Re: [PATCH v7 3/5] virtio-iommu: Call iommu notifier for attach/detach

[Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>]

Hi Bharat,

Could you Cc me on your next posting?  Unfortunately I don't have much
hardware for testing this at the moment, but I might be able to help a
little on the review.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:40:00PM +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > >>> First issue is: your guest can use 4K page and your host can use 64KB
> > >>> pages. In that case VFIO_DMA_MAP will fail with -EINVAL. We must devise
> > >>> a way to pass the host settings to the VIRTIO-IOMMU device.
> > >>>
> > >>> Even with 64KB pages, it did not work for me. I have obviously not the
> > >>> storm of VFIO_DMA_MAP failures but I have some, most probably due to
> > >>> some wrong notifications somewhere. I will try to investigate on my side.
> > >>>
> > >>> Did you test with VFIO on your side?
> > >>
> > >> I did not tried with different page sizes, only tested with 4K page size.
> > >>
> > >> Yes it works, I tested with two n/w device assigned to VM, both interfaces works
> > >>
> > >> First I will try with 64k page size.
> > >
> > > 64K page size does not work for me as well,
> > >
> > > I think we are not passing correct page_size_mask here
> > > (config.page_size_mask is set to TARGET_PAGE_MASK ( which is
> > > 0xfffffffffffff000))
> > I guess you mean with guest using 4K and host using 64K.
> > >
> > > We need to set this correctly as per host page size, correct?
> > Yes that's correct. We need to put in place a control path to retrieve
> > the page settings on host through VFIO to inform the virtio-iommu device.
> >
> > Besides this issue, did you try with 64kB on host and guest?
> 
> I tried Followings
>   - 4k host and 4k guest  - it works with v7 version
>   - 64k host and 64k guest - it does not work with v7
>     hard-coded config.page_size_mask to 0xffffffffffff0000 and it works

You might get this from the iova_pgsize bitmap returned by
VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO. The virtio config.page_size_mask is global so there
is the usual problem of aggregating consistent properties, but I'm
guessing using the host page size as a granule here is safe enough. 

If it is a problem, we can add a PROBE property for page size mask,
allowing to define per-endpoint page masks. I have kernel patches
somewhere to do just that.

Thanks,
Jean