Re: PCI passthrough resource remapping

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On 30.03.2010, at 01:00, Kenni Lund wrote:

> 2010/3/29 Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>:
>> 
>> On 29.03.2010, at 19:23, Kenni Lund wrote:
>> 
>>>>> 2010/1/9 Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 09.01.2010, at 03:45, Ryan C. Underwood wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have a multifunction PCI device that I'd like to pass through to KVM.
>>>>>>> In order to do that, I'm reading that the PCI memory region must be
>>>>>>> 4K-page
>>>>>>> aligned and the PCI memory resources itself must also be exact multiples
>>>>>>> of 4K pages.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have added the following on my kernel command line:
>>>>>>> reassign_resources reassigndev=08:09.0,08:09.1,08:09.2,08:09.3,08:09.4
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> But I don't know if it has any effect.  The resources are still not
>>>>>>> sized in 4K pages.  Also, this seems to screw up the last device.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I submitted a patch to qemu-kvm recently that got rid of that limitation.
>>>>>> Please try out if the current git head works for you.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Alex--
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.32.10 with qemu-kvm  0.12.3 and I still
>>>>> get the following error when trying to pass through a dedicated PCI
>>>>> USB card:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Unable to assign device: PCI region 0 at address 0xe9403000 has size
>>>>> 0x100,  which is not a multiple of 4K
>>>>> Error initializing device pci-assign"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Didn't the above patch make it into qemu-kvm? I don't know why, but I
>>>>> was under the impression that this was fixed when I upgraded to
>>>>> qemu-kvm 0.12.3.
>>>>> 
>>>> It's only in qemu-kvm.git. Maybe it should go into qemu-kvm-0.12.4 if there
>>>> is one
>>> 
>>> That would be highly appriciated...with the current USB support in
>>> QEMU, PCI passthrough is the only way to get USB 2.0 support. I've
>>> bought two dedicated PCI USB cards for this, but none of them works
>>> due to the above limitation.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps a developer can comment on this? Are there any plans on
>>> including this patch in the stable releases in the near future?
>> 
>> Please first try out to build the current git snapshot of qemu-kvm. If it works properly for you then I agree that we should take this into 0.12-stable.
>> 
>> I wrote the support for a card that still didn't work even with this patch. So having someone say it makes things work for him is definitely a must :-).
> 
> Sure, I have compiled the current git snapshot and performed some
> tests...It's at least mostly working, so I'm a bit unsure if this is a
> bug related to this or to something else.

Chris, any idea on this? Looks like something's going wrong with function assignment.


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