netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tun: fix tun_xdp_one() for IFF

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:00:19 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tun: fix tun_xdp_one() for IFF_TUN mode


在 2021/6/22 下午3:28, David Woodhouse 写道:
> On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 12:34 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> Secondly, I need to pull numbers out of my posterior for the
>>> VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE call. This works for x86_64:
>>>
>>>         vmem->nregions = 1;
>>>         vmem->regions[0].guest_phys_addr = 4096;
>>>         vmem->regions[0].memory_size = 0x7fffffffe000;
>>>         vmem->regions[0].userspace_addr = 4096;
>>>         if (ioctl(vpninfo->vhost_fd, VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE, vmem) < 0) {
>>>
>>> Is there a way to bypass that and just unconditionally set a 1:1
>>> mapping of *all* userspace address space?
>>
>> Memory Table is one of the basic abstraction of the vhost. Basically,
>> you only need to map the userspace buffers. This is how DPDK virtio-user
>> PMD did. Vhost will validate the addresses through access_ok() during
>> VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE.
>>
>> The range of all usersapce space seems architecture specific, I'm not
>> sure if it's worth to bother.
> The buffers are just malloc'd. I just need a full 1:1 mapping of all
> "guest" memory to userspace addresses, and was trying to avoid having
> to map them on demand *just* because I don't know the full range of
> possible addresses that malloc will return, in advance.
>
> I'm tempted to add a new feature for that 1:1 access, with no ->umem or
> ->iotlb at all. And then I can use it as a key to know that the XDP
> bugs are fixed too :)


This means we need validate the userspace address each time before vhost 
tries to use that. This will de-gradate the performance. So we still 
need to figure out the legal userspace address range which might not be 
easy.

Thanks


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