RE: [PATCH v3 07/17] iommufd: Add IOMMU_RESV_IOVA_RANGES

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 1:17 AM
> 
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:07:58AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > From: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 7:04 PM
> > >
> > > This reports device's reserved IOVA regions to userspace. This is needed
> > > in the nested translation as userspace owns stage-1 HWPT, and
> userspace
> > > needs to exclude the reserved IOVA regions in the stage-1 HWPT hence
> > > exclude
> > > them in the device's DMA address space.
> > >
> > > This can also be used to figure out allowed IOVAs of an IOAS.
> >
> > We may need a special type to mark SW_MSI since it requires identity
> > mapping in stage-1 instead of being reserved.
> 
> Only the kernel can do this, so there is no action for user space to
> take beyond knowing that is is not mappable IOVA.
> 
> The merit for "SW_MSI" may be to inform the rest of the system about
> the IOVA of the ITS page, but with the current situation that isn't
> required since only the kernel needs that information.

IIUC guest kernel needs to know the "SW_MSI" region and then setup an
1:1 mapping for it in S1.

So Qemu needs to know and pass this information to the guest?

> 
> I think the long term way forward is to somehow arrange for the SW_MSI
> to not become mapped when creating the parent HWPT and instead cause
> the ITS page to be mapped through some explicit IOCTL.
> 

yes this is a cleaner approach. Qemu selects the intermediate address of
vITS page and maps it to physical ITS page in S2. Then the guest kernel
just pick whatever "SW_MSI" address in S1 to vITS as it does today on 
bare metal.