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Re: Question about xen and Rasp 4B



Hi Jukka,

On 30/01/2021 13:53, Jukka Kaartinen wrote:


On 29.1.2021 20.50, Julien Grall wrote:
Hi,

@Jukka, would it be possible to at least configure your client to quote with '>'? This would make easier to understand who wrote what (tabulation is not great for that).

If you are using gmail, then configuring it to send it as plain text should do the job.
Sorry about that. May it's now better. Yes it is gmail. Maybe Thunderbird works better.

It should be possible to do it with the gmail web interface. Although, I know it has a few quirks when dealing with plain text.

Anyway, your reply is quoting with > now. Thank you for that!



On 27/01/2021 11:47, Jukka Kaartinen wrote:


On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:22 PM Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Jukka Kaartinen wrote:
     > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:54 AM Stefano Stabellini
    <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
     >       On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, Jukka Kaartinen wrote:
     >       > Thanks for the response!
     >       >
     >       > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:27 AM Stefano Stabellini
    <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
     >       >       + xen-devel, Roman,
     >       >
     >       >
     >       >       On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Jukka Kaartinen wrote:
     >       >       > Hi Stefano,
     >       >       > I'm Jukka Kaartinen a SW developer working on
    enabling hypervisors on mobile platforms. One of our HW that we use on
     >       >       development is
     >       >       > Raspberry Pi 4B. I wonder if you could help me a
    bit :).
     >       >       >
     >       >       > I'm trying to enable the GPU with Xen + Raspberry
    Pi for
     >       >       dom0.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=232323#p1797605
<https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=232323#p1797605>
     >       >       >
     >       >       > I got so far that GPU drivers are loaded (v3d &
    vc4) without errors. But now Xen returns error when X is starting:
     >       >       > (XEN) traps.c:1986:d0v1 HSR=0x93880045
    pc=0x00007f97b14e70 gva=0x7f7f817000 gpa=0x0000401315d000
     >       >       >  I tried to debug what causes this and looks
    like find_mmio_handler cannot find handler.
     >       >       > (See more here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=232323&start=25#p1801691 <https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=232323&start=25#p1801691>
    )
     >       >       >
     >       >       > Any ideas why the handler is not found?
     >       >
     >       >
     >       >       Hi Jukka,
     >       >
     >       >       I am glad to hear that you are interested in Xen on
    RaspberryPi :-)  I
     >       >       haven't tried the GPU yet, I have been using the
    serial only.
     >       >       Roman, did you ever get the GPU working?
     >       >
     >       >
     >       >       The error is a data abort error: Linux is trying to
    access an address
     >       >       which is not mapped to dom0. The address seems to
    be 0x401315d000. It is
     >       >       a pretty high address; I looked in device tree but
    couldn't spot it.
     >       >
     >       >       >From the HSR (the syndrom register) it looks like
    it is a translation
     >       >       fault at EL1 on stage1. As if the Linux address
    mapping was wrong.
     >       >       Anyone has any ideas how this could happen? Maybe a
    reserved-memory
     >       >       misconfiguration?
     >       >
     >       > I had issues with loading the driver in the first place.
    Apparently swiotlb is used, maybe it can cause this. I also tried to
     >       enable CMA.
     >       > config.txt:
     >       > dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d,cma=320M@0x0-0x40000000
     >       > gpu_mem=128
     >
     >       Also looking at your other reply and the implementation of
     >       vc4_bo_create, it looks like this is a CMA problem.
     >
     >       It would be good to run a test with the swiotlb-xen disabled:
     >
     >       diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/mm.c b/arch/arm/xen/mm.c
     >       index 467fa225c3d0..2bdd12785d14 100644
     >       --- a/arch/arm/xen/mm.c
     >       +++ b/arch/arm/xen/mm.c
     >       @@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ void
    xen_destroy_contiguous_region(phys_addr_t pstart, unsigned int order)
     >        static int __init xen_mm_init(void)
     >        {
     >               struct gnttab_cache_flush cflush;
     >       -       if (!xen_initial_domain())
     >       -               return 0;
     >       +       return 0;
     >               xen_swiotlb_init(1, false);
     >
     >               cflush.op = 0;
     >
     > With this change the kernel is not booting up. (btw. I'm using
    USB SSD for my OS.)
     > [    0.071081] bcm2835-dma fe007000.dma: Unable to set DMA mask
     > [    0.076277] bcm2835-dma fe007b00.dma: Unable to set DMA mask
     > (XEN) physdev.c:16:d0v0 PHYSDEVOP cmd=25: not implemented
     > (XEN) physdev.c:16:d0v0 PHYSDEVOP cmd=15: not implemented
     > [    0.592695] pci 0000:00:00.0: Failed to add - passthrough or
    MSI/MSI-X might fail!
     > (XEN) physdev.c:16:d0v0 PHYSDEVOP cmd=15: not implemented
     > [    0.606819] pci 0000:01:00.0: Failed to add - passthrough or
    MSI/MSI-X might fail!
     > [    1.212820] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error 18
     > [    1.452815] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error 18
     > [    1.820813] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error 18
     > [    2.060815] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error 18
     > [    2.845548] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/8, error -61
     > [    2.977603] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/8, error -61
     > [    3.237530] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/8, error -61
     > [    3.369585] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/8, error -61
     > [    3.480765] usb usb1-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
     >
     > Traces stop here. I could try with a memory card. Maybe it makes
    a difference.

