Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 12/20] Memory: Add func to fire pasidt_bind notifier

["Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:14:27PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:37:19AM +0800, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 26/04/2017 12:06, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > > > +void memory_region_notify_iommu_svm_bind(MemoryRegion *mr,
> > > > +                                         void *data)
> > > > +{
> > > > +    IOMMUNotifier *iommu_notifier;
> > > > +    IOMMUNotifierFlag request_flags;
> > > > +
> > > > +    assert(memory_region_is_iommu(mr));
> > > > +
> > > > +    /*TODO: support other bind requests with smaller gran,
> > > > +     * e.g. bind signle pasid entry
> > > > +     */
> > > > +    request_flags = IOMMU_NOTIFIER_SVM_PASIDT_BIND;
> > > > +
> > > > +    QLIST_FOREACH(iommu_notifier, &mr->iommu_notify, node) {
> > > > +        if (iommu_notifier->notifier_flags & request_flags) {
> > > > +            iommu_notifier->notify(iommu_notifier, data);
> > > > +            break;
> > > > +        }
> > > > +    }
> > > 
> > > Peter,
> > > 
> > > should this reuse ->notify, or should it be different function pointer
> > > in IOMMUNotifier?
> > 
> > Hi Paolo,
> > 
> > Thx for your review.
> > 
> > I think it should be “->notify” here. In this patchset, the new notifier
> > is registered with the existing notifier registration API. So the all the
> > notifiers are in the mr->iommu_notify list. And notifiers are labeled
> > by notify flag, so it is able to differentiate the IOMMUNotifier nodes.
> > When the flag meets, trigger it by “->notify”. The diagram below shows
> > my understanding , wish it helps to make me understood.
> > 
> > VFIOContainer
> >        |
> >        giommu_list(VFIOGuestIOMMU)
> >                 \
> >                  VFIOGuestIOMMU1 ->   VFIOGuestIOMMU2 -> VFIOGuestIOMMU3 ...
> >                     |                     |                 |
> > mr->iommu_notify: IOMMUNotifier   ->    IOMMUNotifier  ->  IOMMUNotifier
> >                   (Flag:MAP/UNMAP)     (Flag:SVM bind)  (Flag:tlb invalidate)
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, compared with the MAP/UNMAP notifier, the newly added notifier has
> > no start/end check, and there may be other types of bind notfier flag in
> > future, so I added a separate fire func for SVM bind notifier.
> 
> I agree with Paolo that this interface might not be the suitable place
> for the SVM notifiers (just like what I worried about in previous
> discussions).
> 
> The biggest problem is that, if you see current notifier mechanism,
> it's per-memory-region. However iiuc your messages should be
> per-iommu, or say, per translation unit.

Hi Peter,

yes, you're right. the newly added notifier is per-iommu.

> While, for each iommu, there
> can be more than one memory regions (ppc can be an example). When
> there are more than one MRs binded to the same iommu unit, which
> memory region should you register to? Any one of them, or all?

Honestly, I'm not expert on ppc. According to the current code,
I can only find one MR initialized with memory_region_init_iommu()
in spapr_tce_table_realize(). So to better get your point, let me
check. Do you mean there may be multiple of iommu MRs behind a iommu?

I admit it must be considered if there are multiple iommu MRs. I may
choose to register for one of them since the notifier is per-iommu as
you've pointed. Then vIOMMU emulator need to trigger the notifier with
the correct MR. Not sure if ppc vIOMMU is fine with it.

> So my conclusion is, it just has nothing to do with memory regions...
>
> Instead of a different function pointer in IOMMUNotifer, IMHO we can
> even move a step further, to isolate IOTLB notifications (targeted at
> memory regions and with start/end ranges) out of SVM/other
> notifications, since they are different in general. So we basically
> need two notification mechanism:
> 
> - one for memory regions, currently what I can see is IOTLB
>   notifications
> 
> - one for translation units, currently I see all the rest of
>   notifications needed in virt-svm in this category
> 
> Maybe some RFC patches would be good to show what I mean... I'll see
> whether I can prepare some.

I agree that it would be helpful to split the two kinds of notifiers. I
marked it as a FIXME in patch 0006 of this series. Just saw your RFC patch
for common IOMMUObject. Thx for your work, would try to review it.

Besides the notifier registration, pls also help to review the SVM
virtualization itself. Would be glad to know your comments.

Thanks,
Yi L

> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Peter Xu
>