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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "eduardo@habkost.net" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Jag Raman" <jag.raman@oracle.com>,
	"Beraldo Leal" <bleal@redhat.com>,
	"john.levon@nutanix.com" <john.levon@nutanix.com>,
	"John Johnson" <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>,
	"quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Elena Ufimtseva" <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>,
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	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
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	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/18] pci: isolated address space for PCI bus
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:53:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220202115156-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220202084933.6a7dc35f.alex.williamson@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:49:33AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Alex, what did you refer to?
> 
> My evidence is largely by omission, but that might be that in practice
> it's not used rather than explicitly forbidden.  I note that the bus
> master enable bit specifies:
> 
> 	Bus Master Enable - Controls the ability of a Function to issue
> 		Memory and I/O Read/Write Requests, and the ability of
> 		a Port to forward Memory and I/O Read/Write Requests in
> 		the Upstream direction.
> 
> That would suggest it's possible, but for PCI device assignment, I'm
> not aware of any means through which we could support this.  There is
> no support in the IOMMU core for mapping I/O port space, nor could we
> trap such device initiated transactions to emulate them.  I can't spot
> any mention of I/O port space in the VT-d spec, however the AMD-Vi spec
> does include a field in the device table:
> 
> 	controlIoCtl: port I/O control. Specifies whether
> 	device-initiated port I/O space transactions are blocked,
> 	forwarded, or translated.
> 
> 	00b=Device-initiated port I/O is not allowed. The IOMMU target
> 	aborts the transaction if a port I/O space transaction is
> 	received. Translation requests are target aborted.
> 	
> 	01b=Device-initiated port I/O space transactions are allowed.
> 	The IOMMU must pass port I/O accesses untranslated. Translation
> 	requests are target aborted.
> 	
> 	10b=Transactions in the port I/O space address range are
> 	translated by the IOMMU page tables as memory transactions.
> 
> 	11b=Reserved.
> 
> I don't see this field among the macros used by the Linux driver in
> configuring these device entries, so I assume it's left to the default
> value, ie. zero, blocking device initiated I/O port transactions.
> 
> So yes, I suppose device initiated I/O port transactions are possible,
> but we have no support or reason to support them, so I'm going to go
> ahead and continue believing any I/O port address space from the device
> perspective is largely irrelevant ;)  Thanks,
> 
> Alex

Right, it would seem devices can initiate I/O space transactions but IOMMUs
don't support virtualizing them and so neither does VFIO.


-- 
MST



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-02 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-19 21:41 [PATCH v5 00/18] vfio-user server in QEMU Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 01/18] configure, meson: override C compiler for cmake Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-20 13:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-01-20 15:21     ` Jag Raman
2022-02-17  6:10     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 02/18] tests/avocado: Specify target VM argument to helper routines Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25  9:40   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 03/18] pci: isolated address space for PCI bus Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-20  0:12   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-20 15:20     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-25 18:38       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-01-26  5:27         ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26  9:45           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26 20:07             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-01-26 21:13               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-27  8:30                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-27 12:50                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-27 21:22                   ` Alex Williamson
2022-01-28  8:19                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-28  9:18                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-31 16:16                       ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-01  9:30                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-02-01 15:24                           ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-01 21:24                             ` Jag Raman
2022-02-01 22:47                               ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-02  1:13                                 ` Jag Raman
2022-02-02  5:34                                   ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-02  9:22                                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-02-10  0:08                                     ` Jag Raman
2022-02-10  8:02                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-10 22:23                                         ` Jag Raman
2022-02-10 22:53                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-10 23:46                                             ` Jag Raman
2022-02-10 23:17                                           ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-10 23:28                                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-10 23:49                                               ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-11  0:26                                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-11  0:54                                                   ` Jag Raman
2022-02-11  0:10                                             ` Jag Raman
2022-02-02  9:30                                 ` Peter Maydell
2022-02-02 10:06                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-02 15:49                                     ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-02 16:53                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2022-02-02 17:12                                   ` Alex Williamson
2022-02-01 10:42                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-01-26 18:13           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-01-27 17:43             ` Jag Raman
2022-01-25  9:56   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-25 13:49     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-25 14:19       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 04/18] pci: create and free isolated PCI buses Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 10:25   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-25 14:10     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 05/18] qdev: unplug blocker for devices Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 10:27   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-25 14:43     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26  9:32       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26 15:13         ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 06/18] vfio-user: add HotplugHandler for remote machine Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 10:32   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-25 18:12     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26  9:35       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26 15:20         ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26 15:43           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 07/18] vfio-user: set qdev bus callbacks " Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 10:44   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-25 21:12     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26  9:37       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26 15:51         ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 08/18] vfio-user: build library Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 09/18] vfio-user: define vfio-user-server object Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 14:40   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:41 ` [PATCH v5 10/18] vfio-user: instantiate vfio-user context Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 14:44   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 11/18] vfio-user: find and init PCI device Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 14:48   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26  3:14     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 12/18] vfio-user: run vfio-user context Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 15:10   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26  3:26     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 13/18] vfio-user: handle PCI config space accesses Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 15:13   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 14/18] vfio-user: handle DMA mappings Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 15/18] vfio-user: handle PCI BAR accesses Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 16/18] vfio-user: handle device interrupts Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 15:25   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 17/18] vfio-user: register handlers to facilitate migration Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-25 15:48   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-27 17:04     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-28  8:29       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-28 14:49         ` Thanos Makatos
2022-02-01  3:49         ` Jag Raman
2022-02-01  9:37           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-19 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 18/18] vfio-user: avocado tests for vfio-user Jagannathan Raman
2022-01-26  4:25   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
2022-01-26 15:12     ` Jag Raman
2022-01-25 16:00 ` [PATCH v5 00/18] vfio-user server in QEMU Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-01-26  5:04   ` Jag Raman
2022-01-26  9:56     ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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