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

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Message-ID: <20210513134728.GE1002214@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 May 2021 10:47:28 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Auger Eric <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        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>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>, "Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and
 allocation APIs

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 04:01:20PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:

> But.. even if you're exposing page tables to userspace.. with hardware
> that has explicit support for nesting you can probably expose the hw
> tables directly which is great for the cases that works for.  But
> surely for older IOMMUs which don't do nesting you must have some way
> of shadowing guest IO page tables to host IO page tables to translate
> GPA to HPA at least?

I expect this would be in quemu and would be part of the expensive
emulation I suggested. Converting the guest's page table structure
into a sequence of map/unmaps to a non-nestable IOASID.

> If you're doing that, I don't see that converting page table format
> is really any harder

It isn't, but it is a completely different flow and custom from the
normal HW accelerated nesting.

> It might not be a theoretically complete emulation of the vIOMMU, but
> it can support in-practice usage.  In particular it works pretty well
> if your backend has a nice big IOVA range (like x86 IOMMUS) but your
> guest platform typically uses relatively small IOVA windows.  PAPR on
> x86 is exactly that... well.. possibly not the 64-bit window, but
> because of old PAPR platforms that didn't support that, we can choose
> not to advertise that and guests will cope.

So maybe this multi-window thing is generic API somehow. You'll have
to check what Kevin comes up with to ensure it fits in

Jason