Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xen/pciback: Implement PCI slot or bus reset with 'do_flr' SysFS attribute

2017-11-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:44:48AM -0600, Govinda Tatti wrote: > Thanks Jan for your review comments. Please see below for my comments. > > On 11/7/2017 8:40 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 06.11.17 at 18:48, wrote: > >>--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-pciback > >>+++ b/Documenta

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression PCI passthrough from 4.5.5 to 4.6.0-rc1

2017-11-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:11:17PM +, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 07:02:49PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:23:16AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 07:13:00PM +0200, Andreas Kinzler wrote: > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression PCI passthrough from 4.5.5 to 4.6.0-rc1

2017-11-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:23:16AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 07:13:00PM +0200, Andreas Kinzler wrote: > > > > > From a brief look it looks like this would be doable, but the way > > > > these flags are being communicated is rather ugly (the values used > > > > here > >

Re: [Xen-devel] pci-passthrough loses msi-x interrupts ability after domain destroy

2017-11-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 03:25:00PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:35:40AM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > > On 22/09/17 04:09, Christopher Clark wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sander Eikelenboom > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> On Thu, September 2

Re: [Xen-devel] pci-passthrough loses msi-x interrupts ability after domain destroy

2017-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 07:09:12PM -0700, Christopher Clark wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sander Eikelenboom > wrote: > > > > On Thu, September 21, 2017, 10:39:52 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 03:50:35PM -0400, Jérôme Oufella wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm us

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression PCI passthrough from 4.5.5 to 4.6.0-rc1

2017-07-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:32:42PM +0200, Andreas Kinzler wrote: > Hello Jan, Pasi, all > > >>Jan, I still have access to the hardware so perhaps we can finally solve > >>this problem. > >Feel free to go ahead; I'll be on vacation for the next three weeks. > > Perhaps we can shortcut debuggi

Re: [Xen-devel] USB Passthrough support X86_64

2017-07-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:39:36AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > > > > USB passthrough requires the device model. There is currently no > > provision in toolstack to spawn a device model on demand. > > > > The easiest workaround is to add one device (vfb?) that would require > > spawning a device

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] hw/pt-graphics.c: Gave guest iomem permission for host opregion in qemu-xen-traditional

2017-07-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, Perhaps Anthony can review this patch (noticing you reviewed other igd related patches recently..) ? Thanks, -- Pasi On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:12:50PM +0800, Xiong Zhang wrote: > Currently guest couldn't access host opregion when igd is passed through > to guest with qemu-xen-traditiona

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression PCI passthrough from 4.5.5 to 4.6.0-rc1

2017-07-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 06:39:03PM +0200, Andreas Kinzler wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that PCI passthrough for an LSI SAS HBA 9211 did not longer work > (at least under Windows) when using Xen 4.8.1. > I then bisected through various released versions and finally I narrowed it > down to > > 4

Re: [Xen-devel] HostedXen: Build Instructions

2017-02-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:40:17AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:08:11AM +0530, rohan kumbhar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested to restart Hosted Xen Project. > > > > I have gone through the presentation of Hosted Xen and Ian Pratt's video in > > Xen Summit

Re: [Xen-devel] dom0pvh issue with XEN 4.8.0

2017-02-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 04:05:32PM +0800, G.R. wrote: > Hi all, > dom0pvh=1 is not working well for me with XEN 4.8.0 + linux kernel 4.9.2. > > The system boots with no obvious issue. > But many user mode application are suffering from segfault, which > makes the dom0 not useable: The segfaul

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.9 Development Update

2016-12-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 02:57:04PM +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: > >> > >>Should we have a section on new PV drivers? If so, I suggest to add: > >>- Xen transport for 9pfs > >>- PV Calls > > > >Good idea. We could also include DRM and PV Sound (CC Oleksandr). > > > This is a great idea. Let

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen

2016-12-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello Igor, I noticed you're using @dilos.org email address these days, so i'm sending this email again.. see below for more info and a question for you.. On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Juergen Gross w

Re: [Xen-devel] Wondering about cirris and stdvga

2016-11-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 07:04:15PM +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote: > Sending again, this time, with Anthony's and xen-devel address spelled > right. Sorry!! :-( > --- > Hello to you, various pseudo-random people, > > It's not my field of expertise, so bear with

Re: [Xen-devel] [DRAFT RFC] PVHv2 interaction with physical devices

2016-11-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:51:49PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > > > Low 1MB > > --- > > > > When booted with a legacy BIOS, the low 1MB contains firmware related data > > that should be identity mapped to the Dom0. This include the EBDA, video > > memory and possibly ROMs. All non RAM region

