From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] iommu: introduce device fault report API Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20171010134054.5gjzvznhzddc2cn7@8bytes.org> References: <1507244624-39189-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> <1507244624-39189-11-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1507244624-39189-11-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jacob Pan Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, LKML , David Woodhouse , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rafael Wysocki , Jean-Philippe Brucker , "Liu, Yi L" , Lan Tianyu , "Tian, Kevin" , Raj Ashok , Alex Williamson List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:03:38PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: > Traditionally, device specific faults are detected and handled within > their own device drivers. When IOMMU is enabled, faults such as DMA > related transactions are detected by IOMMU. There is no generic > reporting mechanism to report faults back to the in-kernel device > driver or the guest OS in case of assigned devices. > > Faults detected by IOMMU is based on the transaction's source ID which > can be reported at per device basis, regardless of the device type is a > PCI device or not. > > The fault types include recoverable (e.g. page request) and > unrecoverable faults(e.g. access error). In most cases, faults can be > handled by IOMMU drivers internally. The primary use cases are as > follows: > 1. page request fault originated from an SVM capable device that is > assigned to guest via vIOMMU. In this case, the first level page tables > are owned by the guest. Page request must be propagated to the guest to > let guest OS fault in the pages then send page response. In this > mechanism, the direct receiver of IOMMU fault notification is VFIO, > which can relay notification events to QEMU or other user space > software. > > 2. faults need more subtle handling by device drivers. Other than > simply invoke reset function, there are needs to let device driver > handle the fault with a smaller impact. > > This patchset is intended to create a generic fault report API such > that it can scale as follows: > - all IOMMU types > - PCI and non-PCI devices > - recoverable and unrecoverable faults > - VFIO and other other in kernel users > - DMA & IRQ remapping (TBD) > The original idea was brought up by David Woodhouse and discussions > summarized at https://lwn.net/Articles/608914/. > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan > Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj > --- > drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/linux/iommu.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > index 5a14154..0b058e2 100644 > --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > @@ -554,9 +554,15 @@ int iommu_group_add_device(struct iommu_group *group, struct device *dev) > > device->dev = dev; > > + dev->iommu_fault_param = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iommu_fault_param), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!dev->iommu_fault_param) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > + goto err_free_device; > + } > + This looks like some left-over from a previous version, because allocation of that structure is done in iommu_register_device_fault_handler()