From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: "Peter Xu" <peterx@redhat.com>, "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 13:45:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <901112b8-c275-987b-d391-658cb3cf5988@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200804203018.GD90726@xz-x1>
On 2020/8/5 上午4:30, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 06:00:34PM +0200, Eugenio Pérez wrote:
>> On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 15:24 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> On 2020/7/2 下午11:45, Peter Xu wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:01:54AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>> So I think we agree that a new notifier is needed?
>>>> Good to me, or a new flag should be easier (IOMMU_NOTIFIER_DEV_IOTLB)?
>>> That should work but I wonder something as following is better.
>>>
>>> Instead of introducing new flags, how about carry the type of event in
>>> the notifier then the device (vhost) can choose the message it want to
>>> process like:
>>>
>>> static vhost_iommu_event(IOMMUNotifier *n, IOMMUTLBEvent *event)
>>>
>>> {
>>>
>>> switch (event->type) {
>>>
>>> case IOMMU_MAP:
>>> case IOMMU_UNMAP:
>>> case IOMMU_DEV_IOTLB_UNMAP:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry, I thought I had this clear but now it seems not so clear to me. Do you mean to add that switch to the current
>> vhost_iommu_unmap_notify, and then the "type" field to the IOMMUTLBEntry? Is that the scope of the changes, or there is
>> something I'm missing?
>>
>> If that is correct, what is the advantage for vhost or other notifiers? I understand that move the IOMMUTLBEntry (addr,
>> len) -> (iova, mask) split/transformation to the different notifiers implementation could pollute them, but this is even a deeper change and vhost is not insterested in other events but IOMMU_UNMAP, isn't?
>>
>> On the other hand, who decide what type of event is? If I follow the backtrace of the assert in
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg01015.html, it seems to me that it should be
>> vtd_process_device_iotlb_desc. How do I know if it should be IOMMU_UNMAP or IOMMU_DEV_IOTLB_UNMAP? If I set it in some
>> function of memory.c, I should decide the type looking the actual notifier, isn't?
> (Since Jason didn't reply yesterday, I'll try to; Jason, feel free to correct
> me...)
>
> IMHO whether to put the type into the IOMMUTLBEntry is not important. The
> important change should be that we introduce IOMMU_DEV_IOTLB_UNMAP (or I'd
> rather call it IOMMU_DEV_IOTLB directly which is shorter and cleaner). With
> that information we can make the failing assertion conditional for MAP/UNMAP
> only.
Or having another dedicated device IOTLB notifier.
> We can also allow dev-iotlb messages to take arbitrary addr_mask (so it
> becomes a length of address range; imho we can keep using addr_mask for
> simplicity, but we can comment for addr_mask that for dev-iotlb it can be not a
> real mask).
Yes.
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-05 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-26 6:41 [RFC v2 0/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-26 6:41 ` [RFC v2 1/1] " Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-26 21:29 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-27 7:26 ` Yan Zhao
2020-06-27 12:57 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-28 1:36 ` Yan Zhao
2020-06-28 7:03 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-28 14:47 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-29 5:51 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-29 13:34 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-30 2:41 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 8:29 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 9:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-30 9:23 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 15:20 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 8:11 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-01 12:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 12:30 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-01 12:41 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-02 3:00 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 15:39 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 8:09 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-02 3:01 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-02 15:45 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-03 7:24 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-03 13:03 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-07 8:03 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-07 19:54 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-08 5:42 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-08 14:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-09 5:58 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-09 14:10 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-10 6:34 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-10 13:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-13 4:04 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-16 1:00 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-16 2:54 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-17 14:18 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-20 4:02 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-20 13:03 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-21 6:20 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-21 15:10 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-04 20:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-05 5:45 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2020-08-11 17:01 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-11 17:10 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-29 15:05 ` [RFC v2 0/1] " Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-03 7:39 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-07-03 10:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-11 17:55 ` [RFC v3 " Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-11 17:55 ` [RFC v3 1/1] memory: Skip bad range assertion if notifier supports arbitrary masks Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-12 2:24 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-12 8:49 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-18 14:24 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-19 7:15 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-19 8:22 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-19 9:36 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-19 15:50 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-20 2:28 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-21 14:12 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-01 3:05 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-01 19:35 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-02 5:13 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-11 18:10 ` [RFC v3 0/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-11 19:27 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-12 14:33 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-12 21:12 ` Peter Xu
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