From: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
To: Bharat Bhushan <bbhushan2@marvell.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v9 1/9] hw/vfio/common: Remove error print on mmio region translation by viommu
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:17:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72e3ea5c-c98c-3e02-26d1-b956ee81e30f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR1801MB196612966851882A99A6D3F3E3C60@MWHPR1801MB1966.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
Hi Bharat,
On 4/2/20 11:01 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> Hi Eric/Alex,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:23 PM
>> To: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Bharat Bhushan <bbhushan2@marvell.com>; peter.maydell@linaro.org;
>> peterx@redhat.com; eric.auger.pro@gmail.com; kevin.tian@intel.com;
>> mst@redhat.com; Tomasz Nowicki [C] <tnowicki@marvell.com>;
>> drjones@redhat.com; linuc.decode@gmail.com; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; qemu-
>> arm@nongnu.org; bharatb.linux@gmail.com; jean-philippe@linaro.org;
>> yang.zhong@intel.com; David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v9 1/9] hw/vfio/common: Remove error print on mmio
>> region translation by viommu
>>
>> External Email
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:35:48 +0100
>> Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> On 3/24/20 12:08 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>> [Cc +dwg who originated this warning]
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:16:09 +0530
>>>> Bharat Bhushan <bbhushan2@marvell.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On ARM, the MSI doorbell is translated by the virtual IOMMU.
>>>>> As such address_space_translate() returns the MSI controller MMIO
>>>>> region and we get an "iommu map to non memory area"
>>>>> message. Let's remove this latter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bbhushan2@marvell.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> hw/vfio/common.c | 2 --
>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c index
>>>>> 5ca11488d6..c586edf47a 100644
>>>>> --- a/hw/vfio/common.c
>>>>> +++ b/hw/vfio/common.c
>>>>> @@ -426,8 +426,6 @@ static bool vfio_get_vaddr(IOMMUTLBEntry *iotlb,
>> void **vaddr,
>>>>> &xlat, &len, writable,
>>>>> MEMTXATTRS_UNSPECIFIED);
>>>>> if (!memory_region_is_ram(mr)) {
>>>>> - error_report("iommu map to non memory area %"HWADDR_PRIx"",
>>>>> - xlat);
>>>>> return false;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit confused here, I think we need more justification beyond
>>>> "we hit this warning and we don't want to because it's ok in this
>>>> one special case, therefore remove it". I assume the special case
>>>> is that the device MSI address is managed via the SET_IRQS ioctl and
>>>> therefore we won't actually get DMAs to this range.
>>> Yes exactly. The guest creates a mapping between one giova and this
>>> gpa (corresponding to the MSI controller doorbell) because MSIs are
>>> mapped on ARM. But practically the physical device is programmed with
>>> an host chosen iova that maps onto the physical MSI controller's
>>> doorbell. so the device never performs DMA accesses to this range.
>>>
>>> But I imagine the case that
>>>> was in mind when adding this warning was general peer-to-peer
>>>> between and assigned and emulated device.
>>> yes makes sense.
>>>
>>> Maybe there's an argument to be made
>>>> that such a p2p mapping might also be used in a non-vIOMMU case. We
>>>> skip creating those mappings and drivers continue to work, maybe
>>>> because nobody attempts to do p2p DMA with the types of devices we
>>>> emulate, maybe because p2p DMA is not absolutely reliable on bare
>>>> metal and drivers test it before using it.
>>> MSI doorbells are mapped using the IOMMU_MMIO flag (dma-iommu.c
>>> iommu_dma_get_msi_page).
>>> One idea could be to pass that flag through the IOMMU Notifier
>>> mechanism into the iotlb->perm. Eventually when we get this in
>>> vfio_get_vaddr() we would not print the warning. Could that make sense?
>>
>> Yeah, if we can identify a valid case that doesn't need a warning, that's fine by me.
>> Thanks,
>
> Let me know if I understood the proposal correctly:
>
> virtio-iommu driver in guest will make map (VIRTIO_IOMMU_T_MAP) with VIRTIO_IOMMU_MAP_F_MMIO flag for MSI mapping.
> In qemu, virtio-iommu device will set a new defined flag (say IOMMU_MMIO) in iotlb->perm in memory_region_notify_iommu(). vfio_get_vaddr() will check same flag and will not print the warning.>
> Is above correct?
Yes that's what I had in mind.
Thanks
Eric
>
> Thanks
> -Bharat
>
>>
>> Alex
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-24 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-23 8:46 [PATCH v9 0/9] virtio-iommu: VFIO integration Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 1/9] hw/vfio/common: Remove error print on mmio region translation by viommu Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 23:08 ` Alex Williamson
2020-03-26 17:35 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-26 17:53 ` Alex Williamson
2020-03-27 5:50 ` [EXT] " Bharat Bhushan
2020-04-02 9:01 ` Bharat Bhushan
2020-04-24 14:17 ` Auger Eric [this message]
2020-05-05 9:25 ` Bharat Bhushan
2020-05-05 9:30 ` Auger Eric
2020-05-05 9:46 ` Bharat Bhushan
2020-05-05 10:18 ` Bharat Bhushan
2020-05-05 12:05 ` Auger Eric
2020-05-07 14:40 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 2/9] memory: Add interface to set iommu page size mask Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-26 16:06 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-27 5:33 ` [EXT] " Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-27 8:27 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 3/9] vfio: set iommu page size as per host supported page size Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 4/9] virtio-iommu: set supported page size mask Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-26 15:51 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-27 5:13 ` [EXT] " Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-27 8:28 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 5/9] virtio-iommu: Add iommu notifier for map/unmap Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 6/9] virtio-iommu: Call iommu notifier for attach/detach Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 7/9] virtio-iommu: add iommu replay Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 8/9] virtio-iommu: Implement probe request Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-26 15:48 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-27 5:40 ` [EXT] " Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-27 8:34 ` Auger Eric
2020-04-23 16:09 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-04-24 13:51 ` Auger Eric
2020-05-05 9:06 ` Bharat Bhushan
2020-05-07 14:42 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-23 8:46 ` [PATCH v9 9/9] virtio-iommu: add iommu notifier memory-region Bharat Bhushan
2020-03-23 9:52 ` [PATCH v9 0/9] virtio-iommu: VFIO integration no-reply
2020-03-23 9:59 ` no-reply
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