Re: [PATCH RFC v1 00/15] iommu/virtio: Nested stage support with Arm

Auger Eric
2021-01-25T08:44:53Z

Hi Vivek,

On 1/21/21 6:34 PM, Vivek Kumar Gautam wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
>
> On 1/19/21 2:33 PM, Auger Eric wrote:
>> Hi Vivek,
>>
>> On 1/15/21 1:13 PM, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>>> This patch-series aims at enabling Nested stage translation in guests
>>> using virtio-iommu as the paravirtualized iommu. The backend is
>>> supported
>>> with Arm SMMU-v3 that provides nested stage-1 and stage-2 translation.
>>>
>>> This series derives its purpose from various efforts happening to add
>>> support for Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) in host and guest. On Arm,
>>> most of the support for SVA has already landed. The support for nested
>>> stage translation and fault reporting to guest has been proposed [1].
>>> The related changes required in VFIO [2] framework have also been put
>>> forward.
>>>
>>> This series proposes changes in virtio-iommu to program PASID tables
>>> and related stage-1 page tables. A simple iommu-pasid-table library
>>> is added for this purpose that interacts with vendor drivers to
>>> allocate and populate PASID tables.
>>> In Arm SMMUv3 we propose to pull the Context Descriptor (CD) management
>>> code out of the arm-smmu-v3 driver and add that as a glue vendor layer
>>> to support allocating CD tables, and populating them with right values.
>>> These CD tables are essentially the PASID tables and contain stage-1
>>> page table configurations too.
>>> A request to setup these CD tables come from virtio-iommu driver using
>>> the iommu-pasid-table library when running on Arm. The virtio-iommu
>>> then pass these PASID tables to the host using the right virtio backend
>>> and support in VMM.
>>>
>>> For testing we have added necessary support in kvmtool. The changes in
>>> kvmtool are based on virtio-iommu development branch by Jean-Philippe
>>> Brucker [3].
>>>
>>> The tested kernel branch contains following in the order bottom to top
>>> on the git hash -
>>> a) v5.11-rc3
>>> b) arm-smmu-v3 [1] and vfio [2] changes from Eric to add nested page
>>>     table support for Arm.
>>> c) Smmu test engine patches from Jean-Philippe's branch [4]
>>> d) This series
>>> e) Domain nesting info patches [5][6][7].
>>> f) Changes to add arm-smmu-v3 specific nesting info (to be sent to
>>>     the list).
>>>
>>> This kernel is tested on Neoverse reference software stack with
>>> Fixed virtual platform. Public version of the software stack and
>>> FVP is available here[8][9].
>>>
>>> A big thanks to Jean-Philippe for his contributions towards this work
>>> and for his valuable guidance.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20201118112151.25412-1-eric.auger@redhat.com/T/
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20201116110030.32335-12-eric.auger@redhat.com/T/
>>>
>>> [3] https://jpbrucker.net/git/kvmtool/log/?h=virtio-iommu/devel
>>> [4] https://jpbrucker.net/git/linux/log/?h=sva/smmute
>>> [5]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/1599734733-6431-2-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@intel.com/
>>>
>>> [6]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/1599734733-6431-3-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@intel.com/
>>>
>>> [7]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/1599734733-6431-4-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@intel.com/
>>>
>>> [8]
>>> https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/arm-platforms-software/arm-ecosystem-fvps
>>>
>>> [9]
>>> https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/arm-reference-platforms.git/about/docs/rdn1edge/user-guide.rst
>>>
>>
>> Could you share a public branch where we could find all the kernel
>> pieces.
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>
> Apologies for the delay. It took a bit of time to sort things out for a
> public branch.
> The branch is available in my github now. Please have a look.
>
> https://github.com/vivek-arm/linux/tree/5.11-rc3-nested-pgtbl-arm-smmuv3-virtio-iommu

no problem. Thank you for the link.

Best Regards

Eric
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards
> Vivek
>
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Eric
>>>
>>> Jean-Philippe Brucker (6):
>>>    iommu/virtio: Add headers for table format probing
>>>    iommu/virtio: Add table format probing
>>>    iommu/virtio: Add headers for binding pasid table in iommu
>>>    iommu/virtio: Add support for INVALIDATE request
>>>    iommu/virtio: Attach Arm PASID tables when available
>>>    iommu/virtio: Add support for Arm LPAE page table format
>>>
>>> Vivek Gautam (9):
>>>    iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Create a Context Descriptor library
>>>    iommu: Add a simple PASID table library
>>>    iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Update drivers to work with iommu-pasid-table
>>>    iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Update CD base address info for user-space
>>>    iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set sync op from consumer driver of cd-lib
>>>    iommu: Add asid_bits to arm smmu-v3 stage1 table info
>>>    iommu/virtio: Update table format probing header
>>>    iommu/virtio: Prepare to add attach pasid table infrastructure
>>>    iommu/virtio: Update fault type and reason info for viommu fault
>>>
>>>   drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/Makefile        |   2 +-
>>>   .../arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-cd-lib.c      | 283 +++++++
>>>   .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c   |  16 +-
>>>   drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c   | 268 +------
>>>   drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h   |   4 +-
>>>   drivers/iommu/iommu-pasid-table.h             | 140 ++++
>>>   drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c                  | 692 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>   include/uapi/linux/iommu.h                    |   2 +-
>>>   include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h             | 158 +++-
>>>   9 files changed, 1303 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-cd-lib.c
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/iommu-pasid-table.h
>>>
>>
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