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Re: Getting ACRN to work

Dubravko Moravski | Exor Embedded S.r.l. <dubravko.moravski@...>
 

Hi everyone,

I confirm my ACRN sources did include 65ed6c3529de8b3f3d890e95a7d816afba7bf379 commit. I've tried reverting it - due to the subsequent modifications it wasn't trivial but in the end I've managed - the behavior however remained identical, "PCIe link lost". If you have any other ideas for me to try, please let me know.

Regarding the invisible mouse pointer, I've found mouse acceleration settings in gnome-tweaks, but they relate only to the acceleration of the movement of the mouse pointer. I've checked all the other tweak pages, still I couldn't find anything related to hardware acceleration. If you have any other ideas...

Unfortunately I'm also having issues launching User OS. I've followed instructions from here: https://projectacrn.github.io/latest/tutorials/kbl-nuc-sdc.html#kbl-nuc-sdc, Set up Reference User VM chapter. Setting it up goes well, but in the end it fails to launch:
clear@clr-sos-guest~/work/uos $ sudo ./launch_uos.sh
cpu1 online=1
cpu2 online=1
cpu3 online=1
cat: '/sys/class/net/e*/address': No such file or directory
passed gvt-g optargs low_gm 64, high_gm 448, fence 8
SW_LOAD: get ovmf path /usr/share/acrn/bios/OVMF.fd, size 0x200000
pm by vuart node-index = 0
logger: name=console, level=4
logger: name=kmsg, level=3
logger: name=disk, level=5
vm_create: vm1
VHM api version 1.0
vm_setup_memory: size=0x80000000
open hugetlbfs file /run/hugepage/acrn/huge_lv1/vm1/D279543825D611E8864ECB7A18B34643
open hugetlbfs file /run/hugepage/acrn/huge_lv2/vm1/D279543825D611E8864ECB7A18B34643
level 0 free/need pages:0/1 page size:0x200000
level 1 free/need pages:0/2 page size:0x40000000
to reserve more free pages:
to reserve pages (+orig 0): echo 2 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
to reserve pages (+orig 0): echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
now enough free pages are reserved!

try to setup hugepage with:
        level 0 - lowmem 0x0, biosmem 0x200000, highmem 0x0
        level 1 - lowmem 0x80000000, biosmem 0x0, highmem 0x0
total_size 0x180000000

mmap ptr 0x0x7fdbbc4e2000 -> baseaddr 0x0x7fdbc0000000
mmap 0x80000000@0x7fdbc0000000
touch 2 pages with pagesz 0x40000000
mmap 0x200000@0x7fdcbfe00000
touch 1 pages with pagesz 0x200000

really setup hugepage with:
        level 0 - lowmem 0x0, biosmem 0x200000, highmem 0x0
        level 1 - lowmem 0x80000000, biosmem 0x0, highmem 0x0
vm_init_vdevs
polling 38...
Listening 38...
pci init hostbridge
pci init lpc
pci init pci-gvt
GVT: open /sys/kernel/gvt/control/create_gvt_instance failed
GVT: init failed
pci pci-gvt init failed
mngr_client_new: Failed to accept from fd 38, err: Invalid argument
Stop listening 38...
Stop polling 38...
Unable to init vdev (2)
I've used the regular ACRN to test it (without reverted PCIe-related commits). I might have missed some required step in configuring ACRN or UOS, I'll re-check what I have done.

Best regards,
Dubravko



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Subject: Re: [acrn-users] Getting ACRN to work
 

Hi Dubravko,

 

I learned from Fei that one of his patch(merged, for security) might impact PCIe devices in SOS, could you please help check if your HV include it?

 

commit 65ed6c3529de8b3f3d890e95a7d816afba7bf379

Author: Li Fei1 <fei1.li@...>

Date:   Thu Dec 5 22:51:06 2019 +0800

 

    hv: vpci: trap PCIe ECAM access for SOS

 

    SOS will use PCIe ECAM access PCIe external configuration space. HV should trap this

    access for security(Now pre-launched VM doesn't want to support PCI ECAM; post-launched

    VM trap PCIe ECAM access in DM).

