[libvirt] [PATCH v2] virt-host-validate: Fix warning for IOMMU detection on PPC
John Ferlan
jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 24 22:44:08 UTC 2017
On 08/24/2017 02:52 AM, Nitesh Konkar wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> In case of PPC, IOMMU in the host kernel either has it or not compiled in.
> The /sys/kernel/iommu_groups check is good enough to verify if it was
> compiled with the kernel or not.
>
> If not, then we can have a ppc specific message there:
>
>
> virHostMsgCheck(hvname, "%s", _("if IOMMU is enabled by kernel"));
> if (sb.st_nlink <= 2) {
> if(!isPPC) {
> virHostMsgFail(level,
> "IOMMU appears to be disabled in kernel. "
> "Add %s to kernel cmdline arguments", bootarg);
> } else {
> virHostMsgFail(level,
> "IOMMU capability not compiled into kernel. ");
>
> }
> return -1;
> }
> virHostMsgPass();
> return 0;
>
Should I say don't top post please...
Anyway, I've updated the commit message, added the extra check/error
message and pushed the patch upstream
Tks,
John
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:06 PM, John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com
> <mailto:jferlan at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 08/17/2017 09:48 AM, Nitesh Konkar wrote:
> > Fix the warning generated on PPC by virt-host-validate
> > for IOMMU
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12 at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> <mailto:nitkon12 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>>
> > ---
> > tools/virt-host-validate-common.c | 10 +++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/virt-host-validate-common.c
> b/tools/virt-host-validate-common.c
> > index 6faed04..51fa8c0 100644
> > --- a/tools/virt-host-validate-common.c
> > +++ b/tools/virt-host-validate-common.c
> > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> > #include "virfile.h"
> > #include "virt-host-validate-common.h"
> > #include "virstring.h"
> > +#include "virarch.h"
> >
> > #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NONE
> >
> > @@ -442,8 +443,7 @@ int virHostValidateIOMMU(const char *hvname,
> > virBitmapPtr flags;
> > struct stat sb;
> > const char *bootarg = NULL;
> > - bool isAMD = false, isIntel = false;
> > -
> > + bool isAMD = false, isIntel = false, isPPC = false;
> > flags = virHostValidateGetCPUFlags();
> >
> > if (flags && virBitmapIsBitSet(flags,
> VIR_HOST_VALIDATE_CPU_FLAG_VMX))
> > @@ -453,9 +453,10 @@ int virHostValidateIOMMU(const char *hvname,
> >
> > virBitmapFree(flags);
> >
> > - virHostMsgCheck(hvname, "%s", _("for device assignment IOMMU
> support"));
> > + isPPC = ARCH_IS_PPC64(virArchFromHost());
> >
> > if (isIntel) {
> > + virHostMsgCheck(hvname, "%s", _("for device assignment
> IOMMU support"));
> > if (access("/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DMAR", F_OK) == 0) {
> > virHostMsgPass();
> > bootarg = "intel_iommu=on";
> > @@ -467,6 +468,7 @@ int virHostValidateIOMMU(const char *hvname,
> > return -1;
> > }
> > } else if (isAMD) {
> > + virHostMsgCheck(hvname, "%s", _("for device assignment
> IOMMU support"));
> > if (access("/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/IVRS", F_OK) == 0) {
> > virHostMsgPass();
> > bootarg = "iommu=pt iommu=1";
> > @@ -477,6 +479,8 @@ int virHostValidateIOMMU(const char *hvname,
> > "hardware platform");
> > return -1;
> > }
> > + } else if (isPPC) {
> > + /* Empty Block */
>
> So there's nothing to check at all? Perhaps elaborate in the commit
> message...
>
>
> Still what happens when @bootarg isn't populated and by chance we fall
> into the:
>
> if (sb.st_nlink <= 2) {
> }
>
> condition below here? You'll get "Add <nil>..."
>
> Or can we not get to that code? I'm not PPC and IOMMU aware, so I'm
> asking...
>
> Tks,
>
> John
>
> > } else {
> > virHostMsgFail(level,
> > "Unknown if this platform has IOMMU support");
> >
>
>
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