Re: iommu: flood of ahci 0000:e6:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0055 address=0xa14a4000 flags=0x0070]

[Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>]

Le Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 01:01:45PM +0000, Robin Murphy a écrit :
> On 2025-02-03 9:05 am, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have a supermicro server which is flooded of kernel message:
> > ahci 0000:e6:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0055 address=0xa14a4000 flags=0x0070]
> > 
> > The server works perfectly anyway.
> > It happens with official ubuntu kernel vmlinuz-6.8.0-51-generic.
> > I tried also a custom 6.12.6, same problem.
> > 
> > I tried to update bios, no change.
> > I tried iommu=soft, no change.
> > 
> > I dont know what to do next.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> 
> > IOMMU group 83 e6:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe 2.0 x2 4-port SATA 6 Gb/s RAID Controller [1b4b:9230] (rev 11)
> 
> Wow, a Marvell SATA controller doing something other than the usual 
> phantom function quirk, that's a nice change :D
> 
> I'd guess that firmware has left it running for something like legacy 
> IDE emulation (if that's still a thing?) or its own soft-RAID driver, 
> but neglected to declare an IVMD entry to described the reserved memory 
> region(s) it's using for that. A smoking gun would be if 0xa14a4000 
> matches some firmware-reserved PA in the system memory map. In that 
> case, if you're lucky you might have some firmware/BIOS option to 
> disable fancy behaviour and leave it in plain AHCI mode. Otherwise, 
> booting with "iommu.passthrough=1" (or the even bigger hammer of 
> "amd_iommu=off") should at least allow you to ignore the issue.
> 

Hello

Thanks for your help

There was no AHCI option in the BIOS (appart hotplug enable).

Adding iommu.passthrough=1 lead to absence of thoses messages.

Unfortunatly, my example is not correct, the address is mostly random:
dmesg |grep IO_PAGE_FAULT | grep -o 'address=0x[0-9a-f]*' | sort | uniq -c | wc -l
9297

dmesg |grep IO_PAGE_FAULT | grep -o 'address=0x[0-9a-f]*' | sort | uniq -c | head
      2 address=0x1101f000
      2 address=0x1101f004
      3 address=0x1102f000
      1 address=0x1102f004
      2 address=0x1102f008
      2 address=0x1102f010
      2 address=0x11043000
      2 address=0x11043004
      1 address=0x11047000
      1 address=0x11047004

dmesg |grep IO_PAGE_FAULT | grep -o 'address=0x[0-9a-f]*' | sort | uniq -c | tail
      2 address=0xfffffffffe751004
      2 address=0xfffffffffe7e6000
      2 address=0xfffffffffe7e6004
      4 address=0xfffffffffe823000
      3 address=0xfffffffffe823004
      2 address=0xfffffffffe830000
      2 address=0xfffffffffe830004
      3 address=0xfffffffffe833000
      1 address=0xfffffffffe833004
      1 address=0xfffffffffe833008

But the domain/flags are always the same

Full dmesg (without IOMMU messages) https://kernel.montjoie.ovh/dmesg.0

The server is doing qemu GPU passthough via VFIO.
I believe (aka I need to re-verify) that message start whatever qemu starts or not.

Thanks
Regards