linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] iommu cleanup and refactoring

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:51:36 +0800
From:   Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] iommu cleanup and refactoring

On 1/25/22 11:16 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 02:48:02PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>   
>> Agreed, certainly an IOMMU_DOMAIN_SVA type that can both encapsulate the mm
>> and effectively replace iommu_sva seems like a logical and fairly small next
>> step. We already have the paradigm of different domain types supporting
>> different ops, so initially an SVA domain would simply allow bind/unbind
>> rather than attach/detach/map/unmap.
> 
> I hope we can quickly get to a PASID enabled generic attach/detach
> scheme - we really need this to do the uAPI part of this interface.

Agreed. Jacob is working on kernel DMA with PASID. He needs such
interfaces as well. I have worked out an implementation for vt-d driver.
It could be post for review inside Jacob's series for kernel DMA with
PASID.

> 
>> they are fundamentally different things in their own right, and the ideal
>> API should give us the orthogonality to also bind a device to an SVA domain
>> without PASID (e.g. for KVM stage 2, or userspace assignment of simpler
>> fault/stall-tolerant devices), or attach PASIDs to regular iommu_domains.
> 
> Yes, these are orthogonal things. A iommu driver that supports PASID
> ideally should support PASID enabled attach/detatch for every
> iommu_domain type it supports.
> 
> SVA should not be entangled with PASID beyond that SVA is often used
> with PASID - a SVA iommu_domain should be fully usable with a RID too.

The prototype of PASID enabled attach/detach ops could look like:

        int (*attach_dev_pasid)(struct iommu_domain *domain,
                                struct device *dev, ioasid_t id);
        void (*detach_dev_pasid)(struct iommu_domain *domain,
                                 struct device *dev, ioasid_t id);

But the iommu driver should implement different callbacks for

1) attaching an IOMMU DMA domain to a PASID on device;
    - kernel DMA with PASID
    - mdev-like device passthrough
    - etc.
2) attaching a CPU-shared domain to a PASID on device;
    - SVA
    - guest PASID
    - etc.

> 
> I'm hoping to see the core iommu code provide some simplified "SVA"
> API that under the covers creates a SVA domain and then does a normal
> PASID attach using the global PASID in the mm_struct - the
> driver should not care what, or even if, PASID is used for a SVA
> domain.
> 
> Jason
> 

Best regards,
baolu