From: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
To: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
alex.williamson@redhat.com, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com,
joro@8bytes.org
Cc: jean-philippe@linaro.org, kevin.tian@intel.com,
ashok.raj@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, stefanha@gmail.com,
jun.j.tian@intel.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yi.y.sun@intel.com,
hao.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] vfio: Document dual stage control
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:39:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a97ee4e4-4592-8dd8-fbb1-6c2c5579d625@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1594552870-55687-15-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Hi Yi,
On 7/12/20 1:21 PM, Liu Yi L wrote:
> From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
>
> The VFIO API was enhanced to support nested stage control: a bunch of
> new iotcls and usage guideline.
ioctls
>
> Let's document the process to follow to set up nested mode.
>
> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> CC: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> ---
> v3 -> v4:
> *) add review-by from Stefan Hajnoczi
>
> v2 -> v3:
> *) address comments from Stefan Hajnoczi
>
> v1 -> v2:
> *) new in v2, compared with Eric's original version, pasid table bind
> and fault reporting is removed as this series doesn't cover them.
> Original version from Eric.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/20/700
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
> index f1a4d3c..0672c45 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
> @@ -239,6 +239,73 @@ 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 (GIOVA -> GPA or GVA->GPA), while the hypervisor uses stage 2 for
> +VM isolation (GPA -> HPA).
> +
> +Under dual stage translation, 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 as configuration structures and page table
> +formats 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. The guest stage 1 format depends on IOMMU vendor, and
> +it is the same with the nesting configuration method. User space should
> +check the format and configuration method after setting nesting type by
> +using:
> +
> + ioctl(container->fd, VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO, &nesting_info);
> +
> +Details can be found in Documentation/userspace-api/iommu.rst. For Intel
> +VT-d, each stage 1 page table is bound to host by:
> +
> + nesting_op->flags = VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP_BIND_PGTBL;
> + memcpy(&nesting_op->data, &bind_data, sizeof(bind_data));
> + ioctl(container->fd, VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP, nesting_op);
> +
> +As mentioned above, guest OS may use stage 1 for GIOVA->GPA or GVA->GPA.
the guest OS, here and below?
> +GVA->GPA page tables are available when PASID (Process Address Space ID)
> +is exposed to guest. e.g. guest with PASID-capable devices assigned. For
> +such page table binding, the bind_data should include PASID info, which
> +is allocated by guest itself or by host. This depends on hardware vendor.
> +e.g. Intel VT-d requires to allocate PASID from host. This requirement is
> +defined by the Virtual Command Support in VT-d 3.0 spec, guest software
> +running on VT-d should allocate PASID from host kernel.
because VTD 3.0 requires the unicity of the PASID, system wide, instead
of the above repetition.
To allocate PASID
> +from host, user space should check the IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_SYSWIDE_PASID
> +bit of the nesting info reported from host kernel. VFIO reports the nesting
> +info by VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO. User space could allocate PASID from host by:
if SYSWIDE_PASID requirement is exposed, the userspace *must* allocate ...
> +
> + req.flags = VFIO_IOMMU_ALLOC_PASID;
> + ioctl(container, VFIO_IOMMU_PASID_REQUEST, &req);
> +
> +With first stage/level page table bound to host, it allows to combine the
> +guest stage 1 translation along with the hypervisor stage 2 translation to
> +get final address.
> +
> +When the guest invalidates stage 1 related caches, invalidations must be
> +forwarded to the host through
> +
> + nesting_op->flags = VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP_CACHE_INVLD;
> + memcpy(&nesting_op->data, &inv_data, sizeof(inv_data));
> + ioctl(container->fd, VFIO_IOMMU_NESTING_OP, nesting_op);
> +
> +Those invalidations can happen at various granularity levels, page, context,
> +...
> +
> VFIO User API
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I see you dropped the unrecoverable error reporting part of the original
contribution. By the way don't you need any error handling for either of
the use cases on vtd?
>
>
Thanks
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-18 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-12 11:20 [PATCH v5 00/15] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Liu Yi L
2020-07-12 11:20 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] vfio/type1: Refactor vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl() Liu Yi L
2020-07-12 11:20 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] iommu: Report domain nesting info Liu Yi L
2020-07-17 16:29 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 7:20 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:20 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] iommu/smmu: Report empty " Liu Yi L
2020-07-13 13:14 ` Will Deacon
2020-07-14 10:12 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-16 15:39 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-07-16 20:38 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-17 9:09 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-07-17 10:28 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-23 9:44 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-23 9:40 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-17 17:18 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 7:26 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:20 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] vfio/type1: Report iommu nesting info to userspace Liu Yi L
2020-07-17 17:34 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 7:51 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-20 8:33 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 8:51 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] vfio: Add PASID allocation/free support Liu Yi L
2020-07-19 15:38 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 8:03 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-20 8:26 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 8:49 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] iommu/vt-d: Support setting ioasid set to domain Liu Yi L
2020-07-19 15:38 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 8:11 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] vfio/type1: Add VFIO_IOMMU_PASID_REQUEST (alloc/free) Liu Yi L
2020-07-19 15:38 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 8:56 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] iommu: Pass domain to sva_unbind_gpasid() Liu Yi L
2020-07-19 15:37 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 9:06 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] iommu/vt-d: Check ownership for PASIDs from user-space Liu Yi L
2020-07-19 16:06 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 10:18 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-20 12:37 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 12:55 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] vfio/type1: Support binding guest page tables to PASID Liu Yi L
2020-07-20 9:37 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 10:37 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] vfio/type1: Allow invalidating first-level/stage IOMMU cache Liu Yi L
2020-07-20 9:41 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 10:42 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] vfio/type1: Add vSVA support for IOMMU-backed mdevs Liu Yi L
2020-07-20 12:22 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-23 12:05 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] vfio/pci: Expose PCIe PASID capability to guest Liu Yi L
2020-07-20 12:35 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 13:00 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] vfio: Document dual stage control Liu Yi L
2020-07-18 13:39 ` Auger Eric [this message]
2020-07-25 8:54 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-07-12 11:21 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] iommu/vt-d: Support reporting nesting capability info Liu Yi L
2020-07-17 17:14 ` Auger Eric
2020-07-20 13:33 ` Liu, Yi L
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