From: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
To: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"okaya@codeaurora.org" <okaya@codeaurora.org>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"liguozhu@hisilicon.com" <liguozhu@hisilicon.com>,
"christian.koenig@amd.com" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
Robin Murphy <Robin.Murphy@arm.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 03/10] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:22:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A2975661238FB949B60364EF0F2C257439D0CC48@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f53c6f1-4e7a-1451-1abc-a7bca4a2359d@arm.com>
> From: iommu-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org [mailto:iommu-
> bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Brucker
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces
>
> On 26/09/2018 13:45, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:20:34AM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> >> Yes, at the moment it's difficult to guess what device drivers will
> >> want, but I can imagine some driver offering SVA to userspace, while
> >> keeping a few PASIDs for themselves to map kernel memory. Or create mdev
> >> devices for virtualization while also allowing bare-metal SVA. So I
> >> think we should aim at enabling these use-cases in parallel, even if it
> >> doesn't necessarily need to be possible right now.
> >
> > Yeah okay, but allowing these use-cases in parallel basically disallows
> > giving any guest control over a device's pasid-table, no?
> All of these use-cases require the host to manage the PASID tables, so
> while any one of them is enabled, we can't give a guest control over the
> PASID tables. But allowing these use-cases in parallel doesn't change that.
>
> There is an ambiguity: I understand "(3) SVA in VM guest" as SVA for a
> device-assignable interface assigned to a guest, using vfio-mdev and the
> new Intel vt-d architecture (right?). That case does require the host to
> allocate and manage PASIDs (because the PCI device is shared between
> multiple VMs).
Correct. For such case, we give host the charge to allocate and manage PASIDs.
And the reason is correct.
>
> For the "classic" vfio-pci case, "SVA in guest" still means giving the
> guest control over the whole PASID table.
No, if giving guest control over the whole PASID table, it means guest may have
its own PASID namespace. right? And for vfio-mdev case, it gets PASID from host.
So there would be multiple PASID namespaces. Thinking about the following scenario:
A PF/VF assigned to a VM via "classic" vfio-pci. And an assignable-device-interface
assigned to this VM via vfio-mdev. If an application in this VM tries to manipulate
these two "devices", it should have the same PASID programmed to them. right?
But as the above comments mentioned, for vfio-pci case, it would get a PASID from
its own PASID namespace. While the vfio-mdev case would get a PASID from host.
This would result in conflict.
So I would like we get host to allocate and manage the whole PASID table, so that
to cover possible combinations of vfio-pci passthru and vfio-mdev passthru.
>
> Thanks,
> Jean
Regards,
Yi Liu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-27 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 17:00 [PATCH v3 00/10] Shared Virtual Addressing for the IOMMU Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] iommu: Introduce Shared Virtual Addressing API Jean-Philippe Brucker
[not found] ` <f406bcf7-4e54-9f1b-88eb-03fc642ffede@linux.intel.com>
2018-09-24 12:07 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-25 13:16 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-25 22:46 ` Jacob Pan
2018-09-26 10:14 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-26 12:48 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] iommu/sva: Bind process address spaces to devices Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-23 3:05 ` Lu Baolu
2018-09-24 12:07 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-26 18:01 ` Jacob Pan
2018-09-27 15:06 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-28 1:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-25 3:15 ` Lu Baolu
2018-09-25 10:32 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-26 3:12 ` Lu Baolu
2018-09-25 13:26 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-25 23:33 ` Lu Baolu
2018-09-26 10:20 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-26 12:45 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-09-26 13:50 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-27 3:22 ` Liu, Yi L [this message]
2018-09-27 13:37 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-10-08 8:29 ` Liu, Yi L
2018-09-26 22:58 ` Jacob Pan
2018-09-26 22:35 ` Jacob Pan
2018-10-03 17:52 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-10-15 20:53 ` Jacob Pan
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] iommu/sva: Add a mm_exit callback for device drivers Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] iommu/sva: Track mm changes with an MMU notifier Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] iommu/sva: Search mm by PASID Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-25 4:59 ` Lu Baolu
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] iommu: Add a page fault handler Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-27 20:37 ` Jacob Pan
2018-10-03 17:46 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] iommu/iopf: Handle mm faults Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] iommu/sva: Register page fault handler Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-09-20 17:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/10] iommu/sva: Add support for private PASIDs Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-10-12 14:32 ` Jordan Crouse
2018-10-17 14:21 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-10-17 14:24 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2018-10-17 15:07 ` Jordan Crouse
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