Re: [PATCH] xen: Add support for XenServer 6.1 platform device

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Feb 25 2025 - 12:58:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 02:03:53PM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> On XenServer on Windows machine a platform device with ID 2 instead of
> 1 is used.
> This device is mainly identical to device 1 but due to some Windows
> update behaviour it was decided to use a device with a different ID.
> This causes compatibility issues with Linux which expects, if Xen
> is detected, to find a Xen platform device (5853:0001) otherwise code
> will crash due to some missing initialization (specifically grant
> tables).
> The device 2 is presented by Xapi adding device specification to
> Qemu command line.

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A crash seems unfortunate. And it sounds like a user mistake, e.g., a
typo in the Qemu device specification, could also cause a crash?

If the crash is distinctive, a hint here like a dmesg line or two
might help users.

> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/platform-pci.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/platform-pci.c b/drivers/xen/platform-pci.c
> index 544d3f9010b9..9cefc7d6bcba 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/platform-pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/platform-pci.c
> @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ static int platform_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> static const struct pci_device_id platform_pci_tbl[] = {
> {PCI_VENDOR_ID_XEN, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XEN_PLATFORM,
> PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0},
> + {PCI_VENDOR_ID_XEN, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XEN_PLATFORM_XS61,
> + PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0},
> {0,}
> };
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci_ids.h b/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> index 1a2594a38199..e4791fd97ee0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> @@ -3241,6 +3241,7 @@
>
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_XEN 0x5853
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_XEN_PLATFORM 0x0001
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_XEN_PLATFORM_XS61 0x0002

If this is the only place PCI_DEVICE_ID_XEN_PLATFORM_XS61 is used, we
would put this in platform-pci.c, per the pci_ids.h comment:

* Do not add new entries to this file unless the definitions
* are shared between multiple drivers.

> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_OCZ 0x1b85
>
> --
> 2.48.1
>