    This is very surprising. Disabling swiotlb-xen should make things better     not worse. The only reason I can think of why it could make things worse
    is if Linux runs out of low memory. Julien's patch
    437b0aa06a014ce174e24c0d3530b3e9ab19b18b for Xen should have addressed
    that issue though. Julien, any ideas?

I think, Stefano's small patch is not enough to disable the swiotlb as we will still override the DMA ops. You also likely want:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 8a8949174b1c..aa43e249ecdd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ void arch_setup_dma_ops(struct device *dev, u64 dma_base, u64 size,
         set_dma_ops(dev, dma_ops);

  #ifdef CONFIG_XEN
-       if (xen_initial_domain())
+       if (0 || xen_initial_domain())
                 dev->dma_ops = &xen_swiotlb_dma_ops;
  #endif
         dev->archdata.dma_ops_setup = true;

Otherwise, you would still use the swiotlb DMA ops that would not be functional as we disabled the swiotlb.

This would explain the following error because it will check whether the mask is valid using the callback dma_supported():

[    0.071081] bcm2835-dma fe007000.dma: Unable to set DMA mask

Good catch.
GPU works now and I can start X! Thanks! I was also able to create domU that runs Raspian OS.

Glad to hear it works! IIRC, the swiotlb may become necessary when running guest if the guest memory ends up to be used for DMA transaction.


Now that swiotlb is disabled what does it mean?

I can see two reasons:
1) You have limited memory below the 30 bits mark. So Swiotlb and CMA may try to fight for the low memory. 2) We found a few conversion bugs in the swiotlb on RPI4 last year (IIRC the DMA and physical address may be different). I looked at the Linux branch you are using and they seem to all be there. So there might be another bug.

I am not sure how to figure out where is the problem. Stefano, do you have a suggestion where to start?


And also can I pass the GPU to domU? Raspberry Pi 4 is limited HW and doesn't have IOMMU. I'm trying to create similar OS like QubesOS where GPU, Network, keyboard/mouse, ... are isolated to their own VMs.

Without an IOMMU or any other HW mechamisns (e.g. MPU), it would not be safe to assign a DMA-capable device to a non-trusted VM.

If you trust the VM where you assigned a device, then a possible approach would be to have the VM direct mapped (e.g. guest physical address == host physical address). Although, I can foreese some issues if you have multiple VMs requires memory below 30 bits (there seem to be limited amount)>

If you don't trust the VM where you assigned a device, then your best option will be to expose a PV interface of the device and have your backend sanitizing the request and issuing it on behalf of the guest.

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall



 


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