Re: [PATCH v9] xen/pt: reserve PCI slot 2 for Intel igd-passthru

[Chuck Zmudzinski]

On 1/20/2023 4:34 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> > Intel specifies that the Intel IGD must occupy slot 2 on the PCI bus,
> > as noted in docs/igd-assign.txt in the Qemu source code.
> > 
> > Currently, when the xl toolstack is used to configure a Xen HVM guest with
> > Intel IGD passthrough to the guest with the Qemu upstream device model,
> > a Qemu emulated PCI device will occupy slot 2 and the Intel IGD will occupy
> > a different slot. This problem often prevents the guest from booting.
> > 
> > The only available workaround is not good: Configure Xen HVM guests to use
> > the old and no longer maintained Qemu traditional device model available
> > from xenbits.xen.org which does reserve slot 2 for the Intel IGD.
> > 
> > To implement this feature in the Qemu upstream device model for Xen HVM
> > guests, introduce the following new functions, types, and macros:
> > 
> > * XEN_PT_DEVICE_CLASS declaration, based on the existing TYPE_XEN_PT_DEVICE
> > * XEN_PT_DEVICE_GET_CLASS macro helper function for XEN_PT_DEVICE_CLASS
> > * typedef XenPTQdevRealize function pointer
> > * XEN_PCI_IGD_SLOT_MASK, the value of slot_reserved_mask to reserve slot 2
> > * xen_igd_reserve_slot and xen_igd_clear_slot functions
> > 
> > Michael Tsirkin:
> > * Introduce XEN_PCI_IGD_DOMAIN, XEN_PCI_IGD_BUS, XEN_PCI_IGD_DEV, and
> >   XEN_PCI_IGD_FN - use them to compute the value of XEN_PCI_IGD_SLOT_MASK
> > 
> > The new xen_igd_reserve_slot function uses the existing slot_reserved_mask
> > member of PCIBus to reserve PCI slot 2 for Xen HVM guests configured using
> > the xl toolstack with the gfx_passthru option enabled, which sets the
> > igd-passthru=on option to Qemu for the Xen HVM machine type.
> > 
> > The new xen_igd_reserve_slot function also needs to be implemented in
> > hw/xen/xen_pt_stub.c to prevent FTBFS during the link stage for the case
> > when Qemu is configured with --enable-xen and --disable-xen-pci-passthrough,
> > in which case it does nothing.
> > 
> > The new xen_igd_clear_slot function overrides qdev->realize of the parent
> > PCI device class to enable the Intel IGD to occupy slot 2 on the PCI bus
> > since slot 2 was reserved by xen_igd_reserve_slot when the PCI bus was
> > created in hw/i386/pc_piix.c for the case when igd-passthru=on.
> > 
> > Move the call to xen_host_pci_device_get, and the associated error
> > handling, from xen_pt_realize to the new xen_igd_clear_slot function to
> > initialize the device class and vendor values which enables the checks for
> > the Intel IGD to succeed. The verification that the host device is an
> > Intel IGD to be passed through is done by checking the domain, bus, slot,
> > and function values as well as by checking that gfx_passthru is enabled,
> > the device class is VGA, and the device vendor in Intel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@aol.com>
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> The approach looks OK in principle to me. I only have one question: for
> other PCI devices (not Intel IGD), where is xen_host_pci_device_get
> called now?
>
> It looks like that xen_igd_reserve_slot would return without setting
> slot_reserved_mask, hence xen_igd_clear_slot would also return without
> calling xen_host_pci_device_get. And xen_pt_realize doesn't call
> xen_host_pci_device_get any longer.
>
> Am I missing something?

Thanks for catching this. With v9 guest creation fails when the bit in
slot_reserved_mask that reserves slot 2 is not set.

It fails because v9 not only fails to call xen_host_pci_device_get when the
bit in slot_reserved_mask that reserves slot 2 is not set, it also does not
call xpdc->pci_qdev_realize either. So I uploaded v10 to fix that here:

d473914c4d2dc38ae87dca4b898d75b44751c9cb.1674297794.git.brchuckz@aol.com/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/d473914c4d2dc38ae87dca4b898d75b44751c9cb.1674297794.git.brchuckz@aol.com/

Tests with v10 show it is now working for all cases.

Thanks,

Chuck