RE: Problems with latest unstable 1.3

["Barry Silverman" <barry@disus.com>]

In the new I/O world if xen owns the network interface, what does xenolinux
have to use as eth0?

Are there any devices (such as virtual disks) that I can use with the code
as is on a non-0 guest?

Barry Silverman

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Keir Fraser
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:49 AM
To: Keir Fraser
Cc: Barry Silverman; xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problems with latest unstable 1.3



Okay, I checked in a patch to sort out all these problems. Please try
it out on QEMU again and let me know if probing fails.

Note that only DOM0 will be useful in such a setup right now --- there
is no way for other domains to access devices that are controlled by
DOM0. New inter-domain virtual device drivers to cope with this are in
the pipeline...

 -- Keir

>
> The PCI- and IRQ-virtualisation is not quite there yet -- but hopefully
> it will be in a couple of days.
>
> Issues at the moment are:
>  - probing and routing of device interrupt pins -> IRQs is broken.
>  - passing of physical interrupts to guest OSes is untested and thus
>    probably broken in some way or another.
>
> I'm currently addressing all these problems.
>
>  -- Keir
>
> > I have been trying out the latest unstable with the new i/o and have
found
> > the following issue. I created a xen.gz with nodev=y set, and tried it
out
> > with all my devices in xenolinux.
> >
> > The "machine" I am running on is "qemu", and it doesn't have emulation
for
> > PCI. Therefore xenolinux is doing its ideprobes independent of the pci
ide
> > code.
> > It is calling the routine "probe_irq_on" in irq.c, and it is failing
with
> > the following messages:
> >
> > ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
> > Kernel panic: Failed to obtain physical IRQ 127
> >
> > "Probe_irq_on" is used to enable ALL unallocated irqs, the caller code
will
> > then twig the device you are probing (in my case it is the ide drives
for
> > ide0 disk, and ide0 cdrom) - and then will record the irq that actually
got
> > the interrupt thus figuring out which irq belongs to which device.
> >
> > The reasons it is failing seem to be the following:
> > 1) The probe enables 127 physical IRQs (NR_PIRQS), but xen fails to bind
any
> > pirq > 63. This is because sched.h only defines pirq_to_evtchn with a
size
> > of 64
> > 2) When I tried making that constant from 64->128, it still failed on
IRQ 12
> > (which I think was already allocated to another device).
> >
> > I was able to get much much further by setting "ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14
> > ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe" on the command line. It still
failed
> > much later on with an MMU update failure. I am currently tracking that
one
> > down further before reporting it.
> >
> >
> > Barry Silverman
> >
> >
> >
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