linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] vfio/type1: bypass unmap/unpin and replay for VFIO_IOVA

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Message-ID: <57332C66.30105@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2016 14:58:14 +0200
From:	Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:	eric.auger@...com, robin.murphy@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	joro@...tes.org, tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net,
	marc.zyngier@....com, christoffer.dall@...aro.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, patches@...aro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bharat.Bhushan@...escale.com,
	pranav.sawargaonkar@...il.com, p.fedin@...sung.com,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Jean-Philippe.Brucker@....com,
	julien.grall@....com, yehuday@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] vfio/type1: bypass unmap/unpin and replay for
 VFIO_IOVA_RESERVED slots

Hi Alex,
On 05/10/2016 12:49 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed,  4 May 2016 11:54:14 +0000
> Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
>> Before allowing the end-user to create VFIO_IOVA_RESERVED dma slots,
>> let's implement the expected behavior for removal and replay. As opposed
>> to user dma slots, IOVAs are not systematically bound to PAs and PAs are
>> not pinned. VFIO just initializes the IOVA "aperture". IOVAs are allocated
>> outside of the VFIO framework, typically the MSI layer which is
>> responsible to free and unmap them. The MSI mapping resources are freeed
>> by the IOMMU driver on domain destruction.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> v7 -> v8:
>> - do no destroy anything anymore, just bypass unmap/unpin and iommu_map
>>   on replay
>> ---
>>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 5 ++++-
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> index 2d769d4..94a9916 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static void vfio_unmap_unpin(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_dma *dma)
>>  	struct vfio_domain *domain, *d;
>>  	long unlocked = 0;
>>  
>> -	if (!dma->size)
>> +	if (!dma->size || dma->type != VFIO_IOVA_USER)
>>  		return;
>>  	/*
>>  	 * We use the IOMMU to track the physical addresses, otherwise we'd
>> @@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ static int vfio_iommu_replay(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>  		dma = rb_entry(n, struct vfio_dma, node);
>>  		iova = dma->iova;
>>  
>> +		if (dma->type == VFIO_IOVA_RESERVED)
>> +			continue;
>> +
> 
> But you do still need some sort of replay mechanism, right?  Not to
> replay the IOVA to PA mapping, but to call iommu_msi_set_aperture() for
> the new domain.  How will you know that this entry is an MSI reserved
> range or something else?  Perhaps we can't have a generic "reserved"
> type here.
Thanks for spotting this bug. I was not testing this case yet and
effectively I need to replay the set_aperture.

Thanks for the review

Best Regards

Eric

> 
>>  		while (iova < dma->iova + dma->size) {
>>  			phys_addr_t phys = iommu_iova_to_phys(d->domain, iova);
>>  			size_t size;
>