On Monday, January 7, 2019 9:22:59 PM CET James Prestwood wrote: > On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 21:00 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Monday, January 7, 2019 7:53:49 PM CET James Prestwood wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 19:24 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 7, 2019 6:55:48 PM CET James Prestwood wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am passing through PCI wireless adapters into a qemu VM and I > > > > > am > > > > > seeing my host machine lock up/freeze when starting qemu if I > > > > > try > > > > > and > > > > > pass through an Atheros AR5B22 PCI card. After reboot I don't > > > > > see > > > > > anything suspicious in /var/log/kern.log, although I don't > > > > > really > > > > > know > > > > > what to look for either (or maybe there is another log to look > > > > > at?). I > > > > > have successfully done PCI passthrough with both an Intel 7260 > > > > > and > > > > > 3160. Its whenever I add the Atheros card into the mix (or by > > > > > itself) I > > > > > get this lockup when starting the VM. > > > > > > > > > > I have enabled the Ath9k drivers when building the kernel (same > > > > > as > > > > > with > > > > > Intel cards). This page I read online ( > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k) > > > > > said the Ath9k cards don't require firmware like the Intel > > > > > cards > > > > > do, so > > > > > I have not added any firmware binaries for this card into the > > > > > kernel > > > > > build. I also tried turning on the Ath9k debugging but saw no > > > > > additional prints in kern.log. > > > > > > > > > > With PCI passthrough there is some configuration required, like > > > > > substituting the drivers for the vfio-pci driver on the host > > > > > machine, > > > > > so it could be completely unrelated to the Ath9k driver. Still, > > > > > I > > > > > was > > > > > hoping that someone more knowledgeable than me may know whats > > > > > going > > > > > on, > > > > > or at least where to look. The fact that the Intel cards work > > > > > fine > > > > > was > > > > > what made me think it could be a driver problem. > > > > > > > > > > I am more or less following this guide (except with wifi > > > > > adapters > > > > > rather than GPU): > > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF > > > > > > > > > > > > > You could be a victim of: > > > > > > > > > /* > > > > > * Some Atheros AR9xxx and QCA988x chips do not behave after a > > > > > bus > > > > > reset. > > > > > * The device will throw a Link Down error on AER-capable > > > > > systems > > > > > and > > > > > * regardless of AER, config space of the device is never > > > > > accessible > > > > > again > > > > > * and typically causes the system to hang or reset when access > > > > > is > > > > > attempted. > > > > > * http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg34797.html > > > > > */ > > > > > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0030, > > > > > quirk_no_bus_reset); > > > > > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0032, > > > > > quirk_no_bus_reset); > > > > > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x003c, > > > > > quirk_no_bus_reset); > > > > > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0033, > > > > > quirk_no_bus_reset); > > > > > > Adding this to my guest kernel and rebuilding didn't change > > > anything: > > > > > > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, 0x0034, > > > quirk_no_bus_reset); > > > > > > But would I need to make this change on the host kernel as well? > > > > It can matter. I have a mainboard that does a bus reset before > > booting the kernel and as a result I was never able to get a > > ath10k/ath9k card working on the machine. The kernel would just > > get suck either during decompressing or shortly after in random > > places. It had no issues with intel or broadcom cards. > > Looks like I did indeed need the change in the host kernel! No lockup > and I see the Ath9k inside the VM. Thanks! > > Is this something that should be upstreamed (adding the vendor ID to > that list)? If so do you know the list by chance? A quick google it > would seem https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/list/ is the > right place? That. Or if you already have the patch, you could just run it through the scripts/get_maintainer.pl [0] script
