Re: [RFC v3 1/5] KVM: add initial support for KVM_SET_IOREGION

Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-03-22T09:58:49Z

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On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:26:48PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 2021/2/21 8:04 下午, Elena Afanasova wrote:
> > @@ -1308,6 +1332,7 @@ struct kvm_vfio_spapr_tce {
> > struct kvm_userspace_memory_region)
> > #define KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR _IO(KVMIO, 0x47)
> > #define KVM_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR _IOW(KVMIO, 0x48, __u64)
> > +#define KVM_SET_IOREGION _IOW(KVMIO, 0x49, struct kvm_ioregion)
>
>
> I wonder how could we extend ioregion fd in the future? Do we need something
> like handshake or version here?

The struct kvm_ioregion->flags field can be used to enable optional
features. KVM capabilities can be used to test the presence of optional
features. This might be enough.

A different approach to extensibility is a sizeof(struct kvm_ioregion)
field for arbitrary extensions to the struct.

> > +static int
> > +kvm_set_ioregion(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_ioregion *args)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + enum kvm_bus bus_idx = get_bus_from_flags(args->flags);
> > +
> > + /* check for range overflow */
> > + if (args->guest_paddr + args->memory_size < args->guest_paddr)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + /* If size is ignored only posted writes are allowed */
> > + if (!args->memory_size && !(args->flags & KVM_IOREGION_POSTED_WRITES))
>
>
> We don't have flags like KVM_IOREGION_POSTED_WRITES for ioeventfd. Is this a
> must?

There is no way to trigger a FAST_MMIO read. Guest accesses, including
memory loads, appear as writes.

Stefan

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