linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/19] iommufd/viommu: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET/UNSET_VDEV

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Message-ID: <ZtnsaWgeuuy7+cJG@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:37:45 -0700
From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/19] iommufd/viommu: Add
 IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET/UNSET_VDEV_ID ioctl

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 01:03:53PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > Introduce a pair of new ioctls to set/unset a per-viommu virtual device id
> > that should be linked to a physical device id via an idev pointer.
> 
> Given some of the other discussions around CC I suspect we should
> rename these to 'create/destroy virtual device' with an eye that
> eventually they would be extended like other ops with per-CC platform
> data.
> 
> ie this would be the interface to tell the CC trusted world that a
> secure device is being added to a VM with some additional flags..
> 
> Right now it only conveys the vRID parameter of the virtual device
> being created.
>
> A following question is if these objects should have their own IDs in
> the iommufd space too, and then unset is not unset but just a normal
> destroy object. If so then the thing you put in the ids xarray would
> also just be a normal object struct.
> 
> This is probably worth doing if this is going to grow more CC stuff
> later.

Having to admit that I have been struggling to find a better name
than set_vdev_id, I also thought about something similar to that
"create/destroy virtual device', yet was not that confident since
we only have virtual device ID in its data structure. Also, the
virtual device sounds a bit confusing, given we already have idev.

That being said, if we have a clear picture that in the long term
we would extend it to hold more information, I think it could be
a smart move.

Perhaps virtual device can have its own "attach" to vIOMMU? Or
would you still prefer attaching via proxy hwpt_nested?

Thanks
Nicolin