An NVMe device configured in static identity mapping should also cause
this error when removed and rescanned. Essentially, a device that does
a DMA when its driver inits, or one that you can force a DMA from.



On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:28 AM James Dong <xmdong-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Baolu:
>
> The reproduction depends on devices. HW passthrough PCIe devices with
> default
> identity map could have the issue. Make sure that messages like following
> came
> out in dmesg and their mapping does not change after booting:
>   [   10.167809] DMAR: Hardware identity mapping for device 0000:30:00.0
>   [   10.167823] DMAR: Hardware identity mapping for device 0000:30:00.1
>
> Devices which make following true could also be used for the experiment:
>   > static int iommu_should_identity_map(struct device *dev, int startup)
>   > {
>   >             if ((iommu_identity_mapping & IDENTMAP_AZALIA) &&
> IS_AZALIA(pdev))
>   >                     return 1;
>   >             if ((iommu_identity_mapping & IDENTMAP_GFX) &&
> IS_GFX_DEVICE(pdev))
>   >                     return 1;
>
> Once they are up, remove them first by following command:
>   echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:03\:00.1/remove
>
> Then trigger the hotplug device rescanning:
>   echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
>
> To provide an example of specific devices on the market, I need to try out.
> Or, if it is fine with you, forcing a PCIe NIC card to be default hardware
> passthrough by changing the intel-iommu.c is another easy way to reproduce
> this issue.
>
> Best Regards,
> James
>