On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a NEC USB2 PCIx card which I assign to a Vista HVM by adding
>> pci = [ '0000:02:01.0', '0000:02:01.1', '0000:02:01.2' ] to the config
>> file, the card works well in Vista but if I try to detach it, destroy
>> the domain without shutting it down, or if the domain crashes, then
>> the entire machine locks up, I have a serial console setup but it is
>> completely unresponsive.
>>
>> Combined with the issue that when the machine is under heavy load
>> Vista sometimes BSOD with "A clock interrupt was not received on a
>> secondary processor" this causes the system to lockup frequently :(.
>>
>> I made sure to trigger safe removal of the device before detaching it.
>>
>> Perhaps all 3 functions of the card need to be detached at the same
>> time? or am I wrong in assigning all 3 in the first place? they are
>> all listed when I run xm pci-list-assignable-devices and it seems to
>> be necessary to assign all 3.
>>
>> Assigning the device by adding the setting to the config file, or
>> using xm pci-attach after the domain has booted does work, only
>> detaching causes the lockup.
>>
>> This happens on my main workstation which is a Supermicro X7DWA-N
>> running Xen 3.3.1 rc4 (also tried 3.3 with fix for "ValueError:
>> unsupported format character ':' (0x3a) at index 6" and
>> fix_find_parent.patch), I usually use my own Gentoo ebuild for Xen
>> dom0 kernel which is 2.6.27.8 with the openSUSE Xen patches rebased to
>> apply to vanilla without any of the other patches that openSUSE kernel
>> usually applies, but I have also tried using the interim 2.6.27 kernel
>> from http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/linux-2.6.27-xen.hg with the
>> same result.
>>
>> I replicated the problem on a Dell Optiplex 755 using the same
>> versions of Xen and kernel, but using a dlink network card which is
>> assigned as a single function (0000:02:01.0), it behaved exactly the
>> same, lockup on xm-detach.
>>
>> I seem to recall a commit recently for "hypervisor panic on domain
>> destory with passthru", but I cannot find it, anybody know where i can
>> find it and if it may help?
>>
>
> Maybe this is the one:
> http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=panic#query:panic
> list%3Acom.xensource.lists.xen-devel+page:2+mid:tfphqwwdstovpq5u+state:results
>
>> Thanks
>> Andy
>>
>> Andy
>>
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>
> --
> Todd Deshane
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>
That patch appears to already be merged into 3.3.1 rc4, it must be a
different problem.
Andy
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