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos Xen

2016-11-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > Xen tools contain several sources specific to Solaris, e.g. in > libxc, xenstored, xenstat, some other libs. > > Is this still required? If yes, all of it? > > Google tells me Oracle has dropped XVM support on Solaris. > Openindiana

Re: [Xen-devel] 3.18.y missing "x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments"

2016-10-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:37:14AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Levin, Alexander writes ("Re: 3.18.y missing "x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in > PVOPS environments""): > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:46:31PM -0400, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Hi. It appears that 3.18.y is lacking 581b7f158fe0 "x86/cpu: Fix

[Xen-devel] Hardware Random Number Generator (RNG) access from Xen VMs, providing more entropy to guests

2016-10-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Has anyone thought of writing Xen RNG (PV) driver? Afaik currently there's no access to hardware accelerated RNGs from Xen VMs, so for example SSL/TLS operations can result in low entropy and blocking /dev/random in Xen VMs, resulting in poor performance of applications. Running same a

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.8 Development Update

2016-07-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 05:07:23PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > == Toolstack == > > > > * Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader > > - Boris Ostrovsky > > > > * Libxl PVSCSI support > > - Olaf Hering > > > > * HVM USB passthrough > > - George Dunlap >

Re: [Xen-devel] Remus and blktap2

2016-04-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:07:46PM +, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote: >Blktap2 was the first disk backend implementation. I moved Remus to DRBD >because it had disk resynchronization support. For eg, when primary fails, >backup takes over. When primary comes back online, DRBD would

Re: [Xen-devel] VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs and Xen

2016-01-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
this stuff with Xen already? :) -- Pasi On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:52:41PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > It seems upstream Linux/Gallium3D/Mesa/Qemu/KVM has recently gained > virtualized support for 3D/OpenGL hardware acceleration in VMs, allowing > using the GPU

[Xen-devel] VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs and Xen

2015-11-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, It seems upstream Linux/Gallium3D/Mesa/Qemu/KVM has recently gained virtualized support for 3D/OpenGL hardware acceleration in VMs, allowing using the GPU of the host in VMs. Components: - Linux 4.4 kernel includes the DRM driver for VirtIO-GPU 3D acceleration (needed in the VM)

Re: [Xen-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/19] xen-2015-09-08-tag

2015-09-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > No, unfortunately it is not possible at this stage of the release cycle. > But users can still use QEMU 2.5 (as soon as it is released, which > should be in a couple of months) with Xen 4.6 as there is not a strong > tie bet

Re: [Xen-devel] Non readable output with XEN 4.4.3 serial console

2015-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:17:05PM +0300, NiX wrote: > Hi. > Hi, > As I posted about a week ago. I had an issue with an AMD FX-8350/Radeon > 7970/Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 and still do. After passing through the 7970, it > works just fine on windows 10 for as long as I do not reboot/shutdown that > V

Re: [Xen-devel] AMD Radeon 7970 passthrough on XEN 4.4.3 with an AMD FX-8350/Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 *HORROR*

2015-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 08:21:15PM +0300, NiX wrote: > After a lot of trial and error I got it working as a secondary > pass-through. Thanks mainly to bullshit examples around the net. None seem > to know nothing. > > I though of I am the idiot but I was wrong. > GPU passthru isn't very

Re: [Xen-devel] Asus X99-A VT-d problems

2015-09-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 08:45:20PM +0300, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote: >Hi, > Hi, >I'm using a Asus X99-A motherboard with latest bios which in paper (and in >BIOS) supports VT-d. However, with Xen 4.5.1 and Xen unstable the VT-d >fails completely on SATA AHCI with "failed to IDENTI

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:08:01PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Somewhere that people can refer to that describes this public-facing API > that "must not ever be broken or changed". If you want to put it in a > documentation file, or a .h file, I don't care. > > > >>It is used e.g. in SUSE's xen ke

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend

2015-03-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:46:33PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 15:41 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 03/04/2015 03:29 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 14:19 +, David Vrabel wrote: > > >> On 04/03/15 14:09, Juergen Gross wrote: > > >>> > > >>> The mai

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Development for Dummies.

2015-02-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
r project. When you know C and Linux/Unix internals well you can continue working on Xen aswell. -- Pasi > Cheers. > > > > On Friday, February 6, 2015 2:46 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:31:09AM +, Jason Long wrote: > > Can you tell me

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Development for Dummies.

2015-02-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
//gazagnaire.org/pub/GH09.pdf -- Pasi > Cheers. > > > > On Thursday, February 5, 2015 11:59 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:46:23AM +, Jason Long wrote: > > Hello Folks. > > I want to become a Xen developer and I don't hav

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Development for Dummies.

