Re: [Xen-devel] xen crash related to pci passthrough

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05/27/2010 01:02 PM, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 27/05/2010 20:51, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
>>    3. attach device to PV domU
>>       dom0# xl pci-attach f13pv64 0000:03:00.0
>>    4. unbind from pciback
>>       dom0# echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/unbind
>>    5. rmmod driver in domU
>>       domU# rmmod e1000e
>>    6. Crash!
>>
>> The device in question is an Intel 82574L ethernet controller, using
>> msi-x interrupts.
>>     
> What happens if you pci-detach before unbinding from pciback? Not that Xen
> should crash of course, but a crash resulting from a mistake in detach
> ordring in dom0 would be less worrying than some alternatives.
>   

Doing things in a more sensible order (rmmod in domU, detach, unbind)
seems to work OK.  I was deliberately seeing what would happen if I
tried pulling the device out from under a domain.

    J

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