[libvirt] [PATCH] Ignore virtio-mmio disks in qemuAssignDevicePCISlots()

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Wed Sep 9 07:29:51 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 09:38:44AM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Hello!
>
>> How did you manage to do that?
>
> Probably i forgot to explicitly specify that it affects ARM 'virt' machine. Before we added PCIe
>support we were able to use only virtio-mmio there. Now we can use both, because virtio-mmio support
>in qemu didn't go anywhere.
> It worked before PCIe support introduction just because qemuAssignDevicePCISlots() was never
>called.
>

OK, good that I tried it on an arm machine :)

>>  I think we are not handlind virtio-mmio addressing properly as we won't add some controller qemu
>> will then be missing.  Shouldn't that be fixed as well?
>
> Didn't understand exactly what you mean, but <address type='virtio-mmio'/> perfectly works. Even
>more, this is the default on ARM for backwards compatibility, as we decided before. virtio-mmio is
>assigned either manually or automatically for certain device kinds by
>qemuDomainAssignARMVirtioMMIOAddresses(). After it, qemuDomainAssignPCIAddresses() is called, which
>before PCIe introduction just did nothing. Now it tries to assign PCI addresses to anything which
>still doesn't have addresses at all. For the majority of devices it checks only for info.type !=
>VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_NONE, but for VirtIO disks it is a bit more picky for some reason.
>
> The problem is easy to reproduce with virt-manager. Just try to add a disk (or modify existing
>disk) and specify bus = virtio. By default, since we now have PCIe, it will add virtio-scsi disk on
>top of SCSI controller, so the default works flawlessly. Because virtio-scsi != virtio-block.
>

So that's what I was missing.  virt-manager probably automatically
adds the controller, but libvirt itself doesn't.  That's what I meant
that we should probably add that too (see *Add*Maybe() functions), but
that's not to be done in this patch, though.

>>  And isn't virtio-mmio only supported on some platforms?
>
> Yes. But for platforms where virtio-mmio is not supported we can not get
>VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_VIRTIO_MMIO addresses, because
>qemuDomainAssignARMVirtioMMIOAddresses() will not do anything, because QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_MMIO
>will not be set.
>

Well, without your patch, I get a clear message for non-arm
(e.g. x86_64) machine that says "virtio disk cannot have an address of
type 'virtio-mmio'" (even though I have en_GB locale in which the
string should be very badly translated, but that's another problem).
And that is what we should keep for architectures without virtio-mmio
support, shouldn't we?


>Kind regards,
>Pavel Fedin
>Expert Engineer
>Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
>
>
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