2015-02-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:46:23AM +, Jason Long wrote: > Hello Folks. > I want to become a Xen developer and I don't have any knowledge about > development. Can you tell me what programming language is needed? How can I > start and etc? > Hello, Xen is mostly written in C language, but the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] pvusb toolstack work

2015-01-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 03:51:03PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 16:28 +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > This patch series is based on Simon's work. Since there is no progress > > after last August, I hope we can make this work proceed. Any comment will > > be very appreciated. > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] Hvmloader: Modify ACPI to only supply _EJ0 methods for PCIslots that support hotplug by runtime patching

2015-01-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:45:03AM +, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.w...@oracle.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:31 AM > > To: Fabio Fantoni > > Cc: Ross Philipson; Ian Campbell; Paul Durrant; ke...@koconnor.net; > > Huangweidong (C); Han

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH Linux-2.6.18] scsifront: avoid aquiring same lock twice if ring is full

2015-01-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:22:58PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > The locking in scsifront_dev_reset_handler() is obviously wrong. In > case of a full ring the host lock is aquired twice. > > Fixing this issue enables to get rid of the endless fo loop with an > explicit break statement. > Is

Re: [Xen-devel] (v2) Design proposal for RMRR fix

2015-01-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:25:56AM +, George Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Tian, Kevin wrote: > >> From: George Dunlap > >> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:55 PM > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:49 PM, George Dunlap > >> wrote: > >> > If RMRRs almost always happen up a

Re: [Xen-devel] (v2) Design proposal for RMRR fix

2015-01-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:02:04PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 08.01.15 at 16:59, wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > the 1st invocation of this interface will save all reported reserved > regio

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0

2015-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:27:37AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > And I think there was optimizations to oxenstored to support up to 1000 VMs > > per host.. > > .. and that. > Actually I'm not sure anymore about "up to 1000 VMs per host".. I was certain I was reading about such n

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:21:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:06:23PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: > > Update to Xen 4.5.0"): > > > -The 4.3 release offers a number of improvements, incl

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] HVM PCI Passthrough: Code 12: Undersized PCI MMIO region?

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:08:35PM -0500, Stephen Oberholtzer wrote: > All, > Hello, > Please bear with me. I don't fully understand all of the mechanisms > involved here, so this message contains a large quantity of data, > including some links to even larger quantities of data. > The short ve

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 Development Update (RC4) - Documentation Updates

2014-12-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 03:30:23PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 19.12.14 at 15:52, wrote: > > ** The key changes normally are changes to scalability/memory/etc. limits - > > maybe Jan(x86) and Ian(ARM) can look let me know of changes > > Iirc scalability changes on the x86 side were mostly

Re: [Xen-devel] SRIOV on a NIC card

2014-12-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 07:05:18PM +0530, Galla Rao wrote: >Am trying to boot a guest OS on a Virtual Function, It hangs in preboot >The server is not a x86, it is on SUN SPARC > Afaik Xen has never been ported to SPARC.. Are you sure you're using Xen hypervisor? -- Pasi >What BI

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V5] Update pvSCSI protocol description / libxl

2014-12-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Juergen/Olaf: Now that Xen PVSCSI drivers are in upstream Linux 3.18 kernel I was wondering if you guys also have plans to work on adding xl / libxl support for PVSCSI ? Thanks, -- Pasi On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:14:32AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Update the protocol description o

Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind.

2014-11-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 08:00:40PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > On Nov 27, 12:11pm, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > } Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind. > > Hi, hope the week has gone well for everyone. > Hello, hopefully your weekend is going well. > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind.

2014-11-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 03:59:49AM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > On Nov 23, 4:26pm, Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= wrote: > } Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind. > > Hi Pasi, hope your week is starting out well, hi to Konrad from Oracle > as well as

Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind.

2014-11-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:57:14PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > Hi, hope the week is ending well for everyone. > > As readers of the list may remember we've kept the ATI primary adapter > passthrough patches current for qemu-traditional on Xen for a number > of years. Our 'run-passthrough'

Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind.

2014-11-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:05:48PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:02:33PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2:57pm, "Dr. Greg Wettstein" wrote: > > } Subject: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind. > &

Re: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind.

2014-11-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:02:33PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > On Nov 21, 2:57pm, "Dr. Greg Wettstein" wrote: > } Subject: [Xen-devel] Q77 IGD instantly crashes on xen-pciback bind. > > > Hi, hope the week is ending well for everyone. > > As I was walking out the door I remembered I had b