Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfio/iommu_type1: Fixes vfio_dma_populate_bitmap to avoid dirty lose

[Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>]

On 1/13/2021 2:50 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:28:57 +0800
> Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> Defer checking whether vfio_dma is of fully-dirty in update_user_bitmap
>> is easy to lose dirty log. For example, after promoting pinned_scope of
>> vfio_iommu, vfio_dma is not considered as fully-dirty, then we may lose
>> dirty log that occurs before vfio_iommu is promoted.
>>
>> The key point is that pinned-dirty is not a real dirty tracking way, it
>> can't continuously track dirty pages, but just restrict dirty scope. It
>> is essentially the same as fully-dirty. Fully-dirty is of full-scope and
>> pinned-dirty is of pinned-scope.
>>
>> So we must mark pinned-dirty or fully-dirty after we start dirty tracking
>> or clear dirty bitmap, to ensure that dirty log is marked right away.
> 
> I was initially convinced by these first three patches, but upon
> further review, I think the premise is wrong.  AIUI, the concern across
> these patches is that our dirty bitmap is only populated with pages
> dirtied by pinning and we only take into account the pinned page dirty
> scope at the time the bitmap is retrieved by the user.  You suppose
> this presents a gap where if a vendor driver has not yet identified
> with a page pinning scope that the entire bitmap should be considered
> dirty regardless of whether that driver later pins pages prior to the
> user retrieving the dirty bitmap.
> 
> I don't think this is how we intended the cooperation between the iommu
> driver and vendor driver to work.  By pinning pages a vendor driver is
> not declaring that only their future dirty page scope is limited to
> pinned pages, instead they're declaring themselves as a participant in
> dirty page tracking and take responsibility for pinning any necessary
> pages.  For example we might extend VFIO_IOMMU_DIRTY_PAGES_FLAG_START
> to trigger a blocking notification to groups to not only begin dirty
> tracking, but also to synchronously register their current device DMA
> footprint.  This patch would require a vendor driver to possibly perform
> a gratuitous page pinning in order to set the scope prior to dirty
> logging being enabled, or else the initial bitmap will be fully dirty.
> 
> Therefore, I don't see that this series is necessary or correct.  Kirti,
> does this match your thinking?
> 

That's correct Alex and I agree with you.

> Thinking about these semantics, it seems there might still be an issue
> if a group with non-pinned-page dirty scope is detached with dirty
> logging enabled.  

Hot-unplug a device while migration process has started - is this 
scenario supported?

Thanks,
Kirti

> It seems this should in fact fully populate the dirty
> bitmaps at the time it's removed since we don't know the extent of its
> previous DMA, nor will the group be present to trigger the full bitmap
> when the user retrieves the dirty bitmap.  Creating fully populated
> bitmaps at the time tracking is enabled negates our ability to take
> advantage of later enlightenment though.  Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
>> Fixes: d6a4c185660c ("vfio iommu: Implementation of ioctl for dirty pages tracking")
>> Signed-off-by: Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> index bceda5e8baaa..b0a26e8e0adf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static void vfio_dma_bitmap_free(struct vfio_dma *dma)
>>   	dma->bitmap = NULL;
>>   }
>>   
>> -static void vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(struct vfio_dma *dma, size_t pgsize)
>> +static void vfio_dma_populate_bitmap_pinned(struct vfio_dma *dma, size_t pgsize)
>>   {
>>   	struct rb_node *p;
>>   	unsigned long pgshift = __ffs(pgsize);
>> @@ -236,6 +236,25 @@ static void vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(struct vfio_dma *dma, size_t pgsize)
>>   	}
>>   }
>>   
>> +static void vfio_dma_populate_bitmap_full(struct vfio_dma *dma, size_t pgsize)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned long pgshift = __ffs(pgsize);
>> +	unsigned long nbits = dma->size >> pgshift;
>> +
>> +	bitmap_set(dma->bitmap, 0, nbits);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>> +				     struct vfio_dma *dma)
>> +{
>> +	size_t pgsize = (size_t)1 << __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap);
>> +
>> +	if (iommu->pinned_page_dirty_scope)
>> +		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap_pinned(dma, pgsize);
>> +	else if (dma->iommu_mapped)
>> +		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap_full(dma, pgsize);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int vfio_dma_bitmap_alloc_all(struct vfio_iommu *iommu)
>>   {
>>   	struct rb_node *n;
>> @@ -257,7 +276,7 @@ static int vfio_dma_bitmap_alloc_all(struct vfio_iommu *iommu)
>>   			}
>>   			return ret;
>>   		}
>> -		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(dma, pgsize);
>> +		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(iommu, dma);
>>   	}
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>> @@ -987,13 +1006,6 @@ static int update_user_bitmap(u64 __user *bitmap, struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   	unsigned long shift = bit_offset % BITS_PER_LONG;
>>   	unsigned long leftover;
>>   
>> -	/*
>> -	 * mark all pages dirty if any IOMMU capable device is not able
>> -	 * to report dirty pages and all pages are pinned and mapped.
>> -	 */
>> -	if (!iommu->pinned_page_dirty_scope && dma->iommu_mapped)
>> -		bitmap_set(dma->bitmap, 0, nbits);
>> -
>>   	if (shift) {
>>   		bitmap_shift_left(dma->bitmap, dma->bitmap, shift,
>>   				  nbits + shift);
>> @@ -1019,7 +1031,6 @@ static int vfio_iova_dirty_bitmap(u64 __user *bitmap, struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   	struct vfio_dma *dma;
>>   	struct rb_node *n;
>>   	unsigned long pgshift = __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap);
>> -	size_t pgsize = (size_t)1 << pgshift;
>>   	int ret;
>>   
>>   	/*
>> @@ -1055,7 +1066,7 @@ static int vfio_iova_dirty_bitmap(u64 __user *bitmap, struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   		 * pages which are marked dirty by vfio_dma_rw()
>>   		 */
>>   		bitmap_clear(dma->bitmap, 0, dma->size >> pgshift);
>> -		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(dma, pgsize);
>> +		vfio_dma_populate_bitmap(iommu, dma);
>>   	}
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
> 
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