[PATCH v2 0/8] vdpa_sim: add support for user VA

Stefano Garzarella
2023-03-02T11:35:37Z

v2:
- rebased on Linus' tree, commit ae3419fbac84 ("vc_screen: don't clobber
return value in vcs_read")
- removed `struct task_struct *owner` param (unused for now, maybe
useful to support cgroups) [Jason]
- add unbind_mm callback [Jason]
- call the new unbind_mm callback during the release [Jason]
- avoid to call bind_mm callback after the reset, since the device
is not detaching it now during the reset
- added new patch replace kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page() since
checkpatch.pl complained about deprecation of kmap_atomic() touched
by a patch in this series
- fix cast warnings when build with W=1 C=1
- added new patch to replace the spinlock with a mutex [Jason]
- `use_va` set to true by default [Eugenio]
- supported the new unbind_mm callback [Jason]
- removed the unbind_mm call in vdpasim_do_reset() [Jason]
- avoided to release the lock while call kthread_flush_work() since
we are now using a mutex to protect the device state

RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221214163025.103075-1-sgarzare@redhat.com/

This series adds support for the use of user virtual addresses in the
vDPA simulator devices.

The main reason for this change is to lift the pinning of all guest memory.
Especially with virtio devices implemented in software.

The next step would be to generalize the code in vdpa-sim to allow the
implementation of in-kernel software devices. Similar to vhost, but using vDPA
so we can reuse the same software stack (e.g. in QEMU) for both HW and SW
devices.

For example, we have never merged vhost-blk, and lately there has been interest.
So it would be nice to do it directly with vDPA to reuse the same code in the
VMM for both HW and SW vDPA block devices.

The main problem (addressed by this series) was due to the pinning of all
guest memory, which thus prevented the overcommit of guest memory.

Thanks,
Stefano

Stefano Garzarella (8):
vdpa: add bind_mm/unbind_mm callbacks
vhost-vdpa: use bind_mm/unbind_mm device callbacks
vringh: replace kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page()
vringh: support VA with iotlb
vdpa_sim: make devices agnostic for work management
vdpa_sim: use kthread worker
vdpa_sim: replace the spinlock with a mutex to protect the state
vdpa_sim: add support for user VA

drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h | 11 +-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 10 ++
include/linux/vringh.h | 5 +-
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 2 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 160 ++++++++++++++---
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c | 10 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c | 10 +-
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 30 ++++
drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++++++------
9 files changed, 395 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

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