Re: Ping: [PATCH] radeon: avoid boot hang in Xen Dom0

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>>> On 04.11.16 at 15:32, <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 13.09.16 at 17:54,  wrote:
>>> While a hard hang in atom_asic_init() likely points at a deeper problem
>>> in the driver, restore the capability to boot a Xen Dom0 by simply
>>> avoiding the call there: Other than for Xen DomU, Dom0 owning a device
>>> does not really mean is has got passed through to it.
>>>
>>> In case it is of interest for further investigation, lspci for the
>>> offending device says:
>>>
>>> ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] [1002:5954]
>>>
>>> Fixes: 05082b8bbd "drm/radeon: fix asic initialization for virtualized environments"
>>
>> I may have overlooked a different fix dealing with the problem; if
>> so, I'd appreciate that fix being pointed out.
> 
> Already fixed:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88 
> 4031f0aacf57dad1575f96714efc80de9b19cc

Hmm, that indeed should make the immediate problem go away.
Nevertheless I do think that Xen Dom0 should be treated just
like native here. Only DomU should be forced through that extra
path.

I did also notice that the equivalent function under amdgpu/ has
gone away again during the 4.9 merge window...

Jan

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