[dpdk-dev] DMAR fault

jinho hwang hwang.jinho at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 00:25:50 CEST 2013


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Paul Barrette
<paul.barrette at windriver.com>wrote:

>
> On 08/12/2013 06:07 PM, jinho hwang wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Paul Barrette <
> paul.barrette at windriver.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/12/2013 04:19 PM, jinho hwang wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am using iommu to receive packets both from hypervisor and from VM. KVM
>> is used for the virtualization. However, after I deliver the kernel options
>> (iommu and pci realloc), I can not receive packets in hypervisor, but VF
>> works fine in VM. When I tried to receive packets in hypervisor, dmesg
>> shows the following:
>>
>> ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: complete
>> ixgbe 0000:03:00.1: PCI INT A disabled
>> igb_uio 0000:03:00.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 38 (level, low) -> IRQ 38
>> igb_uio 0000:03:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
>> igb_uio 0000:03:00.1: irq 87 for MSI/MSI-X
>> uio device registered with irq 57
>> DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
>> DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.1] fault addr *b9d0f000*
>>
>>
>> DMAR:[fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
>>
>> 03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit Dual
>> Port Backplane Connection (rev 01)
>>         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4-KR
>> Mezz
>>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>>         Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 38
>>         Region 0: Memory at *d9400000* (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4M]
>>         Region 2: I/O ports at ece0 [size=32]
>>         Region 4: Memory at d9bfc000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>         Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>         Kernel driver in use: igb_uio
>>         Kernel modules: ixgbe
>>
>> We can see those addresses are not matched. So the kernel got fault. I am
>> wondering why this happens?
>>
>>  I have seen this happen when VT-d is enabled in the bios.  If you are
>> using dpdk 1.4, add "iommu=pt" to your boot line.  Without it, no packets
>> are received.
>>
>> Pb
>>
>>
>>  One suspicion for this is BIOS. I am currently using BIOS version 3.0,
>> but the latest is 6.3.0. Does this affect the matter?
>>
>>  Any help appreciated!
>>
>>  Jinho
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Paul,
>
>  thanks. I tried your suggestion, but it works like no iommu command in
> boot line. I passed intel_iommu=pt, and receive packets from hypervisor.
> However, when I started VM with "-device pci-assign,host=01:00.0", it shows
> the following message:
>
>  qemu-system-x86_64: -device pci-assign,host=03:10.0: No IOMMU found.
>  Unable to assign device "(null)"
>  qemu-system-x86_64: -device pci-assign,host=03:10.0: Device
> initialization failed.
> qemu-system-x86_64: -device pci-assign,host=03:10.0: Device
> 'kvm-pci-assign' could not be initialized
>
>  The device is detached from kernel, and move to pci-stub. dmesg does not
> show any DMAR fault message anymore.
>
>  Any idea?
>
>  Jinho
>
>
> Jinho,
>  you need to specify both
>
> " intel_iommu=on iommu=pt"
>
> Pb
>

I tried that as well, but it works as if I only add intel_iommu=on.. which
means I do not receive any packets from hypervisor. I also have pci realloc
added. Does this affect?

Jinho
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