[RFC 20/20] Doc: Add documentation for /dev/iommu

Liu Yi L
2021-09-19T06:43:50Z

Document the /dev/iommu framework for user.

Open:
Do we want to document /dev/iommu in Documentation/userspace-api/iommu.rst?
Existing iommu.rst is for the vSVA interfaces, honestly, may need to rewrite
this doc entirely.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst | 183 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 184 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index 0b5eefed027e..54df5a278023 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ place where this information is gathered.
ebpf/index
ioctl/index
iommu
+ iommufd
media/index
sysfs-platform_profile

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..abffbb47dc02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. iommu:
+
+===================
+IOMMU Userspace API
+===================
+
+Direct device access from userspace has been a crtical feature in
+high performance computing and virtualization usages. Linux now
+includes multiple device-passthrough frameworks (e.g. VFIO and vDPA)
+to manage secure device access from the userspace. One critical
+task of those frameworks is to put the assigned device in a secure,
+IOMMU-protected context so the device is prevented from doing harm
+to the rest of the system.
+
+Currently those frameworks implement their own logic for managing
+I/O page tables to isolate user-initiated DMAs. This doesn't scale
+to support many new IOMMU features, such as PASID-granular DMA
+remapping, nested translation, I/O page fault, IOMMU dirty bit, etc.
+
+The /dev/iommu framework provides an unified interface for managing
+I/O page tables for passthrough devices. Existing passthrough
+frameworks are expected to use this interface instead of continuing
+their ad-hoc implementations.
+
+IOMMUFDs, IOASIDs, Devices and Groups
+-------------------------------------
+
+The core concepts in /dev/iommu are IOMMUFDs and IOASIDs. IOMMUFD (by
+opening /dev/iommu) is the container holding multiple I/O address
+spaces for a user, while IOASID is the fd-local software handle
+representing an I/O address space and associated with a single I/O
+page table. User manages those address spaces through fd operations,
+e.g. by using vfio type1v2 mapping semantics to manage respective
+I/O page tables.
+
+IOASID is comparable to the conatiner concept in VFIO. The latter
+is also associated to a single I/O address space. A main difference
+between them is that multiple IOASIDs in the same IOMMUFD can be
+nested together (not supported yet) to allow centralized accounting
+of locked pages, while multiple containers are disconnected thus
+duplicated accounting is incurred. Typically one IOMMUFD is
+sufficient for all intended IOMMU usages for a user.
+
+An I/O address space takes effect in the IOMMU only after it is
+attached by a device. One I/O address space can be attached by
+multiple devices. One device can be only attached to a single I/O
+address space at this point (on par with current vfio behavior).
+
+Device must be bound to an iommufd before the attach operation can
+be conducted. The binding operation builds the connection between
+the devicefd (opened via device-passthrough framework) and IOMMUFD.
+IOMMU-protected security context is esbliashed when the binding
+operation is completed. The passthrough framework must block user
+access to the assigned device until bind() returns success.
+
+The entire /dev/iommu framework adopts a device-centric model w/o
+carrying any container/group legacy as current vfio does. However
+the group is the minimum granularity that must be used to ensure
+secure user access (refer to vfio.rst). This framework relies on
+the IOMMU core layer to map device-centric model into group-granular
+isolation.
+
+Managing I/O Address Spaces
+---------------------------
+
+When creating an I/O address space (by allocating IOASID), the user
+must specify the type of underlying I/O page table. Currently only
+one type (kernel-managed) is supported. In the future other types
+will be introduced, e.g. to support user-managed I/O page table or
