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Re: [Xen-devel] ASMedia ASM1083/1085 rev3 and Xen DMA Failure



On 10/04/2013 06:29 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
[+cc Konrad, xen-devel]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:43:46PM -0400, Aaron Opfer wrote:
First time submitting the kernel dev list, so if I have demonstrated
gross incompetence in some way, please cut me some slack. :)

I discussed with Clemens Ladisch an issue I was having that I thought
was related to the driver he authored for my soundcard, but on his
suggestion I experimented with other PCI devices and we have narrowed
the issue to the PCI Bridge.

What hints me toward DMA handling being the fault is the following
message I receive during kernel initialization after rebooting from an
Xen hypervisor into a baremetal-kernel, without a power-cycle:

[0.012815] dmar: DRHD: handling fault status reg 3
[0.012868] dmar: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [07:00.0] fault addr 7e00000
[0.012868] DMAR:[fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear

Presumably 07:00.0 is your soundcard, and apparently it did a DMA
read to 0x7e00000, which wasn't mapped by the IOMMU.

In addition to other hints, such as simple IO like changing the active
port on the soundcard worked (I could hear the relays clicking) but
not the functions that DMA would be used (streaming audio).

The PCI devices in my system are connected via this device, as listed by lspci:

06:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI
Bridge (rev 03)

This PCI bridge works under bare-metal Linux normally (w/ various
debian kernels stable/unstable/testing/backports), but under Xen
Hypervisor the PCI devices connected exhibit bad behavior.

So it fails with Xen but works otherwise?  I assume there are other
PCI devices, too?  Do they work?

If you want to open a report at http://bugzilla.kernel.org, that would
be a handy place to attach a complete dmesg log and "lspci -vv" output
for more details.

For
instance, aformentioned sound card outputs no sound and gets no
microphone input at all, and an ethernet card causes a system lockup
as soon as gnome's network manager attempts DHCP over it (presumably;
I did not test this as thoroughly as the sound card).

I've used Xen Hypervisors 4.1 and 4.2 and had the issues I described
above with both of them. I was briefly running 4.3 but I did not test
the device.

Rev1 of the ASM1083 was apparently buggy to the point of being
unusable, as Clemens pointed out. I would be disappointed if this
device is similarly unsalvageable,but would be happier if this buggy
hardware at the very least outputted warnings to users who attempt to
use it (in Xen).

Just out of interest, have you tried without Xen, with a normal kernel with full virtualization support with intel_iommu=1 (or equivalent AMD option)? If you still get the same problem it is likely the same issue I have with phantom PCI bridges.

Gordan

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