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Re: Serious AMD-Vi(?) issue


  • To: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 10:20:30 +0200
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  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, Kelly Choi <kelly.choi@xxxxxxxxx>, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 14 May 2024 08:20:28 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 13.05.2024 10:44, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 09:09:54PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:33:31PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect this is a case of there is some step which is missing from
>>> Xen's IOMMU handling.  Perhaps something which Linux does during an early
>>> DMA setup stage, but the current Xen implementation does lazily?
>>> Alternatively some flag setting or missing step?
>>>
>>> I should be able to do another test approach in a few weeks, but I would
>>> love if something could be found sooner.
>>
>> Turned out to be disturbingly easy to get the first entry when it
>> happened.  Didn't even need `dbench`, it simply showed once the OS was
>> fully loaded.  I did get some additional data points.
>>
>> Appears this requires an AMD IOMMUv2.  A test system with known
>> functioning AMD IOMMUv1 didn't display the issue at all.
>>
>> (XEN) AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: DDDD:bb:dd.f d0 addr fffffffdf8000000 flags 0x8 
>> I
> 
> I would expect the address field to contain more information about the
> fault, but I'm not finding any information on the AMD-Vi specification
> apart from that it contains the DVA, which makes no sense when the
> fault is caused by an interrupt.

Isn't the address above in the "magic" HT range (and hence still meaningful
as an address)?

Jan



 


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