linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] iommufd: Add iommufd fault object

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:26:57 +0800
From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
 Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>
Cc: baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
 Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
 Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
 Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
 Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>, Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
 Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
 Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>,
 "iommu@...ts.linux.dev" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
 "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org"
 <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
 "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] iommufd: Add iommufd fault object

On 3/23/24 1:22 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 04:18:05PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
>> What I have noticed is that,
>> -read interface works fine and I can receive struct tiommu_hwpt_pgfault data.
>> -But once Guest handles the page faults and returns the page response,
>>   the write to fault fd never reaches the kernel. The sequence is like below,
>>   
>>    sqe = io_uring_get_sqe(ring);
>>    io_uring_prep_write(sqe, hwpt->fault_fd, resp, sizeof(*resp), 0);
>>    io_uring_sqe_set_data(sqe, resp);
>>    io_uring_submit(ring);
>>    ret = io_uring_wait_cqe(ring, &cqe);
>>    ....
>> Please find the function here[2]
>>
>> The above cqe wait never returns and hardware times out without receiving
>> page response. My understanding of io_uring default op is that it tries to
>> issue an sqe as non-blocking first. But it looks like the above write sequence
>> ends up in kernel poll_wait() as well.Not sure how we can avoid that for
>> write.
> Ah, right, it is because poll can't be choosy about read/write, it has
> to work equally for both directions. iommufd_fault_fops_poll() never
> returns EPOLLOUT
> 
> It should just always return EPOLLOUT because we don't have any queue
> to manage.

Are you suggesting the poll file operation to be like below?

static __poll_t iommufd_fault_fops_poll(struct file *filep,
                                         struct poll_table_struct *wait)
{
         struct iommufd_fault *fault = filep->private_data;
         __poll_t pollflags = EPOLLOUT;

         poll_wait(filep, &fault->wait_queue, wait);
         mutex_lock(&fault->mutex);
         if (!list_empty(&fault->deliver))
                 pollflags = EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
         mutex_unlock(&fault->mutex);

         return pollflags;
}

The diff is,

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/fault.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/fault.c
index ede16702d433..a33f8aa92575 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/fault.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/fault.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static __poll_t iommufd_fault_fops_poll(struct file 
*filep,
                                         struct poll_table_struct *wait)
  {
         struct iommufd_fault *fault = filep->private_data;
-       __poll_t pollflags = 0;
+       __poll_t pollflags = EPOLLOUT;

         poll_wait(filep, &fault->wait_queue, wait);
         mutex_lock(&fault->mutex);


I was originally thinking that poll file operation is specifically
designed for polling on read events associated with IOMMU faults.

Best regards,
baolu