pin 18 
> >triggering 0 polarity 1
> >ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 30
> >xen: PCI device 0000:00:1f.1 pin 1 -> irq 30
> >ata_host_alloc: ENTER
> >ata_port_alloc: ENTER
> >ata_port_alloc: ENTER
> >__ata_port_freeze: ata4294967295 port frozen
> >__ata_port_freeze: ata4294967295 port frozen
> >  
> 
> I don't know whether being "frozen" is good, bad or indifferent, but 
> that's a might strange ata interface number.  I don't suppose you have 4 
> billion ata interfaces on your machine?
> 

Heh. Yeah, that's weird.. I wonder what's going on. 

I'll try to debug that.

-- Pasi

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