** Patch added: "qemu-bug-1606940.debdiff"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1606940/+attachment/4708134/+files/qemu-bug-1606940.debdiff

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
-  * Users of SRIOV devices in qemu on Trusty may encounter unstable
-    behavior on pass-through PCI devices due to a bug in qemu's MMIO
-    mapping to overlapping ram slots. When memory is accessed in
-    subpage granularity where slots have overlapping regions multiple
-    invocations of the handler ocurrs which resulted in multiple pci
-    writes.
+  * Users of SRIOV devices in qemu on Trusty may encounter unstable
+    behavior on pass-through PCI devices due to a bug in qemu's MMIO
+    mapping to overlapping ram slots. When memory is accessed in
+    subpage granularity where slots have overlapping regions multiple
+    invocations of the handler ocurrs which resulted in multiple pci
+    writes.
  
-    This affects the qemu releases prior to qemu 2.5, it has been fixed in
-    newer releases.
+    This affects the qemu releases prior to qemu 2.5, it has been fixed in
+    newer releases.
  
-  * Backporting fixes from upstream release is required to allow
-    certain PCI devices under SRIOV to function properly.
+  * Backporting fixes from upstream release is required to allow
+    certain PCI devices under SRIOV to function properly.
  
-  * All patches applied are already accepted upstream. Xenial, Yakkety
-    are OK, Wily -> Trusty are affected.
+  * All patches applied are already accepted upstream. Xenial, Yakkety
+    are OK, Wily -> Trusty are affected.
  
  [Test Case]
  
-  * On a Trusty 14.04 system with affected SRIOV device.
-     - boot system with sriov enabled
-     - launch vm with sriov device passed through
-       using guest XML attached (bug-1563375-trusty-guest.xml)
-     - unpack pcimem tarball inside vm (pcimem.tar attached)
-     - Read (note the pci path should point to the SRIOV device)
-      ./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
+  * On a Trusty 14.04 system with affected SRIOV device.
+     - boot system with sriov enabled
+     - launch vm with sriov device passed through
+       using guest XML attached (bug-1606940-trusty-guest.xml)
+     - unpack pcimem tarball inside vm (pcimem.tar attached)
+     - Read (note the pci path should point to the SRIOV device)
+      ./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 0x10080 should be the same for the first read
-     and the second read, after the write.
+     The value of 0x10080 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.
+     If the bug is hit, the second read will report a value of double
+     instead of the same.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
-  * SR-IOV device drivers may have unknowingly relied on KVM multi-write
-    behavior prior to this patch; that's highly unlikely since it would
-    fail on physical hardware (which does not produce this effect). But
-    there is a chance that devices only passed into the guest via SRIOV
-    might break.
+  * SR-IOV device drivers may have unknowingly relied on KVM multi-write
+    behavior prior to this patch; that's highly unlikely since it would
+    fail on physical hardware (which does not produce this effect). But
+    there is a chance that devices only passed into the guest via SRIOV
+    might break.
  
  [Original Description]
  Customer engineers are testing the SR-IOV feature with a new network card on 
x86 servers and ran into the issue described below.
  
  They are *not* seeing this issue on Intel 82599 NIC.
  
  We are testing a new 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 0x10080 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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  A a single PCI read or write appears twice on the PCIe bus. This
  happens when using the SR-IOV feature with some PCI devices

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