This is a problem only in xenial and later (yakkety, zesty, upstream).
The issue is the driver configures an MSIX interrupt to use with the
admin queue during initialization, and then when setting up its I/O
queues, it releases the MSIX interrupt for the admin queue, and then
immediately configures lots of MSIX interrupts for its I/O queues (the
admin queue then shares the MSIX interrupt of the first I/O queue).
This MSIX release/request is what causes the failure; if the MSIX
interrupts are configured only once, the driver initializes all
controllers ok.
Before the xenial kernel (e.g. in trusty), the driver works. However,
the reason it works is because it uses a polling kthread instead of a
MSIX interrupt for the admin queue, and so doesn't request the first
single MSIX interrupt, thus this specific problem isn't present there.
Later kernels, starting with xenial, do not use the polling kthread (as
it was never actually needed), and do use MSIX interrupts for the admin
queue and I/O queues.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dan Streetman (ddstreet)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1648449
Title:
NVMe drives in Amazon AWS instance fail to initialize
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
[Impact]
On an Amazon AWS instance that has NVMe drives, the NVMe drives fail
to initialize, and so aren't usable by the system. If one of the NVMe
drives contains the root filesystem, the instance won't boot.
[Test Case]
Boot an AWS instance with a NVMe drive. It will fail to initialize
the NVMe drive(s), and errors will appear in the system log (if the
system boots at all). With a patched kernel, all NVMe drives are
initialized and enumerated and work properly.
[Regression Potential]
Patching the NVMe driver may cause problems on other systems using
NVMe drives.
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