From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: Shenming Lu <lushenming@huawei.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
"wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com" <wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com>,
"yuzenghui@huawei.com" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] vfio: Add IOPF support for VFIO passthrough
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:07:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MWHPR11MB188656845973A662A7E96BDA8C699@MWHPR11MB1886.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f904b23-e434-d42b-15a9-a410f3b4edb9@huawei.com>
> From: Shenming Lu <lushenming@huawei.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:53 PM
>
> On 2021/2/4 14:52, Tian, Kevin wrote:>>> In reality, many
> >>> devices allow I/O faulting only in selective contexts. However, there
> >>> is no standard way (e.g. PCISIG) for the device to report whether
> >>> arbitrary I/O fault is allowed. Then we may have to maintain device
> >>> specific knowledge in software, e.g. in an opt-in table to list devices
> >>> which allows arbitrary faults. For devices which only support selective
> >>> faulting, a mediator (either through vendor extensions on vfio-pci-core
> >>> or a mdev wrapper) might be necessary to help lock down non-faultable
> >>> mappings and then enable faulting on the rest mappings.
> >>
> >> For devices which only support selective faulting, they could tell it to the
> >> IOMMU driver and let it filter out non-faultable faults? Do I get it wrong?
> >
> > Not exactly to IOMMU driver. There is already a vfio_pin_pages() for
> > selectively page-pinning. The matter is that 'they' imply some device
> > specific logic to decide which pages must be pinned and such knowledge
> > is outside of VFIO.
> >
> > From enabling p.o.v we could possibly do it in phased approach. First
> > handles devices which tolerate arbitrary DMA faults, and then extends
> > to devices with selective-faulting. The former is simpler, but with one
> > main open whether we want to maintain such device IDs in a static
> > table in VFIO or rely on some hints from other components (e.g. PF
> > driver in VF assignment case). Let's see how Alex thinks about it.
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> You mentioned selective-faulting some time ago. I still have some doubt
> about it:
> There is already a vfio_pin_pages() which is used for limiting the IOMMU
> group dirty scope to pinned pages, could it also be used for indicating
> the faultable scope is limited to the pinned pages and the rest mappings
> is non-faultable that should be pinned and mapped immediately? But it
> seems to be a little weird and not exactly to what you meant... I will
> be grateful if you can help to explain further. :-)
>
The opposite, i.e. the vendor driver uses vfio_pin_pages to lock down
pages that are not faultable (based on its specific knowledge) and then
the rest memory becomes faultable.
Thanks
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-18 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-25 9:03 [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] vfio: Add IOPF support for VFIO passthrough Shenming Lu
2021-01-25 9:03 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/4] vfio/type1: Add a bitmap to track IOPF mapped pages Shenming Lu
2021-01-29 22:58 ` Alex Williamson
2021-01-30 9:31 ` Shenming Lu
2021-01-25 9:04 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] vfio: Add a page fault handler Shenming Lu
2021-01-27 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 6:10 ` Shenming Lu
2021-01-25 9:04 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/4] vfio: Try to enable IOPF for VFIO devices Shenming Lu
2021-01-29 22:42 ` Alex Williamson
2021-01-30 9:31 ` Shenming Lu
2021-01-25 9:04 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/4] vfio: Allow to pin and map dynamically Shenming Lu
2021-01-29 22:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] vfio: Add IOPF support for VFIO passthrough Alex Williamson
2021-01-30 9:30 ` Shenming Lu
2021-02-01 7:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-02-02 6:41 ` Shenming Lu
2021-02-04 6:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-02-05 10:37 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2021-02-07 8:20 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-02-07 11:47 ` Shenming Lu
2021-02-09 11:06 ` Liu, Yi L
2021-02-10 8:02 ` Shenming Lu
2021-03-18 7:53 ` Shenming Lu
2021-03-18 9:07 ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2021-03-18 11:53 ` Shenming Lu
2021-03-18 12:32 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-03-18 12:47 ` Shenming Lu
2021-03-19 0:33 ` Lu Baolu
2021-03-19 1:30 ` Keqian Zhu
2021-03-20 1:35 ` Lu Baolu
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