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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:57:26 -0500
From:   Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, freude@...ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
        kwankhede@...dia.com, bjsdjshi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
        pmorel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, alifm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        mjrosato@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jjherne@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        thuth@...hat.com, pasic@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        fiuczy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, buendgen@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] s390: vfio-ap: guest dedicated crypto adapters

On 02/27/2018 09:58 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:27:58 -0500
> Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On s390, we have cryptographic coprocessor cards, which are modeled on
>> Linux as devices on the AP bus. Each card can be partitioned into domains
>> which can be thought of as a set of hardware registers for processing
>> crypto commands. Crypto commands are sent to a specific domain within a
>> card is via a queue which is identified as a (card,domain) tuple. We model
>> this something like the following (assuming we have access to cards 3 and
>> 4 and domains 1 and 2):
>>
>> AP -> card3 -> queue (3,1)
>>              -> queue (3,2)
>>     -> card4 -> queue (4,1)
>>              -> queue (4,2)
>>
>> If we want to virtualize this, we can use a feature provided by the
>> hardware. We basically attach a satellite control block to our main
>> hardware virtualization control block and the hardware takes care of
>> most of the rest.
>>
>> For this control block, we don't specify explicit tuples, but a list of
>> cards and a list of domains. The guest will get access to the cross
>> product.
>>
>> Because of this, we need to take care that the lists provided to
>> different guests don't overlap; i.e., we need to enforce sane
>> configurations. Otherwise, one guest may get access to things like
>> secret keys for another guest.
>>
>> The idea of this patch set is to introduce a new device, the matrix
>> device. This matrix device hangs off a different root and acts as the
>> parent node for mdev devices.
>>
>> If you now want to give the tuples (4,1) and (4,2), you need to do the
>> following:
>>
>> - Unbind the (4,1) and (4,2) tuples from their ap bus driver.
>> - Bind the (4,1) and (4,2) tuples to the vfio_ap driver.
>> - Create the mediated device.
>> - Assign card 4 and domains 1 and 2 to the mediated device
>>
>> QEMU will now simply consume the mediated device and things should work.
>>
>> For a complete description of the architecture and concepts underlying the
>> design, see the Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.txt file included with this
>> patch set.
>>
>> v1 => v2 Change log:
>> ===================
> Uh, this is very long... It seems most of the changes are not related
> to the basic approach, but concerned with details? The general
> structure was fine last time IIRC.
I'm apologize, I am not well-versed in how much detail is appropriate. This
also went through several internal reviews before re-posting to the kernel
lists.
>
>> * Added documentation vfio-ap.txt
>> * Renamed vfio_ap_matrix module and device driver to vfio_ap
>> * Use device core device list instead of maintaining list of matrix
>>    devices in driver
>> * Added VSIE support for AP
>> * Create matrix device before registering VFIO AP device driver with the
>>    AP bus
>> * Renamed the following files in drivers/s390/crypto:
>>    * vfio_ap_matrix.drv -> vfio_ap_drv
>>    * vfio_ap_matrix_private.h -> vfio_ap_private.h
>>    * vfio_ap_matrix_ops.c -> vfio_ap_ops.c
>> * arch/s390/include/asm/kvm/ap-matrix-config.h
>>    * Renamed to kvm-ap.h
>>    * Changed the data type of the bit mask fields for the matrix structure
>>      to unsigned long and create them with DECLARE_BITMAP
>>    * Changed #define prefixes from AP_MATRIX to KVM_AP
>>    * Changed function and structure prefixes from ap_matrix to kvm_ap
>>    * Added function interface to check if AP Extended Addressing (APXA)
>>      facility is installedCRYCB_FORMAT_MASK
>>    * Added function interface to get the maximum ID for AP mask type
>>    * Added function interface to set the AP execution mode
>> * arch/s390/kvm/ap-matrix-config.c
>>    * Renamed to kvm-ap.c
>>    * Changed function prefixes from ap_matrix to kvm_ap
>>    * Added function to check if AP Extended Addressing (APXA) facility is
>>      installed
>>    * Added function to get the maximum ID for AP mask type
>>    * Added function to set the AP execution mode
>>    * Added a boolean parameter to the functions that retrieve the APM, AQM
>>      and ADM bit mask fields from the CRYCB. If true, then the function
>>      will clear the bits in the mask before returning a reference to it
>>    * Added validation to verify that APM, AQM and ADM bits that are set do
>>      not exceed the maximum ID value allowed
>>    *
>> * arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>    * Changed defined for ECA_AP to ECA_APIE - interpretive execution mode
>>    * Added a flag to struct kvm_s390_crypto to indicate whether the
>>      KVM_S390_VM_CPU_FEAT_AP CPU model feature for AP facilities is set
>>    * Added two CPU facilities features to set STFLE.12 and STFLE.15
>> * arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>>    * Added initialization for new KVM_S390_VM_CPU_FEAT_AP CPU model feature
>>    * Removed kvm_s390_apxa_installed() function
>>    * Changed call to kvm_s390_apxa_installed() which has been removed to a
>>      call to new kvm_ap_apxa_installed() function.
