From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, john.mcnamara@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] doc: add VFIO troubleshooting section
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:29:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d65d01-54b9-8077-8927-1a33322f12df@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75243d22963555e1460b243df6bb12efd146abf4.1605785484.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
On 19/11/2020 11:32, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> There are common problems with VFIO that get asked over and over on the
> mailing list. Document common problems with VFIO and how to fix them or
> at least figure out what went wrong.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> index 9c61850dbb..f3c06c68d1 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> @@ -276,3 +276,46 @@ To restore device ``82:00.0`` to its original kernel binding:
> .. code-block:: console
>
> ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=ixgbe 82:00.0
> +
> +Troubleshooting VFIO
> +--------------------
> +
> +In certain situations, using ``dpdk-devbind.py`` script to bing a device to VFIO
> +driver may fail. The first place to check is the kernel messages:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> + # dmesg | tail
> + ...
> + [ 1297.875090] vfio-pci: probe of 0000:31:00.0 failed with error -22
> + ...
> +
> +In most cases, the ``error -22`` indicates that the VFIO subsystem couldn't be
> +enabled because there is no IOMMU support. To check whether the kernel has been
> +booted with correct parameters, one can check the kernel command-line:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> + cat /proc/cmdline
> +
> +Please refer to earlier sections on how to configure kernel parameters correctly
> +for your system.
> +
> +If the kernel is configured correctly, one also has to make sure that the BIOS
> +configuration has virtualization features (such as Intel® VT-d). There is no
> +standard way to check if the platform is configured correctly, so please check
> +with your platform documentation to see if it has such features, and how to
> +enable them.
> +
> +In certain distributions, default kernel configuration is such that the no-IOMMU
> +mode is disabled altogether at compile time. This can be checked in the boot
> +configuration of your system:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> + # cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) | grep NOIOMMU
> + # CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU is not set
> +
> +If ``CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU`` is not enabled in the kernel configuration, VFIO
> +driver will not support the no-IOMMU mode, and other alternatives (such as UIO
> +drivers) will have to be used.
>
Good to have some debug hints and it avoids a backport ;-)
With Bruce's s/bing/bind/
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 18:09 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] doc: move VFIO driver to be first Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-10 18:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] doc: reword VFIO and UIO Linux GSG section Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-10 18:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] doc: add VFIO no-IOMMU " Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-10 18:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] doc: add VFIO troubleshooting section Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-18 15:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] doc: move VFIO driver to be first Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-18 18:24 ` David Marchand
2020-11-19 11:04 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-11-19 11:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-23 17:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-19 11:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] doc: reword VFIO and UIO Linux GSG section Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-19 11:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] doc: add VFIO no-IOMMU " Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-27 15:47 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-19 11:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] doc: add VFIO troubleshooting section Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-27 15:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-27 15:57 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-11-27 15:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-27 16:29 ` Kevin Traynor [this message]
2020-11-27 17:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-18 15:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] doc: reword VFIO and UIO Linux GSG section Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-18 15:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] doc: add VFIO no-IOMMU " Anatoly Burakov
2020-11-18 15:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] doc: add VFIO troubleshooting section Anatoly Burakov
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