[PATCH kernel v6 00/29] powerpc/iommu/vfio: Enable Dynamic DMA windows

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Date: Fri Mar 13 2015 - 04:23:59 EST


This enables sPAPR defined feature called Dynamic DMA windows (DDW).

Each Partitionable Endpoint (IOMMU group) has an address range on a PCI bus
where devices are allowed to do DMA. These ranges are called DMA windows.
By default, there is a single DMA window, 1 or 2GB big, mapped at zero
on a PCI bus.

Hi-speed devices may suffer from the limited size of the window.
The recent host kernels use a TCE bypass window on POWER8 CPU which implements
direct PCI bus address range mapping (with offset of 1<<59) to the host memory.

For guests, PAPR defines a DDW RTAS API which allows pseries guests
querying the hypervisor about DDW support and capabilities (page size mask
for now). A pseries guest may request an additional (to the default)
DMA windows using this RTAS API.
The existing pseries Linux guests request an additional window as big as
the guest RAM and map the entire guest window which effectively creates
direct mapping of the guest memory to a PCI bus.

The multiple DMA windows feature is supported by POWER7/POWER8 CPUs; however
this patchset only adds support for POWER8 as TCE tables are implemented
in POWER7 in a quite different way ans POWER7 is not the highest priority.

This patchset reworks PPC64 IOMMU code and adds necessary structures
to support big windows.

Once a Linux guest discovers the presence of DDW, it does:
1. query hypervisor about number of available windows and page size masks;
2. create a window with the biggest possible page size (today 4K/64K/16M);
3. map the entire guest RAM via H_PUT_TCE* hypercalls;
4. switche dma_ops to direct_dma_ops on the selected PE.

Once this is done, H_PUT_TCE is not called anymore for 64bit devices and
the guest does not waste time on DMA map/unmap operations.

Note that 32bit devices won't use DDW and will keep using the default
DMA window so KVM optimizations will be required (to be posted later).

The actual version of this patchset is available at:
git@xxxxxxxxxx:aik/linux.git , vfio-for-github branch

The matching QEMU version is there:
git@xxxxxxxxxx:aik/qemu.git , vfio-for-github branch


Please comment. Thanks!


Changes:
v6:
* fixed a bunch of errors in "vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support Dynamic DMA windows"
* moved static IOMMU properties from iommu_table_group to iommu_table_group_ops
* enforced v1/v2 specific limitations
* added descriptions to new ioctls
* replaced page kind-of-masks from PAPR with normal page mask

v5:
* added SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU_v2 to tell the userspace that there is a memory
pre-registration feature
* added backward compatibility
* renamed few things (mostly powerpc_iommu -> iommu_table_group)

v4:
* moved patches around to have VFIO and PPC patches separated as much as
possible
* now works with the existing upstream QEMU

v3:
* redesigned the whole thing
* multiple IOMMU groups per PHB -> one PHB is needed for VFIO in the guest ->
no problems with locked_vm counting; also we save memory on actual tables
* guest RAM preregistration is required for DDW
* PEs (IOMMU groups) are passed to VFIO with no DMA windows at all so
we do not bother with iommu_table::it_map anymore
* added multilevel TCE tables support to support really huge guests

v2:
* added missing __pa() in "powerpc/powernv: Release replaced TCE"
* reposted to make some noise




Alexey Kardashevskiy (29):
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Move page pinning from arch code to VFIO IOMMU
driver
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Do cleanup when releasing the group
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Check that TCE page size is equal to it_page_size
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Use it_page_size
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Move locked_vm accounting to helpers
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Disable DMA mappings on disabled container
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Moving pinning/unpinning to helpers
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Register memory
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Rework attach/detach
powerpc/powernv: Do not set "read" flag if direction==DMA_NONE
powerpc/iommu: Move tce_xxx callbacks from ppc_md to iommu_table
powerpc/iommu: Introduce iommu_table_alloc() helper
powerpc/spapr: vfio: Switch from iommu_table to new iommu_table_group
vfio: powerpc/spapr: powerpc/iommu: Rework IOMMU ownership control
vfio: powerpc/spapr: powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Rework IOMMU ownership
control
powerpc/iommu: Fix IOMMU ownership control functions
powerpc/powernv/ioda/ioda2: Rework tce_build()/tce_free()
powerpc/iommu/powernv: Release replaced TCE
powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Rework iommu_table creation
powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Introduce
pnv_pci_ioda2_create_table/pnc_pci_free_table
powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Introduce pnv_pci_ioda2_set_window
powerpc/iommu: Split iommu_free_table into 2 helpers
powerpc/powernv: Implement multilevel TCE tables
powerpc/powernv: Change prototypes to receive iommu
powerpc/powernv/ioda: Define and implement DMA table/window management
callbacks
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Define v2 IOMMU
vfio: powerpc/spapr: powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Rework ownership
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support multiple groups in one container if
possible
vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support Dynamic DMA windows

Documentation/vfio.txt | 38 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/iommu.h | 98 ++-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h | 25 -
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 328 +++++----
arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c | 5 +
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/iommu.c | 8 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/iommu.c | 7 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 499 ++++++++++---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-p5ioc2.c | 31 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.c | 114 ++-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h | 12 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c | 55 +-
arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c | 12 +-
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 1047 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 68 +-
15 files changed, 1862 insertions(+), 485 deletions(-)

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