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

[Robin Murphy]

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.

Thanks,
Robin.