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Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/8] RFC: VFIO and guest side IOMMUs, revisited


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/8] RFC: VFIO and guest side IOMMUs, revisited
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:58:16 +0200
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Il 14/05/2013 04:39, David Gibson ha scritto:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>> Il 13/05/2013 15:13, David Gibson ha scritto:
>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:23:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> Il 13/05/2013 12:54, David Gibson ha scritto:
>>>>> Specifically the way the iommu is determined from a
>>>>> callback in the PCIBus means that it won't be assigned for
>>>>> devices under a PCI-PCI bridge.
>>>> 
>>>> Right.  I saw the report from Alexey, but I am a bit wary of
>>>>  touching it because it's not a regression.  In fact there
>>>> is even a FIXME for it:
>>>> 
>>>> /* FIXME: inherit memory region from bus creator */
>>> 
>>> Uh.. sort of.
>>> 
>>>> Perhaps we can make pci_iommu_as a Bus method, where the
>>>> default implementation looks up along the chain, and the end
>>>> of the recursion is in SysBus or in PCI buses that have set
>>>> the callback.
>>> 
>>> So, this is complicated by the fact that there are two cases,
>>> and they can both be found in existing hardware.
>>> 
>>> 1) One is where devices behind the bridge are not visible / 
>>> differentiable to the IOMMU, and so effectively all their DMAs
>>>  originate from the bridge device itself.  In this case the
>>> correct thing is to give all devices under the bridge the same
>>> DMA AddressSpace as the bridge device, as suggested by the
>>> FIXME. This will be typical behaviour for PCI-E to PCI
>>> bridges.
>>> 
>>> 2) The other case is where the bridge passes through RIDs, so
>>> that the IOMMU can still differentiate devices behind it.  For
>>> this case, we really want the hook to be in the host bridge /
>>> root bus, and it can make a decision based on the full
>>> bus/dev/fn information.  This will be typical for PCI-E to
>>> PCI-E bridges (or switches or nexuses or whatever they're
>>> usually called for PCI-E). This case will be very important as
>>> we start to model newer PCI-E based machines by default, where
>>> typically *all* devices are behind a logical p2p bridge inside
>>> the root complex (but are still differentiable by the Intel
>>> IOMMU amongst others).
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure at this stage how to properly handle both cases.
>> 
>> Suppose you have a host bridge pci_bus0 and a PCIE->PCIE bridge 
>> pci_bus1.  pci_bus1 does not define a IOMMU callback, pci_bus0
>> does.
>> 
>> Would it work to use the PCIBus callback provided by pci_bus0,
>> but invoke it as
>> 
>> pci_bus0->iommu_fn(pci_bus1, pci_bus0->iommu_opaque, devfn)
> 
> Hrm.  I'm a bit nervous about that, because I think when writing
> an iommu_fn it would be very easy to forget that it could be called
> with a bus other than the one the hook is attached to - and e.g.
> assuming they can use bus->qbus.parent_dev to get to the host
> bridge.

I think we can fix that by removing the opaque, and just passing in
the PCIBus.

Then it's more obvious

   pci_bus0->iommu_fn(pci_bus0, pci_bus1, devfn)

and almost the same, since the host bridge is just a container_of away
from pci_bus0.

Paolo
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