>>    * Added code to kvm_s390_vcpu_crypto_setup() to set the new CPU model
>>      feature flag in the kvm_s390_crypto structure
>>    * Added CRYCB_FORMAT_MASK to mask CRYCBD
>> * arch/s390/tools/gen_facilities.c
>>    * Added STFLE.12 and STFLE.15 to struct facility _def
>> * drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_matrix_private.h
>>    * Changed name of file to vfio_ap.private.h
>>    * Changed #define prefixes from VFIO_AP_MATRIX to VFIO_AP
>>    * struct ap_matrix: removed list fields and locks
>>    * struct vfio_ap_queue: removed list field
>>    * Renamed functions ap_matrix_mdev_register and ap_matrix_mdev_unregister
>>      to vfio_ap_mdev_register and vfio_ap_mdev_unregister respectively
>> * drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_matrix_drv.c
>>    * Renamed file to drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
>>    * Changed all #define, structure and function prefixes to vfio_ap
>>    * probe function
>>      * Changed root device name for the matrix device to vfio_ap:
>>        i.e., /sys/devices/vfio_ap/matrix
>>      * No longer storing the AP queue device in a list, it is retrievable
>>        via the device core
>>      * Removed unnecessary check whether matrix device exists
>>      * Store the vfio_ap_queue structure in the private field of the
>>        ap_queue structure rather than using list interface
>>    * remove function
>>      * Retrieve vfio_ap_queue structure from the struct ap_queue private
>>        data rather than from a list
>>    * Removed unnecessary check
>> * drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_matrix_ops.c
>>    * Renamed file to vfio_ap_ops.c
>>    * Changed #define prefixes from AP_MATRIX to VFIO_AP
>>    * Changed function name prefixes from ap_matrix to vfio_ap
>>    * Removed ioctl to configure the CRYCB
>>    * create function
>>      * Removed ap_matrix_mdev_find_by_uuid() function - function is provided
>>        by mdev core
>>      * Removed available_instances verification, provided by mdev core
>>      * Removed check to see if mediated device exists, handled by mdev core
>>    * notifier function
>>      * Configuring matrix here instead of via ioctl
>>      * Set interpretive execution mode for all VCPUs
>>     * Removed R/O attributes to display adapters and domains
>>     * Added an R/O attribute to display the matrix
>>    * assign_control_domain mdev attribute:
>>      * Removed check to see if the domain is installed on the linux host
>>      * Added check to verify the control domain ID does not exceed the max
>>        value
>>    * assign_adapter mdev attribute:
>>      * Added check to verify the adapter ID does not exceed the max
>>        value
>>      * If any APQNs configured for the mediated matrix device that
>>        have an APID matching the adapter ID being assigned are not
>>        bound to the vfio_ap device driver then it is assumed that the APQN
>>        is bound to another driver and assignment will fail
>>    * assign_domain mdev attribute:
>>      * Added check to verify the domain ID does not exceed the max
>>        value
>>      * If any APQNs configured for the mediated matrix device that
>>        have an APQI matching the domain ID being assigned are not
>>        bound to the vfio_ap device driver then it is assumed that the APQN
>>        is bound to another driver and assignment will fail
>> * tools/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>>    * removed  KVM_S390_VM_CPU_FEAT_AP feature definition
>>
>> Tony Krowiak (15):
>>    KVM: s390: refactor crypto initialization
>>    s390: vsie: implement AP support for second level guest
>>    s390: zcrypt: externalize AP instructions available function
>>    KVM: s390: CPU model support for AP virtualization
>>    s390: vfio-ap: base implementation of VFIO AP device driver
>>    s390: vfio-ap: register matrix device with VFIO mdev framework
>>    KVM: s390: Interfaces to configure/deconfigure guest's AP matrix
>>    KVM: s390: interface to enable AP execution mode
>>    s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure adapters
>>    s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure domains
>>    s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure control domains
>>    s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interface to view matrix mdev matrix
>>    KVM: s390: Configure the guest's CRYCB
>>    s390: vfio-ap: implement VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO ioctl
>>    s390: doc: detailed specifications for AP virtualization
>>
>>   Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.txt          |  514 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   MAINTAINERS                             |   14 +
>>   arch/s390/Kconfig                       |    8 +
>>   arch/s390/configs/default_defconfig     |    3 +
>>   arch/s390/configs/gcov_defconfig        |    3 +
>>   arch/s390/configs/performance_defconfig |    3 +
>>   arch/s390/defconfig                     |    3 +
>>   arch/s390/include/asm/ap.h              |    7 +
>>   arch/s390/include/asm/kvm-ap.h          |   59 +++
>>   arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h        |    2 +
>>   arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h        |    1 +
>>   arch/s390/kvm/Makefile                  |    2 +-
>>   arch/s390/kvm/kvm-ap.c                  |  336 ++++++++++++
>>   arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c                |   66 +--
>>   arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h                |    1 +
>>   arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c                    |   71 +++-
>>   arch/s390/tools/gen_facilities.c        |    2 +
>>   drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile            |    4 +
>>   drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c            |    6 +
>>   drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c       |  143 +++++
>>   drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c       |  868 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_private.h   |   45 ++
>>   include/uapi/linux/vfio.h               |    2 +
>>   23 files changed, 2096 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.txt
>>   create mode 100644 arch/s390/include/asm/kvm-ap.h
>>   create mode 100644 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-ap.c
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_private.h
>>

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