Persistent Failed to attach device following transient Failed to read product/vendor ID

[Michal Prívozník]

On 7/11/22 20:14, Pighin, Anthony (Nokia - CA/Ottawa) wrote:
> I'm attempting to solve the issue reported here:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/345
> 
> Hoping the originator of virHostdevDeleteMissingPCIDevices() will be able to comment, as I am still trying to reproduce the issue with additional debug in place.
> 
> diff --git a/src/hypervisor/virhostdev.c b/src/hypervisor/virhostdev.c
> index c0ce867596..d43354963e 100644
> --- a/src/hypervisor/virhostdev.c
> +++ b/src/hypervisor/virhostdev.c
> @@ -1101,11 +1101,11 @@ virHostdevReAttachPCIDevices(virHostdevManager *mgr,
>          VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to allocate PCI device list: %s"),
>                    virGetLastErrorMessage());
>          virResetLastError();
> -        return;
>      }
> -
> -    virHostdevReAttachPCIDevicesImpl(mgr, drv_name, dom_name, pcidevs,
> -                                     hostdevs, nhostdevs);
> +    else {
> +        virHostdevReAttachPCIDevicesImpl(mgr, drv_name, dom_name, pcidevs,
> +                                        hostdevs, nhostdevs);
> +    }
> 
>      /* Handle the case where PCI devices from the host went missing
>       * during the domain lifetime */
> 

Yeah, this looks like a correct fix, but I'm trying to understand the
original problem more. In the gilab issue you mention 'link bounce' - do
you mean PCIe link?

Michal