[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 for-2.3 00/25] hw/pc: implement multiple primary busses for pc machines

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 03/10/2015 06:21 AM, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 03/09/2015 06:55 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On Mo, 2015-03-09 at 18:26 +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>> On 03/09/2015 04:19 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>
>>>>> My series is based on commit 09d219a. Try please on top of this commit.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, that works.  Going to play with that now ;)
>>> Good luck! ... and tell me what you think :)
>>> If you need any help with the command line of the pxb device, let me know,.
>>
>> First thing I've noticed:  You need to define a numa node so you can
>> pass a valid numa node to the pxb-device.  Guess that is ok as the whole
>> point of this is to assign pci devices to numa nodes.  More complete
>> test instructions would be nice though.
> Exactly, this is by design. But you can also use it without specifying the
> NUMA node...
>
> A detailed command line would be:
>
> [qemu-bin + storage options]
> -bios [seabios-dir]/out/bios.bin -L [seabios-dir]/out/
> -m 2G
> -object memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=bind,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node0
> -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0
> -object
> memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=interleave,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node1
> -numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1,memdev=ram-node1
> -device pxb-device,id=bridge1,bus=pci.0,numa_node=1,bus_nr=4 -netdev
> user,id=nd-device e1000,bus=bridge1,addr=0x4,netdev=nd
> -device pxb-device,id=bridge2,bus=pci.0,numa_node=0,bus_nr=8 -device
> e1000,bus=bridge2,addr=0x3
> -device pxb-device,id=bridge3,bus=pci.0,bus_nr=40 -drive
> if=none,id=drive0,file=[img] -device
> virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive0,scsi=off,bus=bridge3,addr=1


I replayed this patchset on top of 09d219a "acpi: update generated files" 
and got this:


qemu-system-x86_64: -object 
memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=bind,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node0: NUMA 
node binding are not supported by this QEMU
qemu-system-x86_64: -object 
memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=interleave,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node1: 
NUMA node binding are not supported by this QEMU


This is my exact command line:

/scratch/alexey/p/qemu-build/x86_x86_64/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-L /home/alexey/p/qemu/pc-bios/ \
-hda x86/fc19_24GB_x86.qcow2 \
-enable-kvm \
-kernel x86/vmlinuz-3.12.11-201.fc19.x86_64 \
-initrd x86/initramfs-3.12.11-201.fc19.x86_64.img \
-append "root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0" \
-nographic \
-nodefaults \
-chardev stdio,id=id2,signal=off,mux=on \
-device isa-serial,id=id3,chardev=id2 \
-mon id=id4,chardev=id2,mode=readline \
-m 2G \
-object memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=bind,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node0 \
-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0 \
-object 
memory-backend-ram,size=1024M,policy=interleave,host-nodes=0,id=ram-node1 \
-numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1,memdev=ram-node1 \
-device pxb-device,id=bridge1,bus=pci.0,numa_node=1,bus_nr=4 \
-netdev user,id=nd-device e1000,bus=bridge1,addr=0x4,netdev=nd \
-device pxb-device,id=bridge2,bus=pci.0,numa_node=0,bus_nr=8 \
-device e1000,bus=bridge2,addr=0x3 \
-device pxb-device,id=bridge3,bus=pci.0,bus_nr=40 \
-drive if=none,id=drive0,file=debian_lenny_powerpc_desktop.qcow2 \
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive0,scsi=off,bus=bridge3,addr=1 \


What am I missing here?


What I actually wanted to find out (instead of asking what I am doing now) 
is is this PXB device a PCI device sitting on the same PCI host bus adapter 
(1) or it is a separate PHB (2) with its own PCI domain (new XXXX in 
XXXX:00:00.0 PCI address)? I would think it is (1) but then what exactly do 
you call "A primary PCI bus" here (that's my ignorance speaking, yes  :) )? 
Thanks.



> Here you have:
>   - 2 NUMA nodes for the guest, 0 and 1. (both mapped to the same NUMA node
> in host, but you can and should put it in different host NUMA nodes)
>   - a pxb host bridge attached to NUMA 1 with an e1000 behind it
>   - a pxb host bridge attached to NUMA 0 with an e1000 behind it
>   - a pxb host bridge not attached to any NUMA with a hard drive behind it.
>
> As you can see, since you already "decide" NUMA mapping at command line, it
> is "natural" also to attach the pxbs to the NUMA nodes.
>
>>
>> Second thing:  Booting with an unpatched seabios has bad effects:
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# cat /proc/iomem
>> 00000000-000fffff : PCI Bus 0000:10
>>    00000000-00000fff : reserved
>>    00001000-0009fbff : System RAM
>>    0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
>>    000c0000-000c91ff : Video ROM
>>    000c9800-000ca1ff : Adapter ROM
>>    000ca800-000ccbff : Adapter ROM
>>    000f0000-000fffff : reserved
>>      000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
>> 00100000-3ffdffff : System RAM
>>    01000000-0174bde4 : Kernel code
>>    0174bde5-01d30cff : Kernel data
>>    01eaa000-0202afff : Kernel bss
>> 3ffe0000-3fffffff : reserved
>> fd000000-fdffffff : 0000:00:02.0
>>    fd000000-fdffffff : bochs-drm
>> febc0000-febdffff : 0000:00:03.0
>>    febc0000-febdffff : e1000
>> febf0000-febf0fff : 0000:00:02.0
>>    febf0000-febf0fff : bochs-drm
>> fec00000-fec003ff : IOAPIC 0
>> fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
>>    fed00000-fed003ff : PNP0103:00
>> fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC
>> feffc000-feffffff : reserved
>> fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
>>
>> "PCI Bus 0000:10" is bogus and "PCI Bus 0000:00" isn't there at all.
> Yes, you shouldn't use pxb if you are not using the corresponding SeaBIOS.
> However, as I understand we always attach a SeaBIOS binary with a QEMU
> release,
> so we should be OK with this.
>
> And this is the reason I wanted bios support *before* the PXB device
> implementation,
> but anyway, even if we have them in the same time, as long as the release
> has both pxb and BIOS with pxb support, is OK. (I think...)
>
> I appreciate you looking into this and if you need further assistance
> don't hesitate to mail me! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Marcel
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>    Gerd
>>
>>
>
>


-- 
Alexey