Today, ISM devices are completely disallowed for vfio-pci passthrough as
QEMU rejects the device due to an (inappropriate) MSI-X check. Removing
this fence, however, reveals additional deficiencies in the s390x PCI
interception layer that prevent ISM devices from working correctly.
Namely, ISM block write operations have particular requirements in regards
to the alignment, size and order of writes performed that cannot be
guaranteed when breaking up write operations through the typical
vfio_pci_bar_rw paths. Furthermore, ISM requires that legacy/non-MIO
s390 PCI instructions are used, which is also not guaranteed when the I/O
is passed through the typical userspace channels.
This patchset provides a set of fixes related to enabling ISM device
passthrough and includes patches to enable use of a new vfio region that
will allow s390x PCI pass-through devices to perform s390 PCI instructions
in such a way that the same instruction issued on the guest is re-issued
on the host.
Associated kernel patchset:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/19/874
Changes from RFC -> v1:
- Refresh the header sync (built using Eric's 'update-linux-headers:
Include const.h' + manually removed pvrdma_ring.h again)
- Remove s390x/pci: fix pcistb length (already merged)
- Remove s390x/pci: Fix memory_region_access_valid call (already merged)
- Fix bug: s390_pci_vfio_pcistb should use the pre-allocated PCISTB
buffer pcistb_buf rather than allocating/freeing its own.
- New patch: track the PFT (PCI Function Type) separately from guest CLP
response data -- we tell the guest '0' for now due to limitations in
measurement block support, but we can still use the real value provided via
the vfio CLP capabilities to make decisions.
- Use the PFT (pci function type) to determine when to use the region
for PCISTB/PCILG (only for ISM), rather than using the relaxed alignment
bit.
- As a result, the pcistb_default is now updated to also handle the
possibility of relaxed alignment via 2 new functions, pcistb_validate_write
and pcistb_write, which serve as wrappers to the memory_region calls.
- New patch, which partially restores the MSI-X fence for passthrough
devices... Could potentially be squashed with 's390x/pci: MSI-X isn't
strictly required for passthrough' but left separately for now as I felt it
needed a clear commit description of why we should still fence this case.