Hello,
 
displ_be was compiled without zero-copy support early.
I have tried with the recompiled dom0 kernel, a result is the same.
 
Logs and configs (+displ_be’s CMakeCache.txt ) are attached.
 
 
Best regards,
Alexander
 
 
>Понедельник, 3 февраля 2020, 10:36 +03:00 от Oleksandr Andrushchenko < 
>oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com >:
> 
>
>
>On 2/1/20 4:39 PM, Santucco wrote:
>> Hello again,
>> I have not yet made to work my drm client, so I have tried to run
>> linux like a domU (to see how it should work), it doesn’t work too
>> — displ_be catches SIGSEGV:
>>
>> #0  0x00007f4afed1c161 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #1  0x000055723b9c5bec in Drm::DumbDrm::copy (this=0x7f4adc000e00) at
>> /home/santucco/tmp/xen-troops/displ_be/src/displayBackend/drm/Dumb.cpp:149
>> #2  0x000055723b9a8f51 in BuffersStorage::getFrameBufferAndCopy
>> (this=0x7f4ae00010e0, fbCookie=18446612682295083264) at
>> /home/santucco/tmp/xen-troops/displ_be/src/displayBackend/BuffersStorage.cpp:165
>> It tries to copy to mBuffer with non-accessible address.
>> For the moment I see a strange offset for mmap call of /dev/drm/card0
>> in the strace log — 0x100000000. Is that normal?
>> Any direction of which to dig will be very helpful.
>> Configuration details:
>> Xen 4.12.1 Dom0: Linux 4.20.17-gentoo #13 SMP Sat Dec 28 11:12:24 MSK
>> 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>> DomU: Linux 4.20.17-gentoo
>> last xen-troops/libxenbe and xen-troops/displ_be
>> Logs (dmesg, xl dmesg, displ_be, strace log of displ_be), a backtrace
>> of gdb and kernel configs are attached.
>> Thanks in advance.
>Could you please try Dom0 kernel WITHOUT the options below:
>CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV_DMABUF=y
>CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC=y
>
>Then, just to make sure, did you build displ_be without zero-copy support?
>
>> On 1/8/20 5:38 PM, Santucco wrote:
>> > Thank you very much for all your answers.
>> >
>> > Среда, 8 января 2020, 10:54 +03:00 от Oleksandr Andrushchenko
>> > < oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com
>> > < /compose?To=oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com >>:
>> > On 1/6/20 10:38 AM, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> > > On 06.01.20 08:56, Santucco wrote:
>> > >> Hello,
>> > >>
>> > >> I’m trying to use vdispl interface from PV OS, it doesn’t work.
>> > >> Configuration details:
>> > >>      Xen 4.12.1
>> > >>      Dom0: Linux 4.20.17-gentoo #13 SMP Sat Dec 28 11:12:24 MSK
>> > 2019
>> > >> x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel
>> > GNU/Linux
>> > >>      DomU: x86 Plan9, PV
>> > >>      displ_be as a backend for vdispl and vkb
>> > >>
>> > >> when VM starts, displ_be reports about an error:
>> > >> gnttab: error: ioctl DMABUF_EXP_FROM_REFS failed: Invalid argument
>> > >> (displ_be.log:221)
>> > >>
>> > >> related Dom0 output is:
>> > >> [  191.579278] Cannot provide dma-buf: use_ptemode 1
>> > >> (dmesg.create.log:123)
>> > >
>> > > This seems to be a limitation of the xen dma-buf driver. It was
>> > written
>> > > for being used on ARM initially where PV is not available.
>> > This is true and we never tried/targeted PV domains with this
>> > implementation,
>> > so if there is a need for that someone has to take a look on the
>> > proper
>> > implementation for PV…
>> >
>> > Have I got your right and there is no the proper implementation :-)?
>> There is no
>> >
>> > >
>> > > CC-ing Oleksandr Andrushchenko who is the author of that driver. He
>> > > should be able to tell us what would be needed to enable PV dom0.
>> > >
>> > > Depending on your use case it might be possible to use PVH dom0, but
>> > > support for this mode is "experimental" only and some features
>> > are not
>> > > yet working.
>> > >
>> > Well, one of the workarounds possible is to drop zero-copying use-case
>> > (this is why display backend tries to create dmu-bufs from grants
>> > passed
>> > by the guest domain and fails because of "Cannot provide dma-buf:
>> > use_ptemode 1")
>> > So, in this case display backend will do memory copying for the
>> > incoming
>> > frames
>> > and won't touch DMABUF_EXP_FROM_REFS ioctl.
>> > To do so just disable zero-copying while building the backend [1]
>> >
>> > Thanks, I have just tried the workaround.  The backend has failed
>> > in an other place not corresponding with dma_buf.
>> > Anyway it is enough to continue debugging  my frontend implementation.
>> > Do you know how big is performance penalty in comparison with
>> > the zero-copy variant?
>> Well, it solely depends on your setup, so I cannot tell what
>> would the numbers be in your case. Comparing to what I have doesn't
>> make any sense to me: one should compare apples to apples
>> > Does it make a sense if I make a dedicated HVM domain with linux only
>> > for the purpose of vdispl and vkbd backends? Is there a hope this
>> > approach will work?
>> You can try if this approach fits your design and requirements
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Juergen
>> > >
>> > [1]
>> >
>>  https://github.com/xen-troops/displ_be/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L12
>> < 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/xen-troops/displ_be/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt*L12__;Iw!!GF_29dbcQIUBPA!gi81oZZNvWaFWUVnaZluA_mNBAItLMd4RZmnc-M_FmlpDojqeQQnS7aXSNlbo80re9uOl2wqFA$
>>  >
>> >
>> < 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/xen-troops/displ_be/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt*L12__;Iw!!GF_29dbcQIUBPA!mz3gn1wQMX2DXeNuAV-1_dI7nxFYYZOgdPiJNSFMesCz9lAzOKlwVPlddbxbcLmUO44NOy0TFA$
>>  >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >   Alexander Sychev
>>
 
   
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