Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] intel_iommu: allow dynamic switch of IOMMU region

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 06:05:49PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:53:37PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Could you explain why here device address space has things to do with
> > > PCI BARs? I thought BARs are for CPU address space only (so that CPU
> > > can access PCI registers via MMIO manner), am I wrong?
> > 
> > In short, yes.  So, first think about vanilla PCI - most things are
> > PCI-E these days, but the PCI addressing model which was designed for
> > the old hardware is still mostly the same.
> > 
> > With plain PCI, you have a physical bus over which address and data
> > cycles pass.  Those cycles don't distinguish between transfers from
> > host to device or device to host.  Each address cycle just gives which
> > address space: configuration, IO or memory, and an address.
> > 
> > Devices respond to addresses within their BARs, typically such cycles
> > will come from the host, but they don't have to - a device is able to
> > send cycles to another device (peer to peer DMA).  Meanwhile the host
> > bridge will respond to addresses within certain DMA windows,
> > propagating those access onwards to system memory.  How many DMA
> > windows there are, their size, location and whether they're mapped
> > directly or via an IOMMU depends on the model of host bridge.
> > 
> > On x86, traditionally, PCI addresses 0..<somewhere> were simply mapped
> > directly to memory addresses 0..<somewhere>, identity mapping RAM into
> > PCI space.  BARs would be assigned above <somewhere>, so they don't
> > collide.  I suspect old enough machines will have <somewhere> == 2G,
> > leaving 2G..4G for the BARs of 32-bit devices.  More modern x86
> > bridges must have provisions for accessing memory above 4G, but I'm
> > not entirely certain how that works.
> > 
> > PAPR traditionally also had a DMA window from 0..2G, however instead
> > of being direct mapped to RAM, it is always translated via an IOMMU.
> > More modern PAPR systems have that window by default, but allow the
> > OS to remove it and configure up to 2 DMA windows of variable length
> > and page size.  Various other platforms have various other DMA window
> > arrangements.
> > 
> > With PCI-E, of course, upstream and downstream cycles are distinct,
> > and peer to peer DMA isn't usually possible (unless a switch is
> > configured specially to allow it by forwarding cycles from one
> > downstream port to another).  But the address mndel remains logically
> > the same: there is just one PCI memory space and both device BARs and
> > host DMA windows live within it.  Firmware and/or the OS need to know
> > the details of the platform's host bridge, and configure both the BARs
> > and the DMA windows so that they don't collide.
> 
> Thanks for the thorough explanation. :)
> 
> So we should mask out all the MMIO regions (including BAR address
> ranges) for PCI device address space, right?

Uhh.. I think "masking out" is treating the problem backwards.
I think you should allow only a window covering RAM, not take
everything then try to remove MMIO.

> Since they should not be
> able to access such addresses, but system ram?

What is "they"?

> > > I think we should have a big enough IOMMU region size here. If device
> > > writes to invalid addresses, IMHO we should trap it and report to
> > > guest. If we have a smaller size than UINT64_MAX, how we can trap this
> > > behavior and report for the whole address space (it should cover [0,
> > > 2^64-1])?
> > 
> > That's not how the IOMMU works.  How it traps is dependent on the
> > specific IOMMU model, but generally they'll only even look at cycles
> > which lie within the IOMMU's DMA window.  On x86 I'm pretty sure that
> > window will be large, but it won't be 2^64.  It's also likely to have
> > a gap between 2..4GiB to allow room for the BARs of 32-bit devices.
> 
> But for x86 IOMMU region, I don't know anything like "DMA window" -
> device has its own context entry, which will point to a whole page
> table. In that sense I think at least all addresses from (0, 2^39-1)
> should be legal addresses? And that range should depend on how many
> address space bits the specific Intel IOMMU support, currently the
> emulated VT-d one supports 39 bits.

Well, sounds like the DMA window is 0..2^39-1 then.  If there's a
maximum number of bits in the specification - even if those aren't
implemented on any current model - that would also be a reasonable
choice.

Again, I strongly suspect there's a gap in the range 2..4GiB, to allow
for 32-bit BARs.  Maybe not the whole range, but some chunk of it.  I
believe that's what's called the "io hole" on x86.

This more or less has to be there.  If all of 0..4GiB was mapped to
RAM, and you had both a DMA capable device and a 32-bit device hanging
off a PCI-E to PCI bridge, the 32-bit device's BARs could pick up
cycles from the DMA device that were intended to go to RAM.

> An example would be: one with VT-d should be able to map the address
> 3G (0xc0000000, here it is an IOVA address) to any physical address
> he/she wants, as long as he/she setup the page table correctly.
> 
> Hope I didn't miss anything important..
> 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > > +        memory_region_init_alias(&vtd_dev_as->sys_alias, OBJECT(s),
> > > > > +                                 "vtd_sys_alias", 
> > > > > get_system_memory(),
> > > > > +                                 0, 
> > > > > memory_region_size(get_system_memory()));
> > > > 
> > > > I strongly suspect using memory_region_size(get_system_memory()) is
> > > > also incorrect here.  System memory has size UINT64_MAX, but I'll bet
> > > > you you can't actually access all of that via PCI space (again, it
> > > > would collide with actual PCI BARs).  I also suspect you can't reach
> > > > CPU MMIO regions via the PCI DMA space.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, sounds correct.
> > > 
> > > However if so we will have the same problem if without IOMMU? See
> > > pci_device_iommu_address_space() - address_space_memory will be the
> > > default if we have no IOMMU protection, and that will cover e.g. CPU
> > > MMIO regions as well.
> > 
> > True.  That default is basically assuming that both the host bridge's
> > DMA windows, and its outbound IO and memory windows are identity
> > mapped between the system bus and the PCI address space.  I suspect
> > that's rarely 100% true, but it's close enough to work on a fair few
> > platforms.
> > 
> > But since you're building a more accurate model of the x86 host
> > bridge's behaviour here, you might as well try to get it as accurate
> > as possible.
> 
> Yes, but even if we can fix this problem, it should be for the
> no-iommu case as well? If so, I think it might be more suitable for
> another standalone patch.

Hm, perhaps.

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