Hi all,
One of my Xen servers is equipped in a Lavalink Octopus-550 8 port
serial PCI adapter, in order to function as a poor man''s serial
console server. The server itself, a IBM eSeries 345, has one
additional onboard serial port.
Booting a stock Debian Etch kernel gives me all 8 ports. However,
booting this server with the Xen Hypervisor and a Xen enabled kernel
only 4 of the 8 ports are detected and usable. I there a limit on the
amount of usable serial ports in a dom0?
Some detailed info:
Distro: Debian Etch 4.0
Xen hypervisor: 3.2-1, compiled from the source package in the Debian
package pool
Kernels: 2.6.18-6-686 and 2.6.18-6-xen-686
host : node01-ams
release : 2.6.18-6-xen-686
version : #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:43:13 UTC 2008
machine : i686
nr_cpus : 4
nr_nodes : 1
cores_per_socket : 1
threads_per_core : 2
cpu_mhz : 2394
hw_caps : bfebfbff:00000000:00000000:00000080:00004400
total_memory : 2047
free_memory : 126
node_to_cpu : node0:0-3
xen_major : 3
xen_minor : 2
xen_extra : -1
xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32p
xen_scheduler : credit
xen_pagesize : 4096
platform_params : virt_start=0xf5800000
xen_changeset : unavailable
cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease)
(Debian 4.1.1-21)
cc_compile_by : waldi
cc_compile_domain : debian.org
cc_compile_date : Tue Feb 26 13:22:43 CET 2008
xend_config_format : 4
Some lspci -v output:
00:05.0 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo A (rev 03)
(prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo A
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 169
I/O ports at 2400 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2408 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2410 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2418 [size=8]
00:05.1 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo B (rev 03)
(prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava Octo B
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 169
I/O ports at 2420 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2428 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2430 [size=8]
I/O ports at 2438 [size=8]
Running a stock Debian kernel (2.6.18-6-686) gives me only 4 ports;
the onboard port, and 3 additional ports from the Octopus:
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2400 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x2408 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2410 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
Couldn''t register serial port 0000:00:05.0: -28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.1[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Couldn''t register serial port 0000:00:05.1: -28
As you can see the last port on PCI device 5.0 couldn''t be registered
and neither can the ports on device 5.1.
When passing 8250.nr_uarts=16 as an argument to the stock kernel all
ports get detected properly:
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 16 ports, IRQ sharing
enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
0000:00:05.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0x2400 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS5 at I/O 0x2408 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS6 at I/O 0x2410 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS7 at I/O 0x2418 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.1[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
0000:00:05.1: ttyS8 at I/O 0x2420 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.1: ttyS9 at I/O 0x2428 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.1: ttyS10 at I/O 0x2430 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.1: ttyS11 at I/O 0x2438 (irq = 169) is a 16550A
When running a Xen enabled kernel and hypervisor and after remapping
the xen serial device to ttyS16 (the onboard port) I receive the
following output:
Xen virtual console successfully installed as ttyS16
[...]
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
0000:00:05.0: ttyS0 at I/O 0x2400 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2408 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x2410 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
0000:00:05.0: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2418 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.1[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
Couldn''t register serial port 0000:00:05.1: -28
I''ve been fiddling with this all afternoon, but can''t get more
then 4
ports detected when using Xen. I this some kind of limit, or am I
missing something?
Thanks in advance,
Arjen
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