linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 6/8] mshv: command line option to skip devices in PV-IOMMU

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Message-ID: <1c839a00-0f5f-fdfa-cfb3-f345bef9f849@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:46:19 +0100
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Linux on Hyper-V List <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        pasha.tatashin@...een.com, kumarpraveen@...ux.microsoft.com,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "open list:IOMMU DRIVERS" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 6/8] mshv: command line option to skip devices in
 PV-IOMMU

On 2021-07-09 12:43, Wei Liu wrote:
> Some devices may have been claimed by the hypervisor already. One such
> example is a user can assign a NIC for debugging purpose.
> 
> Ideally Linux should be able to tell retrieve that information, but
> there is no way to do that yet. And designing that new mechanism is
> going to take time.
> 
> Provide a command line option for skipping devices. This is a stopgap
> solution, so it is intentionally undocumented. Hopefully we can retire
> it in the future.

Huh? If the host is using a device, why the heck is it exposing any 
knowledge of that device to the guest at all, let alone allowing the 
guest to do anything that could affect its operation!?

Robin.

> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/iommu/hyperv-iommu.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/hyperv-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/hyperv-iommu.c
> index 043dcff06511..353da5036387 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/hyperv-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/hyperv-iommu.c
> @@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops hyperv_root_ir_domain_ops = {
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_HYPERV_ROOT_PVIOMMU
>   
> +/* The IOMMU will not claim these PCI devices. */
> +static char *pci_devs_to_skip;
> +static int __init mshv_iommu_setup_skip(char *str) {
> +	pci_devs_to_skip = str;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +/* mshv_iommu_skip=(SSSS:BB:DD.F)(SSSS:BB:DD.F) */
> +__setup("mshv_iommu_skip=", mshv_iommu_setup_skip);
> +
>   /* DMA remapping support */
>   struct hv_iommu_domain {
>   	struct iommu_domain domain;
> @@ -774,6 +784,41 @@ static struct iommu_device *hv_iommu_probe_device(struct device *dev)
>   	if (!dev_is_pci(dev))
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Skip the PCI device specified in `pci_devs_to_skip`. This is a
> +	 * temporary solution until we figure out a way to extract information
> +	 * from the hypervisor what devices it is already using.
> +	 */
> +	if (pci_devs_to_skip && *pci_devs_to_skip) {
> +		int pos = 0;
> +		int parsed;
> +		int segment, bus, slot, func;
> +		struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
> +
> +		do {
> +			parsed = 0;
> +
> +			sscanf(pci_devs_to_skip + pos,
> +				" (%x:%x:%x.%x) %n",
> +				&segment, &bus, &slot, &func, &parsed);
> +
> +			if (parsed <= 0)
> +				break;
> +
> +			if (pci_domain_nr(pdev->bus) == segment &&
> +				pdev->bus->number == bus &&
> +				PCI_SLOT(pdev->devfn) == slot &&
> +				PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn) == func)
> +			{
> +				dev_info(dev, "skipped by MSHV IOMMU\n");
> +				return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +			}
> +
> +			pos += parsed;
> +
> +		} while (pci_devs_to_skip[pos]);
> +	}
> +
>   	vdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*vdev), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!vdev)
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>