linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and allocation APIs

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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:46:48 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
Cc:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>, "Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and
 allocation APIs

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:38:44AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:41 PM
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:38:36AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > 
> > > The reason is /dev/ioasid FD is per-VM since the ioasid allocated to
> > > the VM should be able to be shared by all assigned device for the VM.
> > > But the SVA operations (bind/unbind page table, cache_invalidate) should
> > > be per-device.
> > 
> > It is not *per-device* it is *per-ioasid*
> >
> > And as /dev/ioasid is an interface for controlling multiple ioasid's
> > there is no issue to also multiplex the page table manipulation for
> > multiple ioasids as well.
> > 
> > What you should do next is sketch out in some RFC the exactl ioctls
> > each FD would have and show how the parts I outlined would work and
> > point out any remaining gaps.
> > 
> > The device FD is something like the vfio_device FD from VFIO, it has
> > *nothing* to do with PASID beyond having a single ioctl to authorize
> > the device to use the PASID. All control of the PASID is in
> > /dev/ioasid.
> 
> good to see this reply. Your idea is much clearer to me now. If I'm getting
> you correctly. I think the skeleton is something like below:
> 
> 1) userspace opens a /dev/ioasid, meanwhile there will be an ioasid
>    allocated and a per-ioasid context which can be used to do bind page
>    table and cache invalidate, an ioasid FD returned to userspace.
> 2) userspace passes the ioasid FD to VFIO, let it associated with a device
>    FD (like vfio_device FD).
> 3) userspace binds page table on the ioasid FD with the page table info.
> 4) userspace unbinds the page table on the ioasid FD
> 5) userspace de-associates the ioasid FD and device FD
> 
> Does above suit your outline?

Seems so

> If yes, I still have below concern and wish to see your opinion.
> - the ioasid FD and device association will happen at runtime instead of
>   just happen in the setup phase.

Of course, this is required for security. The vIOMMU must perform the
device association when the guest requires it. Otherwise a guest
cannot isolate a PASID to a single process/device pair.

I'm worried Intel views the only use of PASID in a guest is with
ENQCMD, but that is not consistent with the industry. We need to see
normal nested PASID support with assigned PCI VFs.

> - how about AMD and ARM's vSVA support? Their PASID allocation and page table
>   happens within guest. They only need to bind the guest PASID table to host.
>   Above model seems unable to fit them. (Jean, Eric, Jacob please feel free
>   to correct me)

No, everything needs the device association step or it is not
secure. 

You can give a PASID to a guest and allow it to manipulate it's memory
map directly, nested under the guest's CPU page tables.

However the guest cannot authorize a PCI BDF to utilize that PASID
without going through some kind of step in the hypervisor. A Guest
should not be able to authorize a PASID for a BDF it doesn't have
access to - only the hypervisor can enforce this.

This all must also fit into the mdev model where only the
device-specific mdev driver can do the device specific PASID
authorization. A hypercall is essential, or we need to stop pretending
mdev is a good idea.

I'm sure there will be some small differences, and you should clearly
explain the entire uAPI surface so that soneone from AMD and ARM can
review it.

> - this per-ioasid SVA operations is not aligned with the native SVA usage
>   model. Native SVA bind is per-device.

Seems like that is an error in native SVA.

SVA is a particular mode of the PASID's memory mapping table, it has
nothing to do with a device.

Jason