This is a grub bug and it is being tracked here:
[SRU] unable to boot guest with large memory when SEV is enabled on host
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-unsigned/+bug/1989446
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Impish)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955655
Title:
kernel-5.13.0-23-generic : Unable to boot when Secure Encrypted
Virtualization( SEV) is enabled without setting swiotlb boot param
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in grub2 source package in Impish:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Impish:
Invalid
Status in grub2 source package in Jammy:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Jammy:
Invalid
Bug description:
While investigating LP: #1955395 by using the -generic kernel image,
it appeared that it is impossible to boot the kernel unless the boot
parameter swiotlb is set to 512M (swiotlb=262144).
Wnen not set, the kernel tries to adjust the bounce buffer to 1024Mb
it fails and later trigger a kernel panic with the following trace :
$ grep TLB /tmp/console.log
[ 0.003665] software IO TLB: SWIOTLB bounce buffer size adjusted to 1024MB
[ 0.034219] kvm-guest: KVM setup pv remote TLB flush
[ 0.037063] software IO TLB: Cannot allocate buffer
[ 0.223009] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 255, 4MB 127
[ 0.223634] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 255, 4MB 127, 1GB 0
[ 0.297424] HugeTLB registered 1.00 GiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.297424] HugeTLB registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 1.018860] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[ 1.019552] software IO TLB: No low mem
[ 1.451497] Kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer
earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer
[ 1.491589] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB
buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer ]---
The SWIOTLB adjustment comes from the following kernel commit :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e998879d4fb7991856916972168cf27c0d86ed12
For some reason, the LowMem allocation fails (as seen by the "software
IO TLB: No low mem" msg),hence the SWIOTLB adjustment cannot be
completed.
When booting with the swiotlb=262144 value, we get the following output :
$ grep TLB /tmp/console.log
[ 0.050908] kvm-guest: KVM setup pv remote TLB flush
[ 0.308896] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 255, 4MB 127
[ 0.309494] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 255, 4MB 127, 1GB 0
[ 0.373162] HugeTLB registered 1.00 GiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.373162] HugeTLB registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 1.071136] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[ 1.071837] software IO TLB: mapped [mem
0x000000005bebe000-0x000000007bebe000] (512MB)
[ 1.529804] software IO TLB: Memory encryption is active and system is
using DMA bounce buffers
For comparaison, the Fedora 34 kernel (5.15.4-101.fc34.x86_64) with the same
adjustment mechanism does correctly adjust the SWIOTLB bounce buffer, without
the need to set the swiotlb= value at boot time.
The SWIOTLB buffer adjustment has been introduced in kernel 5.11.
We can make SEV enabled resources available for testing if needed.
...Louis
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ProblemType: Bug
AlsaDevices:
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 23 13:32 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 23 13:32 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu74
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq',
'/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: N/A
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
Lsusb-t:
Lsusb-v: Error: command ['lsusb', '-v'] failed with exit code 1:
MachineType: Scaleway SCW-ENT1-S
Package: linux (not installed)
PciMultimedia:
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=C.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13.0-23-generic
root=UUID=1f577236-6bf2-48ef-998a-ba45f71aca7f ro console=tty1 console=ttyS0
swiotlb=262144
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-23.23-generic 5.13.19
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-5.13.0-23-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-5.13.0-23-generic N/A
linux-firmware N/A
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
Tags: jammy uec-images
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: N/A
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 02/06/2015
dmi.bios.release: 0.0
dmi.bios.vendor: EFI Development Kit II / OVMF
dmi.bios.version: 0.0.0
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: QEMU
dmi.chassis.version: pc-q35-3.0
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnEFIDevelopmentKitII/OVMF:bvr0.0.0:bd02/06/2015:br0.0:svnScaleway:pnSCW-ENT1-S:pvrpc-q35-3.0:cvnQEMU:ct1:cvrpc-q35-3.0:sku:
dmi.product.name: SCW-ENT1-S
dmi.product.version: pc-q35-3.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Scaleway
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