On 01/27/2012 06:42 AM, Alexey Korolev wrote: > On 27/01/12 04:12, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 01/26/2012 04:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:52:27PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>> On 01/26/2012 11:14 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:46:03PM +1300, Alexey Korolev wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> In this post > >>>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg03171.html I've > >>>>> mentioned about the issues when 64Bit PCI BAR is present and 32bit > >>>>> address range is selected for it. > >>>>> The issue affects all recent qemu releases and all > >>>>> old and recent guest Linux kernel versions. > >>>>> > >>>>> We've done some investigations. Let me explain what happens. > >>>>> Assume we have 64bit BAR with size 32MB mapped at [0xF0000000 - > >>>>> 0xF2000000] > >>>>> > >>>>> When Linux guest starts it does PCI bus enumeration. > >>>>> The OS enumerates 64BIT bars using the following procedure. > >>>>> 1. Write all FF's to lower half of 64bit BAR > >>>>> 2. Write address back to lower half of 64bit BAR > >>>>> 3. Write all FF's to higher half of 64bit BAR > >>>>> 4. Write address back to higher half of 64bit BAR > >>>>> > >>>>> Linux code is here: > >>>>> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.2.1/drivers/pci/probe.c#L149 > >>>>> > >>>>> What does it mean for qemu? > >>>>> > >>>>> At step 1. qemu pci_default_write_config() recevies all FFs for lower > >>>>> part of the 64bit BAR. Then it applies the mask and converts the value > >>>>> to "All FF's - size + 1" (FE000000 if size is 32MB). > >>>>> Then pci_bar_address() checks if BAR address is valid. Since it is a > >>>>> 64bit bar it reads 0x00000000FE000000 - this address is valid. So qemu > >>>>> updates topology and sends request to update mappings in KVM with new > >>>>> range for the 64bit BAR FE000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF. This usually means kernel > >>>>> panic on boot, if there is another mapping in the FE000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF > >>>>> range, which is quite common. > >>>> Do you know why does it panic? As far as I can see > >>>> from code at > >>>> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.35.9/drivers/pci/probe.c#L162 > >>>> > >>>> 171 pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &l); > >>>> 172 pci_write_config_dword(dev, pos, l | mask); > >>>> 173 pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &sz); > >>>> 174 pci_write_config_dword(dev, pos, l); > >>>> > >>>> BAR is restored: what triggers an access between lines 172 and 174? > >>> Random interrupt reading the time, likely. > >> Weird, what the backtrace shows is init, unrelated > >> to interrupts. > >> > > It's a bug then. qemu doesn't undo the mapping correctly. > > > > If you have clear instructions, I'll try to reproduce it. > > > Well the easiest way to reproduce this is: > > > 1. Get kernel bzImage (version < 2.6.36) > 2. Apply patch to ivshmem.c > > --- > diff --git a/hw/ivshmem.c b/hw/ivshmem.c > index 1aa9e3b..71f8c21 100644 > --- a/hw/ivshmem.c > +++ b/hw/ivshmem.c > @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static void create_shared_memory_BAR(IVShmemState *s, int > fd) { > memory_region_add_subregion(&s->bar, 0, &s->ivshmem); > > /* region for shared memory */ > - pci_register_bar(&s->dev, 2, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_SPACE_MEMORY, &s->bar); > + pci_register_bar(&s->dev, 2, > PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_SPACE_MEMORY|PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64, &s->bar) > } > > static void close_guest_eventfds(IVShmemState *s, int posn) > --- > > 3. Launch qemu with a command like that > > /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp > 1,socket=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name centos54 -uuid > d37daefd-75bd-4387-cee1-7f0b153ee2af -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev > socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/centos54.monitor,server,nowait > -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc > base=utc -drive > file=/dev/dock200-1/centos54,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device > ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive > file=/data/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw > -device > ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -chardev > file,id=charserial0,path=/home/alexey/cent54.log -device > isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us -vga > cirrus -device > virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0x0 > --device ivshmem,size=32,shm="shm" -kernel bzImage -append > "root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0" > > in other words add: --device ivshmem,size=32,shm="shm" > > That is all. > > Note: it won't necessary cause panic message on some kernels it just hangs or > reboots. >
In fact qemu segfaults for me, since registering a ram region not on a page boundary is broken. This happens when the ivshmem bar is split by the hpet region, which is less than page long. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function