From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 1] Intel VT-D: Don't turn x2APIC if there is a missing DRHD entry for the IOAPIC
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:04:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268287479.3015.96.camel@2710p.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81272f761f631d3c0929.1268154241@phenom.dumpdata.com>
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:04 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> # Date 1268154140 18000
> # Node ID 81272f761f631d3c0929642fc833b66243b7d2bc
> # Parent b8d2a4134a6823f6d5179928a0618eaf33be4684
> Intel VT-D: Don't turn x2APIC if there is a missing DRHD entry for the IOAPIC.
>
> Follow the Linux kernel lead in which the x2APIC is
> only turned on only if there is an DRHD entry for all
> IOAPICs in the system. If we don't do this
> we might enable x2APIC and see various devices not covered by the
> IOAPIC mentioned in DRHD, not receive any interrupts.
>
> Workaround is to use 'x2apic=0' on command line.
>
> diff -r b8d2a4134a68 -r 81272f761f63 xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c
> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c Wed Mar 03 17:41:58 2010 +0000
> +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c Tue Mar 09 12:02:20 2010 -0500
> @@ -127,10 +127,17 @@
> int iommu_supports_eim(void)
> {
> struct acpi_drhd_unit *drhd;
> + int apic;
>
> if ( !iommu_enabled || !iommu_qinval || !iommu_intremap )
> return 0;
>
> + // We MUST have a DRHD unit for each IOAPIC.
> + for ( apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++ )
> + {
> + if ( ioapic_to_iommu(IO_APIC_ID(apic)) == NULL )
This has a pretty serious bug. ioapic_to_iommu() gets returned
drhd->iommu. However, drhd->iommu isn't allocated until part of
iommu_setup(), which is called after enable_x2apic(). Has this ever
worked? Here's the fix.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
--
diff -r 132ac04cbdba xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c
--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c Tue Mar 09 18:18:19 2010 +0000
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/intremap.c Wed Mar 10 22:58:08 2010 -0700
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
/* We MUST have a DRHD unit for each IOAPIC. */
for ( apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++ )
- if ( !ioapic_to_iommu(IO_APIC_ID(apic)) )
+ if ( !ioapic_to_drhd(IO_APIC_ID(apic)) )
return 0;
if ( list_empty(&acpi_drhd_units) )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 17:04 [PATCH 0 of 1] Intel VT-d fix Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-09 17:04 ` [PATCH 1 of 1] Intel VT-D: Don't turn x2APIC if there is a missing DRHD entry for the IOAPIC Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-11 6:04 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2010-03-11 20:25 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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