Re: [PATCH v9 4/5] x86/PCI: Enable a 64bit BAR on AMD Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processors v5

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 11/22/2017 11:54 AM, Christian KÃnig wrote:
> Am 22.11.2017 um 17:24 schrieb Boris Ostrovsky:
>> On 11/22/2017 05:09 AM, Christian KÃnig wrote:
>>> Am 21.11.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Boris Ostrovsky:
>>>> On 11/21/2017 08:34 AM, Christian KÃnig wrote:
>>>>> Hi Boris,
>>>>>
>>>>> attached are two patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first one is a trivial fix for the infinite loop issue, it now
>>>>> correctly aborts the fixup when it can't find address space for the
>>>>> root window.
>>>>>
>>>>> The second is a workaround for your board. It simply checks if there
>>>>> is exactly one Processor Function to apply this fix on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both are based on linus current master branch. Please test if they
>>>>> fix
>>>>> your issue.
>>>> Yes, they do fix it but that's because the feature is disabled.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know what the actual problem was (on Xen)?
>>> I still haven't understood what you actually did with Xen.
>>>
>>> When you used PCI pass through with those devices then you have made a
>>> major configuration error.
>>>
>>> When the problem happened on dom0 then the explanation is most likely
>>> that some PCI device ended up in the configured space, but the routing
>>> was only setup correctly on one CPU socket.
>> The problem is that dom0 can be (and was in my case() booted with less
>> than full physical memory and so the "rest" of the host memory is not
>> necessarily reflected in iomem. Your patch then tried to configure that
>> memory for MMIO and the system hang.
>>
>> And so my guess is that this patch will break dom0 on a single-socket
>> system as well.
>
> Oh, thanks!
>
> I've thought about that possibility before, but wasn't able to find a
> system which actually does that.
>
> May I ask why the rest of the memory isn't reported to the OS?

That memory doesn't belong to the OS (dom0), it is owned by the hypervisor.

>
> Sounds like I can't trust Linux resource management and probably need
> to read the DRAM config to figure things out after all.


My question is whether what you are trying to do should ever be done for
a guest at all (any guest, not necessarily Xen).

-boris