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Use acpipci in VMs
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:35:16AM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote:
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:24:08 +0100 (CET)
> >> From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@openbsd.org>
> >
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> >> > there were some reports that vio on KVM/qemu sometimes panics with
> >> >
> >> > vq_size not power of two: 65535
> >> >
> >> > but I could never reproduce it. bluhm@ now got me a test setup where the
> >> > bsd kernel is PXE booted on qemu in 440fx mode, and there it is
> >> > reproducible.
> >> >
> >> > After some debugging it seems that seabios or ipxe maps the PCI BARs at
> >> > 0x380000000000-0x380080000000 which is outside the allowed range in
> >> > pci_init_extents(). On the other hand, in 440fx mode, qemu seems to
> >> > produce ACPI 1.x tables and there is a check in acpipci_attach() that for
> >> > ACPI < 5.x, the PCI infos from _CRS are not used. OpenBSD will then
> >> > disable the BARs and when mapping them again in vio_attach(), it will
> >> > sometimes choose adresses that do not work, reads return 0xff and writes
> >> > are ignored. I guess this is becuase the address (in my case 0xbff14000)
> >> > lies outside the PCI window of the emulated chipset.
> >> >
> >> > I have put dmesg, acpi tables and other info at
> >> > https://www.sfritsch.de/~stf/vq-panic/
> >> >
> >> > Qemu in q35 mode produces ACPI 3.x tables, so it may also be affected.
> >> >
> >> > There may be three ways to fix this:
> >> >
> >> > 1) increase the allowed range for pcimem in pci_init_extents(). This is
> >> > what the diff below does.
> >> >
> >> > 2) somehow make acpipci_attach() use the ACPI infos on qemu. I have
> >> > verified that removing the version check fixes the issue. Since removing
> >> > the version check seems to break many other systems, this would have to be
> >> > a qemu specific quirk.
> >> >
> >> > 3) try to make OpenBSD reliably map the BARs somewhere where it works. Is
> >> > there a way for OpenBSD to get the info where the PCI window is without
> >> > trusting ACPI?
> >> >
> >> > I remember at least one report of this issue on i386. Any idea how to fix
> >> > it there?
> >>
> >> Mark Patruck noticed that these issues seem to be caused by some
> >> relatively recent changes in seabios.
> >>
> >> https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/seabios@seabios.org/message/R7FOQMMYWVX577QNIA2AKUAGOZKNJIAP/
> >> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/seabios/-/commit/df9dd418b3b0e586cb208125094620fc7f90f23d
> >>
> >> A workaround seems to be to configure the VM with <= 3GB memory.
> >>
> >> The problem may become more wide-spread with 7.7, since we now default to
> >> virtio 1.x, which uses MMIO on qemu, compared to virtio 0.9 which uses PIO
> >> BARs. Therefore it would be nice to get a fix in before the release, if it
> >> is not too late already.
> >>
> >> The diff below uses acpipci / _CRS also with old ACPI versions if running
> >> on a hypervisor. I think the chance that it will break unrelated systems
> >> is low. It does not change behavior on vmd, where no acpi attaches at all.
> >>
> >> ok?
> >
> > I hate these VM quirks. Why are folks still emulating hardware from
> > the 1990's when running a modern OS?
>
> ...like vmd(8). /gasp /vomit /shudder
>
> At least our ACPI isn't broken (because it doesn't exist).
I test various VM configurations on purpose. Yes, with other qemu
settings this problem would vanish. But it is very hard for the
user to correlate a panic in driver attachment with a specific
setting in virt-manager. I had to debug this together with sf@.
I prefer working OpenBSD guests in a range of VM environments over
specific VM configuration. Of course than means more quirks in the
guest.
> > Anyway, not much we can do about that I guess. But maybe we can have
> > a bit more consistency? We already have a check to enable MSI for
> > QEMU. And since this really is a QEMU issue, maybe it would be better
> > to use a PCI_SUBSYS_ID_REG check here?
> >
> >> diff --git a/sys/arch/amd64/pci/acpipci.c b/sys/arch/amd64/pci/acpipci.c
> >> index 51cd1360383..2e3236772bb 100644
> >> --- a/sys/arch/amd64/pci/acpipci.c
> >> +++ b/sys/arch/amd64/pci/acpipci.c
> >> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ acpipci_attach(struct device *parent, struct device *self, void *aux)
> >>
> >> aml_parse_resource(&res, acpipci_parse_resources, sc);
> >>
> >> - if (sc->sc_acpi->sc_major < 5) {
> >> + if (sc->sc_acpi->sc_major < 5 && (cpu_ecxfeature & CPUIDECX_HV) == 0) {
> >> extent_destroy(sc->sc_ioex);
> >> extent_destroy(sc->sc_memex);
> >>
> >>
> >>
Use acpipci in VMs