Re: Could not add PCI device with big memory to aarch64 VMs

Re: Could not add PCI device with big memory to aarch64 VMs

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/04/15 23:22, liang yan wrote:
> Hello, Laszlo,
> 
> (1)I am trying to add ivshmem device(PCI device with big memory) to my
> aarch64 vm.
> So far, I could find device information from vm. But it seems vm did not
> create
> correct resource file for this device. Do you have any idea that this
> happens?
> 
> I used the upstream EDK2 to build my UEFI firmware.
> 
> There are three BARs for this device, and memory map is assigned too,
> but only one
> resource file is created.
> 
> My qemu supports ACPI 5.1 and the command line is :
> 
>   -device ivshmem,size=256M,chardev=ivshmem,msi=on,ioeventfd=on \
>   -chardev socket,path=/tmp/ivshmem_socket,id=ivshmem \
> 
> The lspci information:
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Red Hat, Inc. Device 0008
>     Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device 1100
>     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-
> 
> 00:01.0 RAM memory: Red Hat, Inc Inter-VM shared memory
>     Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc QEMU Virtual Machine
>     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-
>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
>     Region 0: Memory at 20001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
> [size=256]
>     Region 1: Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
> [size=4K]
>     Region 2: Memory at 10000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
> [size=256M]
>     Capabilities: [40] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
>         Vector table: BAR=1 offset=00000000
>         PBA: BAR=1 offset=00000800
> 
> Boot information:
> 
> [    2.380924] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem
> 0x10000000-0x1fffffff 64bit pref]
> [    2.382836] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem
> 0x20000000-0x20000fff]
> [    2.383557] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
> 0x20001000-0x200010ff]
> 
> 
> Files under /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
> 
> broken_parity_status      devspec       local_cpus  resource
> class              dma_mask_bits    modalias    subsystem
> config              driver_override  msi_bus     subsystem_device
> consistent_dma_mask_bits  enable       power       subsystem_vendor
> d3cold_allowed          irq           remove      uevent
> device              local_cpulist    rescan      vendor
> 
> Information for resource:
> 
> 0x0000000020001000 0x00000000200010ff 0x0000000000040200
> 0x0000000020000000 0x0000000020000fff 0x0000000000040200
> 0x0000000010000000 0x000000001fffffff 0x000000000014220c
> 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
> 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
> 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
> 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (2)It also has a problem that once I use a memory bigger than 256M for
> ivshmem, it could not get through UEFI,
> the error message is
> 
> PciBus: Discovered PCI @ [00|01|00]
>    BAR[0]: Type =  Mem32; Alignment = 0xFFF;    Length = 0x100; Offset =
> 0x10
>    BAR[1]: Type =  Mem32; Alignment = 0xFFF;    Length = 0x1000; Offset
> = 0x14
>    BAR[2]: Type = PMem64; Alignment = 0x3FFFFFFF;    Length =
> 0x40000000;    Offset = 0x18
> 
> PciBus: HostBridge->SubmitResources() - Success
> ASSERT
> /home/liang/studio/edk2/ArmVirtPkg/PciHostBridgeDxe/PciHostBridge.c(449): ((BOOLEAN)(0==1))
> 
> 
> I am wandering if there are memory limitation for pcie devices under
> Qemu environment?
> 
> 
> Just thank you in advance and any information would be appreciated.

Now that Ard fixed
<https://tianocore.acgmultimedia.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65> (commit range
0b09c212a8ae..646a9e5b799b), this use case should work.

Thanks
Laszlo