linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] virtio_ring: Use DMA API if guest memory is encrypted

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:57:10 +1100
From:   David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@....com>,
        Michael Roth <mdroth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Mike Anderson <andmike@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] virtio_ring: Use DMA API if guest memory is encrypted

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 05:01:35PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:05:04PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> > Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> writes:
[snip]
> > >> > Is there any justification to doing that beyond someone putting
> > >> > out slow code in the past?
> > >>
> > >> The definition of the ACCESS_PLATFORM flag is generic and captures the
> > >> notion of memory access restrictions for the device. Unfortunately, on
> > >> powerpc pSeries guests it also implies that the IOMMU is turned on
> > >
> > > IIUC that's really because on pSeries IOMMU is *always* turned on.
> > > Platform has no way to say what you want it to say
> > > which is bypass the iommu for the specific device.
> > 
> > Yes, that's correct. pSeries guests running on KVM are in a gray area
> > where theoretically they use an IOMMU but in practice KVM ignores it.
> > It's unfortunate but it's the reality on the ground today. :-/

Um.. I'm not sure what you mean by this.  As far as I'm concerned
there is always a guest-visible (paravirtualized) IOMMU, and that will
be backed onto the host IOMMU when necessary.

[Actually there is an IOMMU bypass hack that's used by the guest
 firmware, but I don't think we want to expose that]

> Well it's not just the reality, virt setups need something that
> emulated IOMMUs don't provide. That is not uncommon, e.g.
> intel's VTD has a "cache mode" field which AFAIK is only used for virt.

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