linux-kernel - Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:26:11 +1000
From:   David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "parav@...lanox.com" <parav@...lanox.com>,
        "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Shenming Lu <lushenming@...wei.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>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 8:20 AM
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 03:14:52PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > > I've referred to this as a limitation of type1, that we can't put
> > > devices within the same group into different address spaces, such as
> > > behind separate vRoot-Ports in a vIOMMU config, but really, who cares?
> > > As isolation support improves we see fewer multi-device groups, this
> > > scenario becomes the exception.  Buy better hardware to use the devices
> > > independently.
> > 
> > This is basically my thinking too, but my conclusion is that we should
> > not continue to make groups central to the API.
> > 
> > As I've explained to David this is actually causing functional
> > problems and mess - and I don't see a clean way to keep groups central
> > but still have the device in control of what is happening. We need
> > this device <-> iommu connection to be direct to robustly model all
> > the things that are in the RFC.
> > 
> > To keep groups central someone needs to sketch out how to solve
> > today's mdev SW page table and mdev PASID issues in a clean
> > way. Device centric is my suggestion on how to make it clean, but I
> > haven't heard an alternative??
> > 
> > So, I view the purpose of this discussion to scope out what a
> > device-centric world looks like and then if we can securely fit in the
> > legacy non-isolated world on top of that clean future oriented
> > API. Then decide if it is work worth doing or not.
> > 
> > To my mind it looks like it is not so bad, granted not every detail is
> > clear, and no code has be sketched, but I don't see a big scary
> > blocker emerging. An extra ioctl or two, some special logic that
> > activates for >1 device groups that looks a lot like VFIO's current
> > logic..
> > 
> > At some level I would be perfectly fine if we made the group FD part
> > of the API for >1 device groups - except that complexifies every user
> > space implementation to deal with that. It doesn't feel like a good
> > trade off.
> > 
> 
> Would it be an acceptable tradeoff by leaving >1 device groups 
> supported only via legacy VFIO (which is anyway kept for backward 
> compatibility), if we think such scenario is being deprecated over 
> time (thus little value to add new features on it)? Then all new 
> sub-systems including vdpa and new vfio only support singleton 
> device group via /dev/iommu...

The case that worries me here is if you *thought* you had 1 device
groups, but then discover a hardware bug which means two things aren't
as isolated as you thought they were.  What do you do then?

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