    Besides, update PCIe MMCONFIG region to be owned by hypervisor and expose and pass through

    platform hide PCI devices by BIOS to SOS.

 

    Tracked-On: #3475

    Signed-off-by: Li Fei1 <fei1.li@...>

 

You can have a quick try to revert it firstly if it is included.

 

Thanks

shuo

From: acrn-users@... <acrn-users@...> On Behalf Of Dubravko Moravski | Exor Embedded S.r.l.
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 02:19
To: acrn-users@...
Subject: Re: [acrn-users] Getting ACRN to work

 

Hi Zide,

 

Thank you for explaining all the kernel and Ubuntu options. It looks like all the use cases we are interested in are covered.

 

I've got a replacement board and I'm continuing with ACRN. I've followed your instructions regarding rebuilding the kernel, in which I've enabled the Intel igb network driver we need for the I211 chip.
The new kernel mostly works, however igb driver doesn't (and we really need the network):

clear@clr-sos-guest~/work/acrn-kernel $ cat ../../dmesg_bad.txt | grep igb

[    3.708554] calling  igb_init_module+0x0/0x4d @ 1

[    3.709199] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 5.4.0-k

[    3.710159] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.

[    3.802746] igb 0000:04:00.0 0000:04:00.0 (uninitialized): PCIe link lost

[    4.120516] igb 0000:04:00.0: PHY reset is blocked due to SOL/IDER session.

[    7.504456] igb 0000:04:00.0: Invalid MAC Address

[    7.505779] igb: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -5

[    7.507585] initcall igb_init_module+0x0/0x4d returned 0 after 3709354 usecs

 

The "PCIe link lost" message originates in igb_main.c, approx line 740:

u32 igb_rd32(struct e1000_hw *hw, u32 reg)

{

        struct igb_adapter *igb = container_of(hw, struct igb_adapter, hw);

        u8 __iomem *hw_addr = READ_ONCE(hw->hw_addr);

        u32 value = 0;

 

        if (E1000_REMOVED(hw_addr))

                return ~value;

 

        value = readl(&hw_addr[reg]);

 

        /* reads should not return all F's */

        if (!(~value) && (!reg || !(~readl(hw_addr)))) {

                struct net_device *netdev = igb->netdev;

                hw->hw_addr = NULL;

                netdev_err(netdev, "PCIe link lost\n");

        }

 

        return value;

}

I think readl() for PCIe devices is basically a single PCIe transfer; in other words it's already the lowest possible level, looking from the software side of things, so it doesn't look like I could do much debugging here.

 

In regular Clear Linux, the driver consistently works and there are never any link issues:

clear@clr-sos-guest~ $ sudo dmesg | grep -i igb

Password:

[    4.473282] calling  igb_init_module+0x0/0x1000 [igb] @ 317

[    4.473306] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 5.6.0-k

[    4.473307] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.

[    4.519304] igb 0000:04:00.0: added PHC on eth0

[    4.519307] igb 0000:04:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection

[    4.519310] igb 0000:04:00.0: eth0: (PCIe:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:30:d8:05:55:84

[    4.519314] igb 0000:04:00.0: eth0: PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF

[    4.519316] igb 0000:04:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 2 rx queue(s), 2 tx queue(s)

[    4.519418] initcall igb_init_module+0x0/0x1000 [igb] returned 0 after 33714 usecs

[    5.390826] igb 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: renamed from eth0

[    8.766862] igb 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: igb: enp4s0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX

So is there some setting in ACRN that can affect PCIe communication, that I need to adjust for (external) PCIe devices?

 

Also with my ACRN-kernel, the mouse works but the cursor is invisible. In regular Clear Linux with 'native' kernel, with the same file system and GUI and system settings, the mouse works and the cursor is visible.

 

Best regards,

Dubravko
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