+a shared I/O page table which is managed by another kernel sub-
+system (mm, ept, etc.). Kernel-managed I/O page table is currently
+managed via vfio type1v2 equivalent mapping semantics.
+
+The user also needs to specify the format of the I/O page table
+when allocating an IOASID. The format must be compatible to the
+attached devices (or more specifically to the IOMMU which serves
+the DMA from the attached devices). User can query the device IOMMU
+format via IOMMUFD once a device is successfully bound. Attaching a
+device to an IOASID with incompatible format is simply rejected.
+
+Currently no-snoop DMA is not supported yet. This implies that
+IOASID must be created in an enforce-snoop format and only devices
+which can be forced to snoop cache by IOMMU are allowed to be
+attached to IOASID. The user should check uAPI extension and get
+device info via IOMMUFD to handle such restriction.
+
+Usage Example
+-------------
+
+Assume user wants to access PCI device 0000:06:0d.0, which is
+exposed under the new /dev/vfio/devices directory by VFIO:
+
+ /* Open device-centric interface and /dev/iommu interface */
+ device_fd = open("/dev/vfio/devices/0000:06:0d.0", O_RDWR);
+ iommu_fd = open("/dev/iommu", O_RDWR);
+
+ /* Bind device to IOMMUFD */
+ bind_data = { .iommu_fd = iommu_fd, .dev_cookie = cookie };
+ ioctl(device_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD, &bind_data);
+
+ /* Query per-device IOMMU capability/format */
+ info = { .dev_cookie = cookie, };
+ ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_DEVICE_GET_INFO, &info);
+
+ if (!(info.flags & IOMMU_DEVICE_INFO_ENFORCE_SNOOP)) {
+ if (!ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_CHECK_EXTENSION,
+ EXT_DMA_NO_SNOOP))
+ /* No support of no-snoop DMA */
+ }
+
+ if (!ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_CHECK_EXTENSION, EXT_MAP_TYPE1V2))
+ /* No support of vfio type1v2 mapping semantics */
+
+ /* Decides IOASID alloc fields based on info */
+ alloc_data = { .type = IOMMU_IOASID_TYPE_KERNEL,
+ .flags = IOMMU_IOASID_ENFORCE_SNOOP,
+ .addr_width = info.addr_width, };
+
+ /* Allocate IOASID */
+ gpa_ioasid = ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_IOASID_ALLOC, &alloc_data);
+
+ /* Attach device to an IOASID */
+ at_data = { .iommu_fd = iommu_fd; .ioasid = gpa_ioasid};
+ ioctl(device_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_ATTACH_IOASID, &at_data);
+
+ /* Setup GPA mapping [0 - 1GB] */
+ dma_map = {
+ .ioasid = gpa_ioasid,
+ .data {
+ .flags = R/W /* permission */
+ .iova = 0, /* GPA */
+ .vaddr = 0x40000000, /* HVA */
+ .size = 1GB,
+ },
+ };
+ ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_MAP_DMA, &dma_map);
+
+ /* DMA */
+
+ /* Unmap GPA mapping [0 - 1GB] */
+ dma_unmap = {
+ .ioasid = gpa_ioasid,
+ .data {
+ .iova = 0, /* GPA */
+ .size = 1GB,
+ },
+ };
+ ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA, &dma_unmap);
+
+ /* Detach device from an IOASID */
+ dt_data = { .iommu_fd = iommu_fd; .ioasid = gpa_ioasid};
+ ioctl(device_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_DETACH_IOASID, &dt_data);
+
+ /* Free IOASID */
+ ioctl(iommu_fd, IOMMU_IOASID_FREE, gpa_ioasid);
+
+ close(device_fd);
+ close(iommu_fd);
+
+API for device-passthrough frameworks
+-------------------------------------
+
+iommufd binding and IOASID attach/detach are initiated via the device-
+passthrough framework uAPI.
+
+When a binding operation is requested by the user, the passthrough
+framework should call iommufd_bind_device(). When the device fd is
+closed by the user, iommufd_unbind_device() should be called
+automatically::
+
+ struct iommufd_device *
+ iommufd_bind_device(int fd, struct device *dev,
+ u64 dev_cookie);
+ void iommufd_unbind_device(struct iommufd_device *idev);
+
+IOASID attach/detach operations are per iommufd_device which is
+returned by iommufd_bind_device():
+
+ int iommufd_device_attach_ioasid(struct iommufd_device *idev,
+ int ioasid);
+ void iommufd_device_detach_ioasid(struct iommufd_device *idev,
+ int ioasid);
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