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Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device
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Peter Xu |
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Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:13:03 -0400 |
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:53:16AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:04:24AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > This makes me wonder whether there is a deeper issue with the
> > > pci_setup_iommu() API: the lack of per-device cleanup callbacks.
> > > Per-device IOMMU resources should be freed when a device is hot
> > > unplugged.
> > >
> > > From what I can tell this is not the case today:
> > >
> > > - hw/i386/intel_iommu.c:vtd_find_add_as() allocates and adds device
> > > address spaces but I can't find where they are removed and freed.
> > > VTDAddressSpace instances pointed to from vtd_bus->dev_as[] are leaked.
> > >
> > > - hw/i386/amd_iommu.c has similar leaks.
> >
> > AFAICT it's because there's no device-specific data cached in the
> > per-device IOMMU address space, at least so far. IOW, all the data
> > structures allocated here can be re-used when a new device is plugged in
> > after the old device unplugged.
> >
> > It's definitely not ideal since after unplug (and before a new device
> > plugged in) the resource is not needed at all so it's kind of wasted, but
> > it should work functionally. If to achieve that, some iommu_unplug() or
> > iommu_cleanup() hook sounds reasonable.
>
> I guess the question is whether PCI busses can be hotplugged with
> IOMMUs. If yes, then there is a memory leak that matters for
> intel_iommu.c and amd_iommu.c.
It can't, and we only support one vIOMMU so far for both (commit
1b3bf13890fd849b26). Thanks,
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Peter Xu
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- [PATCH v7 17/17] vfio-user: avocado tests for vfio-user, Jagannathan Raman, 2022/03/25
- [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Jagannathan Raman, 2022/03/25
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2022/03/29
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Jag Raman, 2022/03/29
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2022/03/29
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Jag Raman, 2022/03/29
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2022/03/30
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Peter Xu, 2022/03/30
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2022/03/30
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device,
Peter Xu <=
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2022/03/31
- Re: [PATCH v7 12/17] vfio-user: IOMMU support for remote device, Peter Xu, 2022/03/31
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[PATCH v7 14/17] vfio-user: handle PCI BAR accesses, Jagannathan Raman, 2022/03/25
[PATCH v7 15/17] vfio-user: handle device interrupts, Jagannathan Raman, 2022/03/25