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[Xen-devel] Re: pci passthrough xhci host controller

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: pci passthrough xhci host controller
From: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:03:10 +0200
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Hi Konrad,

I indeed have the feeling the memleak's aren't huge, and adding the diverse 
kernel hacking debug options, ended op doing more wrong than right.
I have turned off the options i added, re-instated the "swiotlb=force" in the 
domU config to see if it goes from a working to a freezing config, but i have 
the feeling it will not make a difference.

Then i have 4 differences left:

- Other dom0 kernel since the tests resulting in continous freezes of my server
- Other domU kernel since the tests resulting in continous freezes of my server
- Other workload (server is running more VM's)
- Other physical hardware
        - server is AMD phenom X6, current config Intel quad core
        - Both have there iommu disabled
        - Both are 64 capable cpu's with 64 xen, dom0 and domU

        - But most notably perhaps, the intel has only 2GB RAM, the server 8GB

Could the available physical RAM be an issue here ?
I limit the ram for dom0 with dom0_mem=

After this test succeeds on the intel machine, i will retry the samen xen,dom0 
kernel and domU kernel on the AMD config.
Is there anything i can especially log/configure/debug to get more detail to 
see if the 8GB could be the problem ?

--

Sander


Monday, September 20, 2010, 10:33:44 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:09:35PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> Hi Konrad,
>> 
>> I have changed my setup a bit, using my old workstation as a xen test 
>> platform at the moment.
>> 
>> I'm now running:
>> - Xen-unstable                       xen_changeset : Fri Sep 10 19:06:33 
>> 2010 +0100 22132:3985fea87987
>> - Dom0: pvops stable-2.6.32.x        last commit 
>> b297cdac0373625d3cd0e6f2b393570dcf2edba6
>> - DomU: Own merge of:
>>                   -linus 2.6.36(-rc4) tree last commit 
>> 9c03f1622af051004416dd3e24d8a0fa31e34178
>>                   -your pci-front 0.6 tree
>> 
>> - Only one domU is running (copy of the one i used before on the other 
>> machine)
>> - Only one pci-e xhci hostcontroller is passed through (02:00.0)
>> - domU is booted with only iommu-soft
>> 
>> What happens:
>>      - domU boots fine, pci device is present, lsusb shows the card, but the 
>> grab util can't find the grabber on /dev/video0
>>      - The app keeps on trying ..

> What was the error with the /dev/video0?
> The same as before where the em_8xx died in a horrible death?

>>      - What i do see is a continuing stream of suspected kmemleaks in the 
>> domU

> Hmm.. They aren't huge, they are actually all quite small (64 bytes and 32 
> bytes).
> That is all that happens when DomU dies due to OOM going wild?



-- 
Best regards,
 Sander                            mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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