Message-ID: <6c2e1c81-e951-a284-b547-733369128e7e@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:14:06 +0100
From:   Auger Eric <eric.auger@...hat.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, eric.auger.pro@...il.com,
        christoffer.dall@...aro.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, will.deacon@....com, joro@...tes.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     drjones@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, punit.agrawal@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, diana.craciun@....com,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, pranav.sawargaonkar@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 4/8] iommu: Add a list of iommu_reserved_region in
 iommu_domain

Hi Robin,

On 10/11/2016 12:54, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 10/11/16 11:22, Auger Eric wrote:
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> On 04/11/2016 15:00, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting this new series - the bottom-up approach is a lot
>>> easier to reason about :)
>>>
>>> On 04/11/16 11:24, Eric Auger wrote:
>>>> Introduce a new iommu_reserved_region struct. This embodies
>>>> an IOVA reserved region that cannot be used along with the IOMMU
>>>> API. The list is protected by a dedicated mutex.
>>>
>>> In the light of these patches, I think I'm settling into agreement that
>>> the iommu_domain is the sweet spot for accessing this information - the
>>> underlying magic address ranges might be properties of various bits of
>>> hardware many of which aren't the IOMMU itself, but they only start to
>>> matter at the point you start wanting to use an IOMMU domain at the
>>> higher level. Therefore, having a callback in the domain ops to pull
>>> everything together fits rather neatly.
>> Using get_dm_regions could have make sense but this approach now is
>> ruled out by sysfs API approach. If attribute file is bound to be used
>> before iommu domains are created, we cannot rely on any iommu_domain
>> based callback. Back to square 1?
> 
> I think it's still OK. The thing about these reserved regions is that as
> a property of the underlying hardware they must be common to any domain
> for a given group, therefore without loss of generality we can simply
> query group->domain->ops->get_dm_regions(), and can expect the reserved
> ones will be the same regardless of what domain that points to
> (identity-mapped IVMD/RMRR/etc.
Are they really? P2P reserved regions depend on iommu_domain right?

Now I did not consider default_domain usability, I acknowledge. I will
send a POC anyway.

 regions may not be, but we'd be
> filtering those out anyway). The default DMA domains need this
> information too, and since those are allocated at group creation,
> group->domain should always be non-NULL and interrogable.
> 
> Plus, the groups are already there in sysfs, and, being representative
> of device topology, would seem to be an ideal place to expose the
> addressing limitations relevant to the devices within them. This really
> feels like it's all falling into place (on the kernel end, at least, I'm
> sticking to the sidelines on the userspace discussion ;)).

Thanks

Eric
> 
> Robin.
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Eric
>>>
>>>>
>>>> An iommu domain now owns a list of those.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/iommu/iommu.c |  2 ++
>>>>  include/linux/iommu.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>>> index 9a2f196..0af07492 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>>> @@ -1061,6 +1061,8 @@ static struct iommu_domain *__iommu_domain_alloc(struct bus_type *bus,
>>>>  
>>>>  	domain->ops  = bus->iommu_ops;
>>>>  	domain->type = type;
>>>> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&domain->reserved_regions);
>>>> +	mutex_init(&domain->resv_mutex);
>>>>  	/* Assume all sizes by default; the driver may override this later */
>>>>  	domain->pgsize_bitmap  = bus->iommu_ops->pgsize_bitmap;
>>>>  
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
>>>> index 436dc21..0f2eb64 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
>>>> @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ struct iommu_domain {
>>>>  	void *handler_token;
>>>>  	struct iommu_domain_geometry geometry;
>>>>  	void *iova_cookie;
>>>> +	struct list_head reserved_regions;
>>>> +	struct mutex resv_mutex; /* protects the reserved region list */
>>>>  };
>>>>  
>>>>  enum iommu_cap {
>>>> @@ -131,6 +133,21 @@ struct iommu_dm_region {
>>>>  	int			prot;
>>>>  };
>>>>  
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * struct iommu_reserved_region - descriptor for a reserved iova region
>>>> + * @list: Linked list pointers
>>>> + * @start: IOVA base address of the region
>>>> + * @length: Length of the region in bytes
>>>> + */
>>>> +struct iommu_reserved_region {
>>>> +	struct list_head	list;
>>>> +	dma_addr_t		start;
>>>> +	size_t			length;
>>>> +};
>>>
>>> Looking at this in context with the dm_region above, though, I come to
>>> the surprising realisation that these *are* dm_regions, even at the
>>> fundamental level - on the one hand you've got physical addresses which
>>> can't be remapped (because something is already using them), while on
>>> the other you've got physical addresses which can't be remapped (because
>>> the IOMMU is incapable). In fact for reserved regions *other* than our
>>> faked-up MSI region there's no harm if the IOMMU were to actually
>>> identity-map them.
>>>
>>> Let's just add this to the existing infrastructure, either with some
>>> kind of IOMMU_NOMAP flag or simply prot = 0. That way it automatically
>>> gets shared between the VFIO and DMA cases for free!
>>>
>>> Robin.
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +#define iommu_reserved_region_for_each(resv, d) \
>>>> +	list_for_each_entry(resv, &(d)->reserved_regions, list)
>>>> +
>>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_API
>>>>  
>>>>  /**
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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