On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:51:50AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:54:47AM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:

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Il 16/12/2013 16:04, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ha scritto:

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The user has the option of disabling the platform driver:
00:02.0 Unassigned class [ff80]: XenSource, Inc. Xen Platform Device (rev 01)

which is used to unplug the emulated drivers (IDE, Realtek 8169, etc)
and allow the PV drivers to take over. If the user wishes
to disable that they can set:

  xen_platform_pci=0
  (in the guest config file)

or
  xen_emul_unplug=never
  (on the Linux command line)

except it does not work properly. The PV drivers still try to
load and since the Xen platform driver is not run - and it
has not initialized the grant tables, most of the PV drivers
stumble upon:

input: Xen Virtual Keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input5
input: Xen Virtual Pointer as /devices/virtual/input/input6M
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /home/konrad/ssd/konrad/linux/drivers/xen/grant-table.c:1206!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: xen_kbdfront(+) xenfs xen_privcmd
CPU: 6 PID: 1389 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1upstream-00021-ga6c892b-dirty #1
Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.4-unstable 11/26/2013
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813ddc40>]  [<ffffffff813ddc40>] get_free_entries+0x2e0/0x300
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8150d9a3>] ? evdev_connect+0x1e3/0x240
 [<ffffffff813ddd0e>] gnttab_grant_foreign_access+0x2e/0x70
 [<ffffffffa0010081>] xenkbd_connect_backend+0x41/0x290 [xen_kbdfront]
 [<ffffffffa0010a12>] xenkbd_probe+0x2f2/0x324 [xen_kbdfront]
 [<ffffffff813e5757>] xenbus_dev_probe+0x77/0x130
 [<ffffffff813e7217>] xenbus_frontend_dev_probe+0x47/0x50
 [<ffffffff8145e9a9>] driver_probe_device+0x89/0x230
 [<ffffffff8145ebeb>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8145eb50>] ? driver_probe_device+0x230/0x230
 [<ffffffff8145eb50>] ? driver_probe_device+0x230/0x230
 [<ffffffff8145cf1c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8145e7d9>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20
 [<ffffffff8145e260>] bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x220
 [<ffffffff8145f1ff>] driver_register+0x5f/0xf0
 [<ffffffff813e55c5>] xenbus_register_driver_common+0x15/0x20
 [<ffffffff813e76b3>] xenbus_register_frontend+0x23/0x40
 [<ffffffffa0015000>] ? 0xffffffffa0014fff
 [<ffffffffa001502b>] xenkbd_init+0x2b/0x1000 [xen_kbdfront]
 [<ffffffff81002049>] do_one_initcall+0x49/0x170

.. snip..

which is hardly nice. This patch fixes this by having each
PV driver check for:
 - if running in PV, then it is fine to execute (as that is their
   native environment).
 - if running in HVM, check if user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=never',
   in which case bail out and don't load any PV drivers.
 - if running in HVM, and if PCI device 5853:0001 (xen_platform_pci)
   does not exist, then bail out and not load PV drivers.
 - (v2) if running in HVM, and if the user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=disks',
   then bail out for all PV devices _except_ the block one.
   Ditto for the network one ('nics').
 - (v2) if running in HVM, and if the user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary'
   then load block PV driver, and also setup the legacy IDE paths.
   In (v3) make it actually load PV drivers.

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it
Reported-by: Anthony PERARD <redacted>
Reported-by: Fabio Fantoni <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <redacted>
[v2: Add extra logic to handle the myrid ways 'xen_emul_unplug'
can be used per Ian and Stefano suggestion]
[v3: Make the unnecessary case work properly]
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <redacted>

I tested this patch with all possible cases that I know, no crash or
calltrace found.

I don't understand the utility of 'xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary' but
probably it is working correctly, it shows both pv and not pv for
blocks and nics.

Great!

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About 'xen_emul_unplug=disks' and 'xen_emul_unplug=nics' probably
there is something wrong.
With 'xen_emul_unplug=nics' it shows pv nic (this should be correct)
and about disks it shows the same disk twice, as pv and not pv (xvda
and sda) with different device number.

Good.

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With 'xen_emul_unplug=disks' it shows pv block (this should be
correct) and it seems to show the pv nic too (this should be wrong).

Correct. You should see only the PV disk and all other PV devices
should not function. Let me dig in this and see whether there is
another bug. Thank you!

That is because 'disks' is incorrect. It should have been 'ide-disks'

[    0.000000] unrecognised option 'disks' in parameter 'xen_emul_unplug'

With the 'ide-disks' it should work. I will update the description to
mention 'ide-disks' instead of 'disks'. Thank you for finding this!