From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFCv1 04/14] iommufd: Add struct iommufd_viommu and iommufd_viommu_ops
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 17:57:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d18d7fea-642f-4b75-ae11-4a0792b14784@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN9PR11MB5276423A0BFBDA8346E1ED3C8CEB2@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On 2024/5/22 16:58, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Jason Gunthorpe<jgg@nvidia.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 11:56 PM
>>
>> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 08:34:02PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 11:03:53AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 08:47:01PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
>>>>> Add a new iommufd_viommu core structure to represent a vIOMMU
>> instance in
>>>>> the user space, typically backed by a HW-accelerated feature of an
>> IOMMU,
>>>>> e.g. NVIDIA CMDQ-Virtualization (an ARM SMMUv3 extension) and
>> AMD Hardware
>>>>> Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU (vIOMMU).
>>>> I expect this will also be the only way to pass in an associated KVM,
>>>> userspace would supply the kvm when creating the viommu.
>>>>
>>>> The tricky bit of this flow is how to manage the S2. It is necessary
>>>> that the S2 be linked to the viommu:
>>>>
>>>> 1) ARM BTM requires the VMID to be shared with KVM
>>>> 2) AMD and others need the S2 translation because some of the HW
>>>> acceleration is done inside the guest address space
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked closely at AMD but presumably the VIOMMU create will
>>>> have to install the S2 into a DID or something?
>>>>
>>>> So we need the S2 to exist before the VIOMMU is created, but the
>>>> drivers are going to need some more fixing before that will fully
>>>> work.
> Can you elaborate on this point? VIOMMU is a dummy container when
> it's created and the association to S2 comes relevant only until when
> VQUEUE is created inside and linked to a device? then there should be
> a window in between allowing the userspace to configure S2.
>
> Not saying against setting S2 up before vIOMMU creation. Just want
> to better understand the rationale here.
>
>>>> Does the nesting domain create need the viommu as well (in place of
>>>> the S2 hwpt)? That feels sort of natural.
>>> Yes, I had a similar thought initially: each viommu is backed by
>>> a nested IOMMU HW, and a special HW accelerator like VCMDQ could
>>> be treated as an extension on top of that. It might not be very
>>> straightforward like the current design having vintf<->viommu and
>>> vcmdq <-> vqueue though...
>> vqueue should be considered a sub object of the viommu and hold a
>> refcount on the viommu object for its lifetime.
>>
>>> In that case, we can then support viommu_cache_invalidate, which
>>> is quite natural for SMMUv3. Yet, I recall Kevin said that VT-d
>>> doesn't want or need that.
>> Right, Intel currently doesn't need it, but I feel like everyone will
>> need this eventually as the fast invalidation path is quite important.
>>
> yes, there is no need but I don't see any harm of preparing for such
> extension on VT-d. Logically it's clearer, e.g. if we decide to move
> device TLB invalidation to a separate uAPI then vIOMMU is certainly
> a clearer object to carry it. and hardware extensions really looks like
> optimization on software implementations.
>
> and we do need make a decision now, given if we make vIOMMU as
> a generic object for all vendors it may have potential impact on
> the user page fault support which Baolu is working on. the so-called
> fault object will be contained in vIOMMU, which is software managed
> on VT-d/SMMU but passed through on AMD. And probably we don't
> need another handle mechanism in the attach path, suppose the
> vIOMMU object already contains necessary information to find out
> iommufd_object for a reported fault.
Yes, if the vIOMMU object tracks all iommufd devices that it manages.
Best regards,
baolu
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2024-04-13 3:46 ` [PATCH RFCv1 01/14] iommufd: Move iommufd_object to public iommufd header Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 13:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-12 22:40 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-13 22:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-13 3:46 ` [PATCH RFCv1 02/14] iommufd: Swap _iommufd_object_alloc and __iommufd_object_alloc Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 2:29 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-13 3:44 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-13 22:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 03/14] iommufd: Prepare for viommu structures and functions Nicolin Chen
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2024-05-13 2:35 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 04/14] iommufd: Add struct iommufd_viommu and iommufd_viommu_ops Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 14:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 3:34 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-14 15:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 8:58 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-22 9:57 ` Baolu Lu [this message]
2024-05-22 13:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-23 1:43 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 4:01 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-23 5:40 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 12:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-24 2:16 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 13:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-24 2:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 05/14] iommufd: Add IOMMUFD_OBJ_VIOMMU and IOMMUFD_CMD_VIOMMU_ALLOC Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 14:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 4:33 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-14 15:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-15 1:20 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-21 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 0:13 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-22 16:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 06/14] iommufd/selftest: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_ALLOC test coverage Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 07/14] iommufd: Add viommu set/unset_dev_id ops Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 14:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 4:39 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-14 15:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-15 1:59 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-21 18:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-21 22:27 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-22 13:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-23 6:19 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 15:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-24 2:21 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 3:26 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-24 5:24 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 5:57 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-24 7:21 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 13:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-24 13:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-23 5:44 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 6:09 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-23 6:22 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 13:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-12 14:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 08/14] iommufd: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET_DEV_ID ioctl Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 14:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 5:24 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-17 5:14 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-21 18:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 2:15 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-23 6:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 5:40 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-24 7:13 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 13:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-27 1:08 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-28 20:22 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-28 20:33 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-29 2:58 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-29 3:20 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-30 0:28 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-30 0:58 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-30 3:05 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-30 4:26 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-01 21:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-03 3:25 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-06 18:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-06 18:44 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-07 0:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-07 0:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-06-07 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-07 21:19 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-10 12:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-10 20:01 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-10 22:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-10 23:04 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-11 0:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-11 0:44 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-06-11 12:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-11 19:11 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-28 20:30 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-24 13:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 09/14] iommufd/selftest: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET_DEV_ID test coverage Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 10/14] iommufd/selftest: Add IOMMU_TEST_OP_MV_CHECK_DEV_ID Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 11/14] iommufd: Add struct iommufd_vqueue and its related viommu ops Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 12/14] iommufd: Add IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE and IOMMUFD_CMD_VQUEUE_ALLOC Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 15:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 4:41 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-13 22:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-23 6:57 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 4:42 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-24 5:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 6:03 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-23 7:05 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 13/14] iommufd: Add mmap infrastructure Nicolin Chen
2024-05-12 15:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 4:43 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-04-13 3:47 ` [PATCH RFCv1 14/14] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Add user-space use support Nicolin Chen
2024-05-22 8:40 ` [PATCH RFCv1 00/14] Add Tegra241 (Grace) CMDQV Support (part 2/2) Tian, Kevin
2024-05-22 16:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 19:47 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-22 23:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 23:43 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 3:09 ` Nicolin Chen
2024-05-23 12:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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