Re: [RFC PATCH 4/9] vfio-pci: register default dynamic-trap-bar-info region

Yan Zhao
2019-12-06T06:12:21Z

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 07:55:30AM +0800, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 22:26:50 -0500
> Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Dynamic trap bar info region is a channel for QEMU and vendor driver to
> > communicate dynamic trap info. It is of type
> > VFIO_REGION_TYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO and subtype
> > VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO.
> >
> > This region has two fields: dt_fd and trap.
> > When QEMU detects a device regions of this type, it will create an
> > eventfd and write its eventfd id to dt_fd field.
> > When vendor drivre signals this eventfd, QEMU reads trap field of this
> > info region.
> > - If trap is true, QEMU would search the device's PCI BAR
> > regions and disable all the sparse mmaped subregions (if the sparse
> > mmaped subregion is disablable).
> > - If trap is false, QEMU would re-enable those subregions.
> >
> > A typical usage is
> > 1. vendor driver first cuts its bar 0 into several sections, all in a
> > sparse mmap array. So initally, all its bar 0 are passthroughed.
> > 2. vendor driver specifys part of bar 0 sections to be disablable.
> > 3. on migration starts, vendor driver signals dt_fd and set trap to true
> > to notify QEMU disabling the bar 0 sections of disablable flags on.
> > 4. QEMU disables those bar 0 section and hence let vendor driver be able
> > to trap access of bar 0 registers and make dirty page tracking possible.
> > 5. on migration failure, vendor driver signals dt_fd to QEMU again.
> > QEMU reads trap field of this info region which is false and QEMU
> > re-passthrough the whole bar 0 region.
> >
> > Vendor driver specifies whether it supports dynamic-trap-bar-info region
> > through cap VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR in
> > vfio_pci_mediate_ops->open().
> >
> > If vfio-pci detects this cap, it will create a default
> > dynamic_trap_bar_info region on behalf of vendor driver with region len=0
> > and region->ops=null.
> > Vvendor driver should override this region's len, flags, rw, mmap in its
> > vfio_pci_mediate_ops.
>
> TBH, I don't like this interface at all. Userspace doesn't pass data
> to the kernel via INFO ioctls. We have a SET_IRQS ioctl for
> configuring user signaling with eventfds. I think we only need to
> define an IRQ type that tells the user to re-evaluate the sparse mmap
> information for a region. The user would enumerate the device IRQs via
> GET_IRQ_INFO, find one of this type where the IRQ info would also
> indicate which region(s) should be re-evaluated on signaling. The user
> would enable that signaling via SET_IRQS and simply re-evaluate the
ok. I'll try to switch to this way. Thanks for this suggestion.

> sparse mmap capability for the associated regions when signaled.

Do you like the "disablable" flag of sparse mmap ?
I think it's a lightweight way for user to switch mmap state of a whole region,
otherwise going through a complete flow of GET_REGION_INFO and re-setup
region might be too heavy.

Thanks
Yan

> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>

> >
> > Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/vfio.h | 3 ++-
> > include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 11 +++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > index 059660328be2..62b811ca43e4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > @@ -127,6 +127,19 @@ void init_migration_region(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev)
> > NULL);
> > }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * register a region to hold info for dynamically trap bar regions
> > + */
> > +void init_dynamic_trap_bar_info_region(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev)
> > +{
> > + vfio_pci_register_dev_region(vdev,
> > + VFIO_REGION_TYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO,
> > + VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO,
> > + NULL, 0,
> > + VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_READ | VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE,
> > + NULL);
> > +}
> > +
> > static void vfio_pci_probe_mmaps(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev)
> > {
> > struct resource *res;
> > @@ -538,6 +551,9 @@ static int vfio_pci_open(void *device_data)
> > if (caps & VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_MIGRATION)
> > init_migration_region(vdev);
> >
> > + if (caps & VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR)
> > + init_dynamic_trap_bar_info_region(vdev);
> > +
> > pr_info("vfio pci found mediate_ops %s, caps=%llx, handle=%x for %x:%x\n",
> > vdev->mediate_ops->name, caps,
> > handle, vdev->pdev->vendor,
> > diff --git a/include/linux/vfio.h b/include/linux/vfio.h
> > index cddea8e9dcb2..cf8ecf687bee 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/vfio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/vfio.h
> > @@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ extern void vfio_virqfd_disable(struct virqfd **pvirqfd);
> >
> > struct vfio_pci_mediate_ops {
> > char *name;
> > -#define VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_MIGRATION (0x01)
> > +#define VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_MIGRATION (0x01)
> > +#define VFIO_PCI_DEVICE_CAP_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR (0x02)
> > int (*open)(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 *caps, u32 *handle);
> > void (*release)(int handle);
> > void (*get_region_info)(int handle,
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> > index caf8845a67a6..74a2d0b57741 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> > @@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ struct vfio_region_info {
> > struct vfio_region_sparse_mmap_area {
> > __u64 offset; /* Offset of mmap'able area within region */
> > __u64 size; /* Size of mmap'able area */
> > + __u32 disablable; /* whether this mmap'able are able to
> > + * be dynamically disabled
> > + */
> > };
> >
> > struct vfio_region_info_cap_sparse_mmap {
> > @@ -454,6 +457,14 @@ struct vfio_device_migration_info {
> > #define VFIO_DEVICE_DIRTY_PFNS_ALL (~0ULL)
> > } __attribute__((packed));
> >
> > +/* Region type and sub-type to hold info to dynamically trap bars */
> > +#define VFIO_REGION_TYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO (4)
> > +#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DYNAMIC_TRAP_BAR_INFO (1)
> > +
> > +struct vfio_device_dt_bar_info_region {
> > + __u32 dt_fd; /* fd of eventfd to notify qemu trap/untrap bars*/
> > + __u32 trap; /* trap/untrap bar regions */
> > +};
> >
> > /* sub-types for VFIO_REGION_TYPE_PCI_* */
> >
>