Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1091766] Re: Physical host crash with Mellanox IB PCI passthrough

[Vlastimil Holer]

Confirmed, third patch for legacy pci-assign enables only 4 vectors on
host and guest. Mellanox IB works for me fine as well. Thanks!

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Title:
  Physical host crash with Mellanox IB PCI passthrough

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  (from
  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/100736)

  We have been using PCI passthrough with the Mellanox IB interface
  (MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]) on Debian 6.0.6, kernel 3.2.23 and
  qemu-kvm-1.0 (both from backports). It worked fine until latest
  update in backports to qemu-kvm-1.1.2. With newer qemu-kvm versions
  IB device probe in guest fails leaving firmware to kill whole physical 
machine.

  I have then compiled qemu-kvm from source, 1.0.1 was OK, 1.1.2 fails and
  even 1.2.0 fails as well. Our setup is based on IBM System X iDataPlex
  dx360 M4 Server.

  Note: Now I have also tested latest qemu-1.3.0 with linux 3.7.1 and
  new VFIO mechanism and behaves the same way.

  On guest the mlx4_core fails to probe device:
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: irq 74 for MSI/MSI-X
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: irq 75 for MSI/MSI-X
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: irq 76 for MSI/MSI-X
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: irq 77 for MSI/MSI-X
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: NOP command failed to generate MSI-X interrupt IRQ 
51).
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: Trying again without MSI-X.
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: NOP command failed to generate interrupt (IRQ 51), 
aborting.
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: BIOS or ACPI interrupt routing problem?
  | mlx4_core 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A disabled
  | mlx4_core: probe of 0000:00:08.0 failed with error -16

  Which immediately results in reset of the whole physical machine:
  | Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d on CPU 0.
  | Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
  | Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

  Followed by events in hardware management module:
  | A software NMI has occurred on system "SN# xxxxxxx"
  | Fault in slot "All PCI Err" on system "SN# xxxxxxx"
  | Fault in slot "PCI 1" on system "SN# xxxxxxx"
  | A Uncorrectable Bus Error has occurred on system "SN# xxxxxxx"
  | "Host Power" has been Power Cycled
  | System "SN# xxxxxxx" has recovered from an NMI

  Kernel logs for both host/guest machines and different qemu-kvm
  versions are attached. PCI passthrough for e.g. Intel e1000 works
  fine with all tested qemu-kvm versions.

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