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[83.211.73.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jt14sm785393bkb.0.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52399CA2.6030701@m2r.biz> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:29:22 +0200 From: Fabio Fantoni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich References: <52397B4C02000078000F43F7@nat28.tlf.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <52397B4C02000078000F43F7@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Cc: George Dunlap , Andrew Cooper , Keir Fraser , xen-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Remove qxl support for the 4.3 release X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xen.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Il 18/09/2013 10:07, Jan Beulich ha scritto: >>>> On 16.09.13 at 16:10, Fabio Fantoni wrote: >> Il 05/07/2013 18:59, George Dunlap ha scritto: >>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Andrew Cooper >>> wrote: >>>> On 29/05/2013 08:43, Ian Campbell wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 19:09 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: >>>>>> On 28/05/2013 17:51, "Ian Jackson" wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> George Dunlap writes ("[PATCH] libxl: Remove qxl support for the 4.3 >>>>>>> release"): >>>>>>>> The qxl drivers for Windows and Linux end up calling instructions >>>>>>>> that cannot be used for MMIO at the moment. Just for the 4.3 release, >>>>>>>> remove qxl support. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This patch should be reverted as soon as the 4.4 development window opens. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The issue in question: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (XEN) emulate.c:88:d18 bad mmio size 16 >>>>>>>> (XEN) io.c:201:d18 MMIO emulation failed @ 0033:7fd2de390430: f3 0f 6f >>>>>>>> 19 41 83 e8 403 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The instruction in question is "movdqu (%rcx),%xmm3". Xen knows how >>>>>>>> to emulate it, but unfortunately %xmm3 is 16 bytes long, and the interface >>>>>>>> between Xen and qemu at the moment would appear to only allow MMIO accesses >>>>>>>> of 8 bytes. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It's too late in the release cycle to find a fix or a workaround. >>>>>>> Acked-by: Ian Jackson >>>>>> It could be plumbed through hvmemul_do_io's multi-cycle read/write logic, >>>>>> and done as two 8-byte cycles to qemu. This would avoid bloating the ioreq >>>>>> structure that communicates to qemu. >>>>> Are you proposing we do this for 4.3? I'm not sure how big that change >>>>> would be in terms of impact (just that one instruction, any 16 byte >>>>> operand?). >>>>> >>>>> Of course even if we did this for 4.3 we don't know what the next issue >>>>> will be with QXL. >>>>> >>>>> Ian. >>>> Furthermore, AVX instruction emulation would require support for 32byte >>>> operands. I don't see the multi-cycle logic scaling sensibly. >>> Andrew, Keir, Jan, does any one of you fancy taking this on for 4.4? >> Is there someone that can add full support for SSE on hvm domUs? >> Thanks for any reply. > Mind giving the attached patch a try? > > Jan > Thanks, I have tested your patch but qxl seems to have the same problem (qemu crash on domU xorg start). I not see the MMIO error on logs, what must I do to see it or any similar debug information? Tell me if I must do other specific test or you need other details. 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