Re: [Xen-devel] LSI SAS2008 Option Rom Failure

[David Erickson <halcyon1981@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 10:35 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 31.07.12 at 11:04, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 08:35 +0100, David Erickson wrote:
>> >> Just got back in town, following up on the prior discussion.  I
>> >> successfully compiled the latest code (25688 and qemu upstream
>> >> 5e3bc7144edd6e4fa2824944e5eb16c28197dd5a), but am still having
>> >> problems during initialization of the card in the guest, in particular
>> >> the unsupported delivery mode 3 which seems to cause interrupt related
>> >> problems during init.
>> >
>> > The log has "(XEN) vmsi.c:108:d32767 Unsupported delivery mode 3"
>> >
>> > mode 3 in this context appears to be dest__reserved_1, which corresponds
>> > to the IOAPIC datasheet I'm looking at[0], which shows that DELMOD=3 is
>> > reserved.
>> >
>> > The specification update[1] doesn't seem to add anything in this regard.
>> >
>> > So either I've missed another update, we are mis-emulating something
>> > resulting in an invalid mode or Linux/the LSI ROM are using an
>> > unspecified IOAPIC mode. Perhaps Jan or Andrew have some idea which it
>> > is.
>>
>> At a first glance I would assume this to be the same problem
>> that was recently fixed for running with qemu-traditional by
>> Stefano. See 
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=staging/qemu-xen-unstable.git;a=commit;h=ce6d9b1b2f9c6a5ca2500e03d0ef8b453bc4bf53
>> (and the earlier thread leading there; didn't check whether this
>> applies to upstream qemu at all). Later he also provided a full
>> patch, but I don't even see this in our traditional tree, yet -
>> Ian(J)?
>
> Isn't the link above our traditional tree?
>
> Anyhow, it's a plausible theory.
>
> David, as a workaround I think you can add "pci_msitranslate=0" to the
> guest configuration file.
>

Gave this a go, same problem, will try the further logging suggested below next.

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