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Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 23:22:43 +0000
From: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
To: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
CC: "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 13/23] iommu: introduce device fault report API
> From: Jacob Pan [mailto:jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:59 PM
> On Thu, 17 May 2018 11:41:56 +0000
> "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > > +int iommu_report_device_fault(struct device *dev, struct
> > > +iommu_fault_event *evt) {
> > > + int ret = 0;
> > > + struct iommu_fault_event *evt_pending;
> > > + struct iommu_fault_param *fparam;
> > > +
> > > + /* iommu_param is allocated when device is added to group
> > > */
> > > + if (!dev->iommu_param | !evt)
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + /* we only report device fault if there is a handler
> > > registered */
> > > + mutex_lock(&dev->iommu_param->lock);
> > > + if (!dev->iommu_param->fault_param ||
> > > + !dev->iommu_param->fault_param->handler) {
> > > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > > + goto done_unlock;
> > > + }
> > > + fparam = dev->iommu_param->fault_param;
> > > + if (evt->type == IOMMU_FAULT_PAGE_REQ && evt->last_req) {
> > > + evt_pending = kmemdup(evt, sizeof(struct
> > > iommu_fault_event),
> > > + GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + if (!evt_pending) {
> > > + ret = -ENOMEM;
> > > + goto done_unlock;
> > > + }
> > > + mutex_lock(&fparam->lock);
> > > + list_add_tail(&evt_pending->list,
> > > &fparam->faults);
> >
> > I may missed it. Here only see list add, how about removing? Who would
> > remove entry from the fault list?
> >
> deletion of the pending event is in page response function (int
> iommu_page_response), once iommu driver finds a matching response for the
> pending request, it will delete the pending event.
>
> if the response never came, right now we don't delete it, just gives warning.
Got it.
>
> > > + mutex_unlock(&fparam->lock);
> > > + }
> > > + ret = fparam->handler(evt, fparam->data);
> >
> > I remember you mentioned there will be a queue to store the faults.
> > Is it in the fparam->faults list? Or there is no such queue?
> There are two use cases:
> case A: guest SVA, PRQ events are reported outside IOMMU subsystem,
> e.g. vfio
> case B: in-kernel
>
> The io page fault queuing is Jean's patchset, mostly for case B (in-kernel IO page
> fault handling). I will convert intel-svm to Jean's io page fault mechanism so that we
> can also have parallel and out of order queuing of PRQ. I still need some time to
> evaluate intel specific needs such as streaming page request/response.
>
> For case A, there is no queuing in host IOMMU driver. My understanding of the flow
> is as the following:
> 1. host IOMMU receives PRQ
> 2. host IOMMU driver reports PRQ fault event to registered called, i.e.
> vfio
> 3. VFIO reports fault event to QEMU
> 4. QEMU injects PRQ to guest
> 5. Guest IOMMU driver receives PRQ in IRQ 6. Guest IOMMU driver queue PRQ by
> groups, PASID.
Correct.
> So as long as in-kernel PRQ handling can do queuing, there is no need for queuing in
> the host reporting path.
Will it affect current interface? Here the handler only get an "evt" per a PRQ IRQ. And I suppose
vfio needs not rely on host iommu queuing?
Thanks,
Yi Liu
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