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Re: [Xen-devel] [v4][PATCH 2/5] xen, gfx passthrough: create intel isa bridge



Il 06/06/2014 05:06, Zhang, Yang Z ha scritto:
Paolo Bonzini wrote on 2014-06-03:
Il 30/05/2014 10:59, Tiejun Chen ha scritto:
+static int create_pch_isa_bridge(PCIBus *bus, XenHostPCIDevice *hdev)
+{
+    struct PCIDevice *dev;
+
+    char rid;
+
+    dev = pci_create(bus, PCI_DEVFN(0x1f, 0), "intel-pch-isa-bridge");

This is really a huge hack.  You're going to have two ISA bridge devices
in the machine, with the BIOS imagining that the "good" one is at 1f.0

Definitely. So how about expose a fake device at 00:1f.0 but not Isa Bridge? I 
have discussion with gfx driver developer, it is ok for them to check the 
device on 00:1f.0 no matter what device it is.

That would be slightly better.

and the ACPI tables actually describing the other one.  But the PCI
device at 1f.0 remains there and a driver in the OS could catch it---not
just intel_detect_pch---and if you want to add such a hack it should be
done in the Xen management layers.

If possible, the host bridge patches are even worse.  If you change the
vendor and device ID while keeping the registers of the i440FX you're
going to get conflicts or break firmware badly; TianoCore and SeaBIOS
both expect the normal i440FX vendor and device IDs, for example.

I only see the class id is changed but not vendor and device id.

Yes, and the class ID is a typo probably.

But when the guest reads the vendor and device ID, igd_pci_read passes it through. So effectively it changes, if I read the code correctly.

Paolo


The hardcoded list of offsets is also not acceptable.  It is also not
clear who is accessing the registers, whether the BIOS or the driver.
For Linux, a cursory look at the driver shows that it only accesses
0x50/0x52 of the listed offsets, but also 0x44/0x48 ("MCH BAR"), what
happens if that code path is encountered?

Will have a double check.


The main problem with IGD passthrough is the incestuous (and that's a
euphemism) relationship between the MCH, PCH and graphics driver.  It
may make sense at the hardware level, but for virtualization it doesn't.
  A virt-specific driver for GPU command passthrough (with aid from the
kernel driver, but abstracting all the MCH/PCH-dependent details) would
make much more sense.

Agree. But it is too hard.


It's really not your fault, there's not much you can do given the
hardware architecture.  But I don't think this code can be accepted
upstream, sorry.

Paolo


Best regards,
Yang






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