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[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Manoj:

The way we use Ubuntu distributions is that we download ISO images and
then create separate hard disks for each Ubuntu version. If you test
with just changing the kernel version matching a specific Ubuntu version
but all others components of the OS including libvirt, qemu are
unchanged, I'm not sure we have the same environment. Based on the
difference in behavior we observed across 3 Ubuntu versions, we
suspected that the introduction of vfio in 14.04 or the Qemu version in
14.04 could be the culprit.

pcimem is a user-space utility to peek/poke BAR registers of any PCI
device. It does not require the LiquidIO driver. The steps you followed
to use pcimem looks correct.

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Title:
  A a single PCI read or write appears twice on the PCIe bus. This
  happens when using the SR-IOV feature with  Cavium's liquidIO card

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Cavium engineers are testing  SR-IOV feature with  Cavium's new
  liquidIO card (based on OCTEON processor running as an intelligent
  NIC) on x86 Dell servers and ran into the issue described below.

  They are *not* seeing this issue on  Intel 82599 NIC.

  So far, they have seen this on multiple Dell servers - T5810  & Dell
  T630 (x86 - Ubuntu certified).

  We are testing a Cavium OCTEON device in EP mode with SRIOV.  With a
  CentOS7 VM running on the Ubuntu 14.04.2 host (using VFIO) we see that
  a single PCI read or write transaction targeting the device’s BAR0
  issued from the VM appears twice on the PCIe bus. The same accesses
  work fine when the VF is accessed directly from the Ubuntu 14.04.2
  host. These BAR0 PCI accesses do not require a driver on the VM side.
  We can reproduce the problem using a simple user-space application to
  access the VF’s BAR0 registers.

  We do not see this problem when the VM runs within a CentOS 7 host or
  under a Ubuntu 12.04 host. This appears specific to Ubuntu 14.04
  release. Appreciate your help in any clues or pointers to this
  behavior.

  This issue is also not happening with 16.04 beta.

  Steps to reproduce the bug with pcimem:

  Read:
  ./pcimem /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:04\:00.0/resource0 0x10080 d

  Write:
  ./pcimem /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:04\:00.0/resource0 0x10080 d 2048

  Read again:
  ./pcimem /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:04\:00.0/resource0 0x10080 d

  The value of SLIST_BAOFF_DBELL should be the same for the first read
  and the second read, after the write.

  If the bug is hit, the second read will report a value of double
  instead of the same.

  The register should have read back the same value that was written.
  The register acts like an adder in that every write adds to the
  previously written value minus anything the device has consumed. We
  see that the second read returns double the value written in the
  single write. We captured a PCIe trace and found that each of the PCI
  operation accessing this register is seen twice on the PCI bus. The 2
  writes cause the register value to double which has implications for
  normal operation. The PCIe trace is attached and has markers to
  identify the relevant transactions.

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