RE: [PATCH v6 12/15] vfio/type1: Add vSVA support for IOMMU-backed mdevs

From: Liu, Yi L
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 20:54:04 EST


Hi Alex,

> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 5:49 AM
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:27:41 -0700
> Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Recent years, mediated device pass-through framework (e.g. vfio-mdev)
> > is used to achieve flexible device sharing across domains (e.g. VMs).
> > Also there are hardware assisted mediated pass-through solutions from
> > platform vendors. e.g. Intel VT-d scalable mode which supports Intel
> > Scalable I/O Virtualization technology. Such mdevs are called IOMMU-
> > backed mdevs as there are IOMMU enforced DMA isolation for such mdevs.
> > In kernel, IOMMU-backed mdevs are exposed to IOMMU layer by aux-domain
>
> Or a physical IOMMU backing device.

got it. :-)

> > concept, which means mdevs are protected by an iommu domain which is
> > auxiliary to the domain that the kernel driver primarily uses for DMA
> > API. Details can be found in the KVM presentation as below:
> >
> > https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/\
> > Hardware-Assisted-Mediated-Pass-Through-with-VFIO-Kevin-Tian-Intel.pdf
>
> I think letting the line exceed 80 columns is preferable so that it's clickable. Thanks,

yeah, it's clickable now. will do it. :-)

Thanks,
Yi Liu

> Alex
>
> > This patch extends NESTING_IOMMU ops to IOMMU-backed mdev devices. The
> > main requirement is to use the auxiliary domain associated with mdev.
> >
> > Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Jun Tian <jun.j.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v5 -> v6:
> > *) add review-by from Eric Auger.
> >
> > v1 -> v2:
> > *) check the iommu_device to ensure the handling mdev is IOMMU-backed
> > ---
> > drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 40
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c index bf95a0f..9d8f252 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > @@ -2379,20 +2379,41 @@ static int vfio_iommu_resv_refresh(struct
> vfio_iommu *iommu,
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
> > +static struct device *vfio_get_iommu_device(struct vfio_group *group,
> > + struct device *dev)
> > +{
> > + if (group->mdev_group)
> > + return vfio_mdev_get_iommu_device(dev);
> > + else
> > + return dev;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int vfio_dev_bind_gpasid_fn(struct device *dev, void *data) {
> > struct domain_capsule *dc = (struct domain_capsule *)data;
> > unsigned long arg = *(unsigned long *)dc->data;
> > + struct device *iommu_device;
> > +
> > + iommu_device = vfio_get_iommu_device(dc->group, dev);
> > + if (!iommu_device)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> >
> > - return iommu_uapi_sva_bind_gpasid(dc->domain, dev, (void __user *)arg);
> > + return iommu_uapi_sva_bind_gpasid(dc->domain, iommu_device,
> > + (void __user *)arg);
> > }
> >
> > static int vfio_dev_unbind_gpasid_fn(struct device *dev, void *data)
> > {
> > struct domain_capsule *dc = (struct domain_capsule *)data;
> > unsigned long arg = *(unsigned long *)dc->data;
> > + struct device *iommu_device;
> >
> > - iommu_uapi_sva_unbind_gpasid(dc->domain, dev, (void __user *)arg);
> > + iommu_device = vfio_get_iommu_device(dc->group, dev);
> > + if (!iommu_device)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + iommu_uapi_sva_unbind_gpasid(dc->domain, iommu_device,
> > + (void __user *)arg);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -2401,8 +2422,13 @@ static int __vfio_dev_unbind_gpasid_fn(struct device
> *dev, void *data)
> > struct domain_capsule *dc = (struct domain_capsule *)data;
> > struct iommu_gpasid_bind_data *unbind_data =
> > (struct iommu_gpasid_bind_data *)dc->data;
> > + struct device *iommu_device;
> > +
> > + iommu_device = vfio_get_iommu_device(dc->group, dev);
> > + if (!iommu_device)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> >
> > - iommu_sva_unbind_gpasid(dc->domain, dev, unbind_data);
> > + iommu_sva_unbind_gpasid(dc->domain, iommu_device, unbind_data);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -3060,8 +3086,14 @@ static int vfio_dev_cache_invalidate_fn(struct
> > device *dev, void *data) {
> > struct domain_capsule *dc = (struct domain_capsule *)data;
> > unsigned long arg = *(unsigned long *)dc->data;
> > + struct device *iommu_device;
> > +
> > + iommu_device = vfio_get_iommu_device(dc->group, dev);
> > + if (!iommu_device)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> >
> > - iommu_uapi_cache_invalidate(dc->domain, dev, (void __user *)arg);
> > + iommu_uapi_cache_invalidate(dc->domain, iommu_device,
> > + (void __user *)arg);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >