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

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Date:   Fri, 2 Apr 2021 08:22:28 +0000
From:   "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
CC:     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>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>, "Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and allocation
 APIs

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 9:29 PM
> 
> >
> > First, userspace may use ioasid in a non-SVA scenario where ioasid is
> > bound to specific security context (e.g. a control vq in vDPA) instead of
> > tying to mm. In this case there is no pgtable binding initiated from user
> > space. Instead, ioasid is allocated from /dev/ioasid and then programmed
> > to the intended security context through specific passthrough framework
> > which manages that context.
> 
> This sounds like the exact opposite of what I'd like to see.
> 
> I do not want to see every subsystem gaining APIs to program a
> PASID. All of that should be consolidated in *one place*.
> 
> I do not want to see VDPA and VFIO have two nearly identical sets of
> APIs to control the PASID.
> 
> Drivers consuming a PASID, like VDPA, should consume the PASID and do
> nothing more than authorize the HW to use it.
> 
> quemu should have general code under the viommu driver that drives
> /dev/ioasid to create PASID's and manage the IO mapping according to
> the guest's needs.
> 
> Drivers like VDPA and VFIO should simply accept that PASID and
> configure/authorize their HW to do DMA's with its tag.
> 

I agree with you on consolidating things in one place (especially for the
general SVA support). But here I was referring to an usage without 
pgtable binding (Possibly Jason. W can say more here), where the 
userspace just wants to allocate PASIDs, program/accept PASIDs to 
various workqueues (device specific), and then use MAP/UNMAP 
interface to manage address spaces associated with each PASID. 
I just wanted to point out that the latter two steps are through 
VFIO/VDPA specific interfaces. 

Thanks
Kevin