[vfio-users] intel_iommu=on and aacraid / Adaptec 3805
A de Beus
anthony.debeus at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 14:01:39 UTC 2016
One can only imagine that the driver for this particular piece of hardware uses the iommu. The only other case I know of is the AMD cards with their proprietary driver, which is incompatible with activating iommu in the bios. Here the conflict must be in the aacraid driver. If I were smarter, I'd read the source of the driver. I suppose you could file a bug report.
> On Jul 10, 2016, at 11:17 AM, David <david283 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have run into a strange problem, while setting up my Fedora 24 box for KVM, i noticed that my raid array stopped showing as an available drive. After a lot of troubleshooting and reinstalling linux to this PC 2 more times, i have narrowed it down to one setting in my GRUB config. intel_iommu=on
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> Just taking that one setting out and rebuilding my grub2-efi.cfg will make the array readable again. When IOMMU is on, the system can see that there is a raid card and array, but it lists the partition table as unknown. It also will not successfully create a new GPT partition table on the array. With IOMMU off, it can read the partition table and partition fine, read and write data, and everything works fine.
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> My raid is 4 1TB disks in Raid 10e, GPT partition formatted NTFS.
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> $ lspci -v -s 03:0e.0
> 03:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID
> Subsystem: Adaptec 3805
> Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 57
> Memory at fa600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
> Expansion ROM at fa800000 [disabled] [size=256K]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
> Kernel driver in use: aacraid
> Kernel modules: aacraid
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> $ lsblk -f
> NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
> sda
> ├─sda1 vfat efi 9E87-0ECF
> ├─sda2 ext4 boot 4f8d2664-8fc0-4779-ac18-6f0c06152d27
> └─sda3 crypto_LUKS ccee7bd2-4dce-4966-addb-bba6194ade93
> sdb
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> * with IOMMU on, lsblk -f shows that it sees SDB, but with no file system or label.
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> $ uname -r
> 4.6.3-300.fc24.x86_64
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> Screen shot of gnome Disks =
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> <Screenshot from 2016-07-10 12-49-30.png>
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> --
> David
> david283 at gmail.com
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