Any further thoughts on this? Could this be a device failure?

Best,
Damon

> On 11 May 2016, at 00:18, Damon Namod <m...@damon.at> wrote:
> 
> The output of `lspci -vvvs  01:00.0` is attached. Interestingly, the command 
> generates an error somewhere in the middle of the output:
> 
>    pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Input/output error
> 
> The corresponding `dmesg` output is:
> 
>    [ 2587.922711] vfio-pci 0000:01:00.0: invalid short VPD tag 00 at offset 1
> 
> I blacklisted the `mpt3sas` driver and assign the device directly to VFIO:
> 
>    $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf
>    blacklist mpt3sas
>    options vfio-pci ids=1000:0072
> 
> Best,
> Damon
> 
> <ibm-serveraid-m1015_lspci-vvvs.txt>
> 
> 
>> On 10 May 2016, at 20:01, Alex Williamson <alex.l.william...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Damon Namod <m...@damon.at> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I just tried Linux 4.6.0-rc7 with qemu 2.6.0-rc4. Same error and behaviour. 
>> What the heck is this?
>> 
>> Another question/request, are you blacklisting the driver for this device 
>> (mpt3sas) or using pci-stub or other means to prevent it from claiming the 
>> device on the host or are you dynamically unbinding from mpt3sas?  If the 
>> latter, could you try to one of the former mechanism to make the HBA 
>> untouched by the host prior to assigning?
> 


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