Re: [Qemu-discuss] QEMU PCI Passthrough FPGA with more than 2GB never starts

[Jakob Bohm]

On 06/05/2017 09:39, Miltos Hatzimihail wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I ve got a system with a Xilinx FPGA on a PCI express slot and I am trying to 
> pass it through using QEMU with vfio-pci. Here’s my command line:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 4,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=2 -machine 
> pc-i440fx-xenial,accel=kvm  --cpu qemu64 -enable-kvm -vnc :1   -device 
> vfio-pci,host=04:01.0 .. .. .. -mem 2G
>
> The VM starts OK with men = 2G. If I try to assign more memory to this host 
> (say 4GB), then the VM doesn’t even boot to the BIOS (it says that ‘This guest 
> has initialised the display ‘yet’). The weird thing is that if I omit the 
> passthrough, the VM starts ok with 4GB.
>
> The PCI device is configured as follows:
>
>          Region 0: Memory at c1100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
> [size=128K]
>          Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
> [size=16M]
>          Region 2: Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
> [size=1G]
>          [virtual] Expansion ROM at c1000000 [disabled] [size=1M]
>
> I tried to find an answer online but I had no luck. What am I missing?
>
> Regards,
> Milton
Look at Region 2: It is located at physical (virtual physical?) address
2GB (0x80000000), thus it won't work in a machine with RAM directly
above the 2GB mark.

I don't know what would happen if that card was inserted in a physical
machine with > 2GB RAM.  Maybe there would be a "memory hole" from
0x80000000 to 0xC1120000, maybe it would get assigned different physical
addresses.

If your host machine where it is actually inserted has more than 2GB RAM,
look at the RAM and PCI memory mappings logged in /var/log/dmesg and in
the /proc/ and /sys/ file systems.

Enjoy

Jakob
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