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[Xen-devel] Re: [pvops xen/next ][iommu] attenpt to passthrough PCI-e usb controllor to PV domU SUCCESS :-)



Hello Pasi,

Ok added a few lines about it to that page.

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Sander

Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:49:16 PM, you wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:35:50PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> Hi Konrad,
>> 
>> Thx again and again and again :-)
>> Works like a charm by adding these to the domU kernel options.
>> I saw a lot of your hard work on the swiotlb on LKML as well, would be nice 
>> if it would be accepted together with pci-front,
>> that would make mainline kernels as domU work with pci-passthrough as well.
>> 
>> I now got it running with the linux 2.6.33 tree from your git tree, which is 
>> of course also very recent :-)
>> 
>> Now running on:
>> hypervisor: xen-4.0.0-rc6
>> dom0: xen-next
>> domU: 2.6.33 tree with pcifront and swiotlb from Konrad's git tree, and with 
>> some additional patches to het isochronous URB's working on the USB 3.0 xHCI 
>> driver from linux-usb mailing lists.
>> 
>> 
>> Pasi, perhaps a good thing to point out in the passthrough wiki pages (at 
>> least when using pvops kernels),
>>

> Yeah.. hmm.. so what should I add? You can also add it yourself ;)

> The current version is here:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough

> still a work-in-progress.. 

>> BTW how do you handle tables in the wiki's ?
>> Because i tried with the xen-hypervisor-boot-options page, but it was a real 
>> pain in the *ss to set it up.
>> 

> iirc in the GUI editing mode you can just right-click on the table and 
> add/delete rows/columns etc? 

> -- Pasi

>> 
>> --
>> Sander
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:12:37 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> >> Hello Weidong/Konrad,
>> >> 
>> >> 1) With iommu=0, the DMAR fault is gone (of course), but
>> >>         > (XEN) traps.c:2309:d1 Domain attempted WRMSR 000000000000008b 
>> >> from 00000a07:00000000 to 00000000:00000000.
>> >>         Stays in xm-dmesg, the pv guests is booted, and lspci shows the 
>> >> pci device. But the device doesn't function properly.
>> 
>> > How does it not function properly? Was this related to the IOMMU error ?
>> > Did you point it out to me previously and I missed it? If so, can you
>> > resend it to me please.
>> 
>> > If the problem is with the message about needing 'swiotlb=force' to be
>> > passed, 'iommu=soft swiotlb=force' should take care of that. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Sander                            mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 



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Best regards,
 Sander                            mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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