Re: DMAR and DRHD errors[DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set] Vt-d & intel_iommu

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 10:01 +0800, Jason Gao wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Device 03:00.0 is your raid controller:
> >
> > 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)
> >
> > For some reason it's trying to read from ffe65000, ffe8a000, ffe89000,
> > ffe86000, ffe87000, ffe84000.  Those are in reserved memory regions, so
> > it's not reading an OS allocated buffer, which probably means it's some
> > kind of side-band communication with a management controller.  I'd guess
> > it's a BIOS bug and there should be an RMRR covering those accesses.
> > Thanks,
> 
> First of all ,I want to known whether I can ignore these errors on the
> production server,and do these error may affect the system?

You'll have to make that call, the device is being blocked from reading
a memory address, we don't know what it's reading or why.

> By the way,when I removed the "intel_iommu=on" from /etc/grub.conf,no
> DMAR related errors occur

Of course.  One option you have is to use the iommu in passthrough mode
which allows host used devices unrestricted, identity mapped access to
the system while still offering PCI device assignment.  I wouldn't try
assigning device 3:00.0 though.  Add iommu=pt to enable this.

> It's a strange thing,other three Dell R710 servers with the same bios
> version v. 6.3.0, same kernel 2.6.32-279.14.1 on RHEL6u3(Centos 6u3)
> ,but these errors don't appear on these tree servers

Is the MegaRAID firmware and system management firmware the same as
well?  Thanks,

Alex