Re: xsa46-4.2.patch breaks PCI passthrough?

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 01/05/13 06:29, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've had a report lodged against my packages that the patch provided for 
> XSA46 against Xen 4.2.1 causes PCI passthru to break.
>
> It seems that 4.2.1 *without* the XSA46 patch works perfectly. 4.2.2 
> does not work.
>
> I added this patch in xen-4.2.1-6 of my RPMs (http://xen.crc.id.au) and 
> the reporter has built the same SRPM with xsa46 patch removed and PCI 
> passthrough works as intended.
>
> Reapplying the XSA46 patch causes it to break again.
>
> The bug report and logs can be found here:
> 	http://xen.crc.id.au/bugs/view.php?id=5
>
> Has anyone come across this?
>

XSA-46 was to do with PCI passthrough of PV domains, and in particular
changing some of the rules regarding interrupts.

One thing which is not clear from the bug report so far is what exactly
is failing with an EINVAL.  The implication is that it is the toolstack
which is bailing before the VM is created.

I will take a closer look at the two log files.

~Andrew