From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E1EC74A54 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2D52166E for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728719AbfGKN7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:59:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36588 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728655AbfGKN7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:59:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEF75C057F2E; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop.redhat.com (ovpn-116-46.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.46]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D71560A97; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric Auger To: eric.auger.pro@gmail.com, eric.auger@redhat.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, joro@8bytes.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com, yi.l.liu@intel.com, jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, vincent.stehle@arm.com, zhangfei.gao@gmail.com, tina.zhang@intel.com Subject: [PATCH v9 11/11] vfio: Document nested stage control Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:56:25 +0200 Message-Id: <20190711135625.20684-12-eric.auger@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190711135625.20684-1-eric.auger@redhat.com> References: <20190711135625.20684-1-eric.auger@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.32]); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org The VFIO API was enhanced to support nested stage control: a bunch of new iotcls, one DMA FAULT region and an associated specific IRQ. Let's document the process to follow to set up nested mode. Signed-off-by: Eric Auger --- v8 -> v9: - new names for SET_MSI_BINDING and SET_PASID_TABLE - new layout for the DMA FAULT memory region and specific IRQ v2 -> v3: - document the new fault API v1 -> v2: - use the new ioctl names - add doc related to fault handling --- Documentation/vfio.txt | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/vfio.txt b/Documentation/vfio.txt index f1a4d3c3ba0b..563ebcec9224 100644 --- a/Documentation/vfio.txt +++ b/Documentation/vfio.txt @@ -239,6 +239,83 @@ group and can access them as follows:: /* Gratuitous device reset and go... */ ioctl(device, VFIO_DEVICE_RESET); +IOMMU Dual Stage Control +------------------------ + +Some IOMMUs support 2 stages/levels of translation. "Stage" corresponds to +the ARM terminology while "level" corresponds to Intel's VTD terminology. In +the following text we use either without distinction. + +This is useful when the guest is exposed with a virtual IOMMU and some +devices are assigned to the guest through VFIO. Then the guest OS can use +stage 1 (IOVA -> GPA), while the hypervisor uses stage 2 for VM isolation +(GPA -> HPA). + +The guest gets ownership of the stage 1 page tables and also owns stage 1 +configuration structures. The hypervisor owns the root configuration structure +(for security reason), including stage 2 configuration. This works as long +configuration structures and page table format are compatible between the +virtual IOMMU and the physical IOMMU. + +Assuming the HW supports it, this nested mode is selected by choosing the +VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU type through: + +ioctl(container, VFIO_SET_IOMMU, VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU); + +This forces the hypervisor to use the stage 2, leaving stage 1 available for +guest usage. + +Once groups are attached to the container, the guest stage 1 translation +configuration data can be passed to VFIO by using + +ioctl(container, VFIO_IOMMU_SET_PASID_TABLE, &pasid_table_info); + +This allows to combine the guest stage 1 configuration structure along with +the hypervisor stage 2 configuration structure. Stage 1 configuration +structures are dependent on the IOMMU type. + +As the stage 1 translation is fully delegated to the HW, translation faults +encountered during the translation process need to be propagated up to +the virtualizer and re-injected into the guest. + +The userspace must be prepared to receive faults. The VFIO-PCI device +exposes one dedicated DMA FAULT region: it contains a ring buffer and +its header that allows to manage the head/tail indices. The region is +identified by the following index/subindex: +- VFIO_REGION_TYPE_NESTED/VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_NESTED_DMA_FAULT + +The DMA FAULT region exposes a VFIO_REGION_INFO_CAP_PRODUCER_FAULT +region capability that allows the userspace to retrieve the ABI version +of the fault records filled by the host. + +On top of that region, the userspace can be notified whenever a fault +occurs at the physical level. It can use the VFIO_IRQ_TYPE_NESTED/ +VFIO_IRQ_SUBTYPE_DMA_FAULT specific IRQ to attach the eventfd to be +signalled. + +The ring buffer containing the fault records can be mmapped. When +the userspace consumes a fault in the queue, it should increment +the consumer index to allow new fault records to replace the used ones. + +The queue size and the entry size can be retrieved in the header. +The tail index should never overshoot the producer index as in any +other circular buffer scheme. Also it must be less than the queue size +otherwise the change fails. + +When the guest invalidates stage 1 related caches, invalidations must be +forwarded to the host through +ioctl(container, VFIO_IOMMU_CACHE_INVALIDATE, &inv_data); +Those invalidations can happen at various granularity levels, page, context, ... + +The ARM SMMU specification introduces another challenge: MSIs are translated by +both the virtual SMMU and the physical SMMU. To build a nested mapping for the +IOVA programmed into the assigned device, the guest needs to pass its IOVA/MSI +doorbell GPA binding to the host. Then the hypervisor can build a nested stage 2 +binding eventually translating into the physical MSI doorbell. + +This is achieved by calling +ioctl(container, VFIO_IOMMU_SET_MSI_BINDING, &guest_binding); + VFIO User API ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 2.20.1