Re: [PATCH v6] xen/pt: reserve PCI slot 2 for Intel igd-passthru

[Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@aol.com>]

On 1/6/23 9:10 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> On 1/6/23 9:03 AM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>>> Intel specifies that the Intel IGD must occupy slot 2 on the PCI bus,
>>> as noted in docs/igd-assign.txt in the Qemu source code.
>>> 
>>> Currently, when the xl toolstack is used to configure a Xen HVM guest with
>>> Intel IGD passthrough to the guest with the Qemu upstream device model,
>>> a Qemu emulated PCI device will occupy slot 2 and the Intel IGD will occupy
>>> a different slot. This problem often prevents the guest from booting.
>>> 
>>> The only available workaround is not good: Configure Xen HVM guests to use
>>> the old and no longer maintained Qemu traditional device model available
>>> from xenbits.xen.org which does reserve slot 2 for the Intel IGD.
>>> 
>>> To implement this feature in the Qemu upstream device model for Xen HVM
>>> guests, introduce the following new functions, types, and macros:
>>> 
>>> * XEN_PT_DEVICE_CLASS declaration, based on the existing TYPE_XEN_PT_DEVICE
>>> * XEN_PT_DEVICE_GET_CLASS macro helper function for XEN_PT_DEVICE_CLASS
>>> * typedef XenPTQdevRealize function pointer
>>> * XEN_PCI_IGD_SLOT_MASK, the value of slot_reserved_mask to reserve slot 2
>>> * xen_igd_reserve_slot and xen_igd_clear_slot functions
>>> 
>>> The new xen_igd_reserve_slot function uses the existing slot_reserved_mask
>>> member of PCIBus to reserve PCI slot 2 for Xen HVM guests configured using
>>> the xl toolstack with the gfx_passthru option enabled, which sets the
>>> igd-passthru=on option to Qemu for the Xen HVM machine type.
>>> 
>>> The new xen_igd_reserve_slot function also needs to be implemented in
>>> hw/xen/xen_pt_stub.c to prevent FTBFS during the link stage for the case
>>> when Qemu is configured with --enable-xen and --disable-xen-pci-passthrough,
>>> in which case it does nothing.
>>> 
>>> The new xen_igd_clear_slot function overrides qdev->realize of the parent
>>> PCI device class to enable the Intel IGD to occupy slot 2 on the PCI bus
>>> since slot 2 was reserved by xen_igd_reserve_slot when the PCI bus was
>>> created in hw/i386/pc_piix.c for the case when igd-passthru=on.
>>> 
>>> Move the call to xen_host_pci_device_get, and the associated error
>>> handling, from xen_pt_realize to the new xen_igd_clear_slot function to
>>> initialize the device class and vendor values which enables the checks for
>>> the Intel IGD to succeed. The verification that the host device is an
>>> Intel IGD to be passed through is done by checking the domain, bus, slot,
>>> and function values as well as by checking that gfx_passthru is enabled,
>>> the device class is VGA, and the device vendor in Intel.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@aol.com>
>> 
>> 
>> This patch looks good enough. It only changes the "xenfv" machine so it
>> doesn't prevent a proper fix to be done in the toolstack libxl.
>> 
>> The change in xen_pci_passthrough_class_init() to try to run some code
>> before pci_qdev_realize() could potentially break in the future due to
>> been uncommon but hopefully that will be ok.
>> 
>> So if no work to fix libxl appear soon, I'm ok with this patch:

Well, I can tell you and others who use qemu are more comfortable
fixing this in libxl, so hold off for a week or so. I should have
a patch to fix this in libxl written and tested by then. If for
some reason that does not work out, then we can fix it in qemu.

Cheers,

Chuck

>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>