Hi everyone,
I'm having a strange problem passing an mlx4 device into a kvm guest.
The device in question is:
05:00.0 InfiniBand [0c06]: Mellanox Technologies MT26428 [ConnectX
VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE] [15b3:673c] (rev b0)
running the latest (I believe) FW version 2.9.1000. The host system
is a fairly standard dual-socket Xeon 5600 system, perhaps a tiny bit
unusual in that it is a dual Tylersburg motherboard. I'm using
QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0 Debian 1.0+dfsg-3),
Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
and
Linux pure-driver3 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC
2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(the latest Debian testing versions). The symptom of the problem is
that when the mlx4_core driver starts, I get normal output like
mlx4_core 0000:00:04.0: FW version 2.9.1000 (cmd intf rev 3), max
commands 16
mlx4_core 0000:00:04.0: Catastrophic error buffer at 0x1f020, size
0x10, BAR 0
mlx4_core 0000:00:04.0: FW size 385 KB
up until the driver tries to enable interrupts, when I get a long
stream of
Completion event for bogus CQ 00000000
and then it gives up because the NOP command interrupt test
fails.
Apparently what happens is that the SW2HW_EQ firmware command succeeds
as far as the driver is concerned, but the EQ buffer is left as all
0s, so the driver thinks every entry is a completion event (for CQN 0).
Several things are weird here: first, the command interface including
DMA from the device is definitely working since we get a
reasonable-looking response for the query FW command etc, so I'm not
sure what is different about the SW2HW_EQ command (it is the first
thing that uses the MTT I guess, so maybe there is a problem setting
that up?) The guest is running 2.6.39, so there is no SR-IOV support
in the mlx4 driver (but I am passing the only physical function of a
non-virtualized device through, so I hope that isn't needed -- the
device shouldn't know it's talking to a guest at all)
Second, passing through another device on the same system:
86:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10
Gigabit TN Network Connection [8086:151c] (rev 01)
works fine, including MSI-X interrupts, running traffic works, etc.
Finally, the craziest thing is that this setup was working a week or
so ago, but there may have been BIOS, kernel and kvm updates since
then (my guest image is unchanged at least ;).
Anyone have any idea what might be going on or how to debug this
further? Unfortunately I don't have a PCIe analyzer handy to get a
better idea of what's happening with the device...
Thanks,
Roland
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