From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "jean-philippe@linaro.org" <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
"Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Sun, Yi Y" <yi.y.sun@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, "Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@intel.com>,
"Tian, Jun J" <jun.j.tian@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 02/14] iommu: Report domain nesting info
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:00:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MWHPR11MB1645B09EBDC76514ADC897A68C6F0@MWHPR11MB1645.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR11MB1435FC14F2E8AC075DE41205C36E0@DM5PR11MB1435.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
> From: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 8:23 PM
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 5:25 PM
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:55:15AM -0700, Liu Yi L wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * struct iommu_nesting_info - Information for nesting-capable IOMMU.
> > > + * user space should check it before using
> > > + * nesting capability.
> > > + *
> > > + * @size: size of the whole structure
> > > + * @format: PASID table entry format, the same definition with
> > > + * @format of struct iommu_gpasid_bind_data.
> > > + * @features: supported nesting features.
> > > + * @flags: currently reserved for future extension.
> > > + * @data: vendor specific cap info.
> > > + *
> > > + * +---------------+----------------------------------------------------+
> > > + * | feature | Notes |
> > > + *
> >
> +===============+===============================================
> ====
> > =+
> > > + * | SYSWIDE_PASID | Kernel manages PASID in system wide, PASIDs
> used |
> > > + * | | in the system should be allocated by host kernel |
> > > + * +---------------+----------------------------------------------------+
> > > + * | BIND_PGTBL | bind page tables to host PASID, the PASID could |
> > > + * | | either be a host PASID passed in bind request or |
> > > + * | | default PASIDs (e.g. default PASID of aux-domain) |
> > > + * +---------------+----------------------------------------------------+
> > > + * | CACHE_INVLD | mandatory feature for nesting capable IOMMU
> |
> > > + * +---------------+----------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > This feature description is vague about what CACHE_INVLD does and how
> to
> > use it. If I understand correctly, the presence of this feature means
> > that VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP_CACHE_INVLD must be used?
> >
> > The same kind of clarification could be done for SYSWIDE_PASID and
> > BIND_PGTBL too.
>
> For SYSWIDE_PASID and BIND_PGTBL, yes, presence of the feature bit
> means must use. So the two are requirements to user space if it wants
> to setup nesting. While for CACHE_INVLD, it's kind of availability
> here. How about removing CACHE_INVLD as presence of BIND_PGTBL should
> indicates support of CACHE_INVLD?
>
So far this assumption is correct but it may not be true when thinking forward.
For example, a vendor might find a way to allow the owner of 1st-level page
table to directly invalidate cache w/o going through host IOMMU driver. From
this angle I feel explicitly reporting this capability is more robust.
Regarding to the description, what about below?
--
SYSWIDE_PASID: PASIDs are managed in system-wide, instead of per device.
When a device is assigned to userspace or VM, proper uAPI (provided by
userspace driver framework, e.g. VFIO) must be used to allocate/free PASIDs
for the assigned device.
BIND_PGTBL: The owner of the first-level/stage-1 page table must explicitly
bind the page table to associated PASID (either the one specified in bind
request or the default PASID of the iommu domain), through VFIO_IOMMU
_NESTING_OP
CACHE_INVLD: The owner of the first-level/stage-1 page table must
explicitly invalidate the IOMMU cache through VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP,
according to vendor-specific requirement when changing the page table.
--
Thanks
Kevin
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 8:55 [PATCH v3 00/14] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] vfio/type1: Refactor vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl() Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 21:21 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 3:46 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] iommu: Report domain nesting info Liu Yi L
2020-06-26 7:47 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-06-26 16:04 ` Robin Murphy
2020-06-27 6:53 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-30 1:20 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-06-27 6:14 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-29 9:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-29 12:23 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-30 2:00 ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2020-06-30 3:45 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-03 9:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-02 17:54 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 3:53 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] vfio/type1: Report iommu nesting info to userspace Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 18:38 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 6:05 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-03 13:03 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] vfio: Add PASID allocation/free support Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 21:17 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 6:08 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] iommu/vt-d: Support setting ioasid set to domain Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] vfio/type1: Add VFIO_IOMMU_PASID_REQUEST (alloc/free) Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 21:18 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 6:28 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-08 8:16 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-08 19:54 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-09 0:32 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-09 1:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-07-09 2:08 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-09 2:18 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-07-09 2:26 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-09 7:16 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-09 14:27 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-09 18:05 ` Jacob Pan
2020-07-10 5:39 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-10 12:55 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-10 13:03 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] iommu: Pass domain to sva_unbind_gpasid() Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] iommu/vt-d: Check ownership for PASIDs from user-space Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] vfio/type1: Support binding guest page tables to PASID Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 21:19 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 6:46 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] vfio/type1: Allow invalidating first-level/stage IOMMU cache Liu Yi L
2020-07-02 21:19 ` Alex Williamson
2020-07-03 3:47 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] vfio/type1: Add vSVA support for IOMMU-backed mdevs Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] vfio/pci: Expose PCIe PASID capability to guest Liu Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] vfio: Document dual stage control Liu Yi L
2020-06-29 9:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-29 9:24 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-06-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] iommu/vt-d: Support reporting nesting capability info Liu Yi L
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