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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: fail if there is no southbridge IO-APIC



On 02/07/2014 10:50 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 07.02.14 at 16:38, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/07/2014 10:23 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 07.02.14 at 16:12, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/07/2014 04:21 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
... but interrupt remapping is requested (with per-device remapping
tables). Without it, the timer interrupt is usually not working.

Inspired by Linux'es "iommu/amd: Work around wrong IOAPIC device-id in
IVRS table" (commit c2ff5cf5294bcbd7fa50f7d860e90a66db7e5059) by Joerg
Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>.

Reported-by: Eric Houby <ehouby@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Eric Houby <ehouby@xxxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_acpi.c
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_acpi.c
@@ -984,6 +984,7 @@ static int __init parse_ivrs_table(struc
        const struct acpi_ivrs_header *ivrs_block;
        unsigned long length;
        unsigned int apic;
+    bool_t sb_ioapic = !iommu_intremap;
        int error = 0;
BUG_ON(!table);
@@ -1017,8 +1018,15 @@ static int __init parse_ivrs_table(struc
        /* Each IO-APIC must have been mentioned in the table. */
        for ( apic = 0; !error && iommu_intremap && apic < nr_ioapics; ++apic )
        {
-        if ( !nr_ioapic_entries[apic] ||
-             ioapic_sbdf[IO_APIC_ID(apic)].pin_2_idx )
+        if ( !nr_ioapic_entries[apic] )
+            continue;
+
+        if ( !ioapic_sbdf[IO_APIC_ID(apic)].seg &&
+             /* SB IO-APIC is always on this device in AMD systems. */
+             ioapic_sbdf[IO_APIC_ID(apic)].bdf == PCI_BDF(0, 0x14, 0) )
+            sb_ioapic = 1;
+
+        if ( ioapic_sbdf[IO_APIC_ID(apic)].pin_2_idx )
                continue;
if ( !test_bit(IO_APIC_ID(apic), ioapic_cmdline) )
I don't know whether 0:14:0 is set in stone, I don't remember seeing
anywhere that this is architectural.

In the (unlikely) event that it is moved somewhere else will the user be
able to overwrite where it is? Do you
think that sb_ioapic may need to be set to true if appropriate bit is
set in ioapic_cmdline?
These are question you'd need to ask to JÃrg, the author of the
original Linux side patch. I took as a precondition here that he
knew what he was doing.
Xen already has a way to override IVRS' view of IOAPICs with
ioapic_cmdline, something that Linux doesn't. Presumably if the user
sets ivrs_ioapic[] option on boot line then he knows what he is doing
(at least one would hope so).
I think the logic we have is sufficiently similar to Linux'es.

My concern is that this patch would prevent the user from specifying
where the IOAPIC is. Will this boot option be useful at all now? When we
specify anything but 0:14:0 it will be pretty much ignored, won't it?
But the purpose here isn't to override how the hardware is
structured, but to overcome firmware vendors not getting their
ACPI tables correct.

Furthermore, what is being specified here can very well be
different from 00:14.0 - consider the northbridge IO-APIC and
eventual further ones.

This is exactly what I am asking: Suppose we have IOAPIC in the NB (I think it's something like 0:02.0) *and* IVRS is broken. Currently we can say 'ivrs_ioapic[0]=0:02.0' and we are good to go (right?). Will we still be able to do this?

-boris


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