Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] iommufd: Add nesting infrastructure

Nicolin Chen
2023-06-26T17:29:17Z

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 06:42:58AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> > > Yi/Nicolin, please update this series to not automatically add reserved
> > > regions to S2 in the nesting configuration.
> >
> > I'm a bit late for the conversation here. Yet, how about the
> > IOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI on ARM in the nesting configuration? We'd
> > still call iommufd_group_setup_msi() on the S2 HWPT, despite
> > attaching the device to a nested S1 HWPT right?
>
> Yes, based on current design of ARM nesting.
>
> But please special case it instead of pretending that all reserved regions
> are added to IOAS which is wrong in concept based on the discussion.

Ack. Yi made a version of change dropping it completely along
with the iommufd_group_setup_msi() call for a nested S1 HWPT.
So I thought there was a misalignment. I made another version
preserving the pathway for MSI on ARM, and perhaps we should
go with this one:
https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commit/c63829a12d35f2d7a390f42821a079f8a294cff8

> > > It also implies that the user cannot rely on IOAS_IOVA_RANGES to
> > > learn reserved regions for arranging addresses in S1.
> > >
> > > Then we also need a new ioctl to report reserved regions per dev_id.
> >
> > So, in a nesting configuration, QEMU would poll a device's S2
> > MSI region (i.e. IOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI) to prevent conflict?
> >
>
> Qemu needs to know all the reserved regions of the device and skip
> them when arranging S1 layout.

OK.

> I'm not sure whether the MSI region needs a special MSI type or
> just a general RESV_DIRECT type for 1:1 mapping, though.

I don't quite get this part. Isn't MSI having IOMMU_RESV_MSI
and IOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI? Or does it juset mean we should report
the iommu_resv_type along with reserved regions in new ioctl?

Thanks
Nic