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Re: [Xen-devel] Buffers not reachable by PCI



We're having trouble getting a serial log. Are there other ways to capture the 
information you need?

Attached is a dmesg with 'debug loglevel 8' set on the kernel line... actually, 
with  

   #define DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL 8

set near the top of printk.c as well, since I wasn't seeing any difference in 
the log files with loglevel set to 8.

Neal

-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 12:30 PM
To: Taylor, Neal E
Cc: xen-devel; Kalev, Leonid; Dave, Tushar N
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Buffers not reachable by PCI

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:19:47PM +0000, Taylor, Neal E wrote:
> We're running 64-bit Xex 4.1.1 and 32-bit Linux 3.0.4 Dom0 (Linux 3.1 shows 
> the same symptom.)

Hm, 32-bit. Did it work if the Dom0 was 64-bit?
> 
> Several PCI drivers are unable to use DMA. Most fallback to using PIO but in 
> two instances the network drivers (e1000 and pcinet32) abort. The same kernel 
> running on the same hardware without Xen works fine.
> 
> Digging through the code, in swiotlb-xen.c I find "DMA_BIT_MASK(32)" 
> (0x00000000ffffffff) compared to "xen_virt_to_bus(xen_io_tlb_end - 1)" which 
> resolves to 0x1,20fd,feff. Since the address is larger than the mask, DMA is 
> declared as unsupportable.

<blinks>

xen_io_tlb_end resolved to 120fdfeff? That is a definite bug. Can you
attach you full bootup serial log with 'debug loglevel=8' parameters on
the Linux line please?



> In talking with others I hear Linux handles this situation with bounce 
> buffers. Is there a config setting I've missed to enable that for Xen? 
> (Config file attached)

The Xen SWIOTLB is by default enabled, so it is on, but the
xen_virt_to_bus(xen_io_tlb_end - 1) _MUST_ never be above 4GB. In your
case it is, which is bad. It is rather surprising as I had not seen this
ever happen.

Attachment: dmesg-log8.3
Description: dmesg-log8.3

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