From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>,
mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
sgarzare@redhat.com, parav@nvidia.com, bob.liu@oracle.com,
hch@infradead.org, willy@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
axboe@kernel.dk, bcrl@kvack.org, corbet@lwn.net
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 08/11] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:53:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfdc418c-7559-c6b1-6d8d-8f3a91a24f2b@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210119050756.600-2-xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Hi,
Documentation comments only:
On 1/18/21 9:07 PM, Xie Yongji wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/vduse.rst | 85 ++
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vduse.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vduse.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9418a7f6646b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vduse.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
> +==================================
> +VDUSE - "vDPA Device in Userspace"
> +==================================
> +
> +vDPA (virtio data path acceleration) device is a device that uses a
> +datapath which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor
> +specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on
> +the hardware or emulated by software. VDUSE is a framework that makes it
> +possible to implement software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace.
> +
> +How VDUSE works
> +------------
> +Each userspace vDPA device is created by the VDUSE_CREATE_DEV ioctl on
> +the VDUSE character device (/dev/vduse). Then a file descriptor pointing
> +to the new resources will be returned, which can be used to implement the
> +userspace vDPA device's control path and data path.
> +
> +To implement control path, the read/write operations to the file descriptor
> +will be used to receive/reply the control messages from/to VDUSE driver.
> +Those control messages are mostly based on the vdpa_config_ops which defines
> +a unified interface to control different types of vDPA device.
> +
> +The following types of messages are provided by the VDUSE framework now:
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_VQ_ADDR: Set the addresses of the different aspects of virtqueue.
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_VQ_NUM: Set the size of virtqueue
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_VQ_READY: Set ready status of virtqueue
> +
> +- VDUSE_GET_VQ_READY: Get ready status of virtqueue
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_VQ_STATE: Set the state (last_avail_idx) for virtqueue
> +
> +- VDUSE_GET_VQ_STATE: Get the state (last_avail_idx) for virtqueue
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_FEATURES: Set virtio features supported by the driver
> +
> +- VDUSE_GET_FEATURES: Get virtio features supported by the device
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_STATUS: Set the device status
> +
> +- VDUSE_GET_STATUS: Get the device status
> +
> +- VDUSE_SET_CONFIG: Write to device specific configuration space
> +
> +- VDUSE_GET_CONFIG: Read from device specific configuration space
> +
> +- VDUSE_UPDATE_IOTLB: Notify userspace to update the memory mapping in device IOTLB
> +
> +Please see include/linux/vdpa.h for details.
> +
> +In the data path, vDPA device's iova regions will be mapped into userspace with
> +the help of VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl on the userspace vDPA device fd:
> +
> +- VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD: get the file descriptor to iova region. Userspace can
> + access this iova region by passing the fd to mmap(2).
> +
> +Besides, the eventfd mechanism is used to trigger interrupt callbacks and
> +receive virtqueue kicks in userspace. The following ioctls on the userspace
> +vDPA device fd are provided to support that:
> +
> +- VDUSE_VQ_SETUP_KICKFD: set the kickfd for virtqueue, this eventfd is used
> + by VDUSE driver to notify userspace to consume the vring.
> +
> +- VDUSE_VQ_SETUP_IRQFD: set the irqfd for virtqueue, this eventfd is used
> + by userspace to notify VDUSE driver to trigger interrupt callbacks.
> +
> +MMU-based IOMMU Driver
> +----------------------
> +In virtio-vdpa case, VDUSE framework implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU
an MMU-based
> +driver to support mapping the kernel dma buffer into the userspace iova
DMA
> +region dynamically.
> +
> +The basic idea behind this driver is treating MMU (VA->PA) as IOMMU (IOVA->PA).
> +The driver will set up MMU mapping instead of IOMMU mapping for the DMA transfer
> +so that the userspace process is able to use its virtual address to access
> +the dma buffer in kernel.
DMA
> +
> +And to avoid security issue, a bounce-buffering mechanism is introduced to
> +prevent userspace accessing the original buffer directly which may contain other
> +kernel data. During the mapping, unmapping, the driver will copy the data from
> +the original buffer to the bounce buffer and back, depending on the direction of
> +the transfer. And the bounce-buffer addresses will be mapped into the user address
> +space instead of the original one.
thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-19 4:59 [RFC v3 00/11] Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Xie Yongji
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 01/11] eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth separately in different cases Xie Yongji
2021-01-20 4:24 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-20 6:52 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-27 3:37 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 9:11 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-28 3:04 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-28 3:08 ` Jens Axboe
2021-01-28 5:12 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-28 3:52 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-28 4:31 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-28 6:08 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 02/11] eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal() Xie Yongji
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 03/11] vdpa: Remove the restriction that only supports virtio-net devices Xie Yongji
2021-01-20 3:46 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-20 6:46 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-20 11:08 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-01-27 3:33 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 8:57 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-01-28 3:11 ` Jason Wang
[not found] ` <20210129150359.caitcskrfhqed73z@steredhat>
2021-01-30 11:33 ` Yongji Xie
2021-02-01 11:05 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-01-27 8:59 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-01-27 9:05 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 04/11] vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb Xie Yongji
2021-01-20 3:44 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-20 6:44 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 05/11] vdpa: shared virtual addressing support Xie Yongji
2021-01-20 5:55 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-20 7:10 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-27 3:43 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-19 4:59 ` [RFC v3 06/11] vhost-vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB Xie Yongji
2021-01-20 6:24 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-20 7:52 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-27 3:51 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 9:27 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 5:07 ` [RFC v3 07/11] vdpa: Pass the netlink attributes to ops.dev_add() Xie Yongji
2021-01-19 5:07 ` [RFC v3 08/11] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Xie Yongji
2021-01-19 14:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-01-20 2:25 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 17:53 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-01-20 2:42 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-26 8:08 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 8:50 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-28 4:27 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-28 6:03 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-28 6:14 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-28 6:43 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-26 8:19 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 8:59 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 5:07 ` [RFC v3 09/11] vduse: Add VDUSE_GET_DEV ioctl Xie Yongji
2021-01-19 5:07 ` [RFC v3 10/11] vduse: grab the module's references until there is no vduse device Xie Yongji
2021-01-26 8:09 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 8:51 ` Yongji Xie
2021-01-19 5:07 ` [RFC v3 11/11] vduse: Introduce a workqueue for irq injection Xie Yongji
2021-01-26 8:17 ` Jason Wang
2021-01-27 9:00 ` Yongji Xie
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