From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: alex@shazbot.org, clg@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, yi.l.liu@intel.com,
clement.mathieu--drif@eviden.com, eric.auger@redhat.com,
joao.m.martins@oracle.com, avihaih@nvidia.com,
xudong.hao@intel.com, giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com,
rohith.s.r@intel.com, mark.gross@intel.com,
arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com,
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 0/9] vfio: relax the vIOMMU check
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 23:20:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251106042027.856594-1-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com> (raw)
Hi,
This series relax the vIOMMU check and allows live migration with vIOMMU
without VFs using device dirty tracking. It's rewritten based on first 4
patches of [1] from Joao.
Currently what block us is the lack of dirty bitmap query with iommufd
before unmap. By adding that query and handle some corner case we can
relax the check.
Based on vfio-next branch:
patch1-2: add dirty bitmap query with iommufd
patch3: a ranaming cleanup
patch4-5: unmap_bitmap optimization
patch6-7: fixes to avoid losing dirty pages
patch8: add a blocker if VM memory is really quite large for unmap_bitmap
patch9: relax vIOMMU check
We used [2] to test, it contains dom_switch series + this series +
nesting series. I included nesting series just because I'd like to confirm
the two patches optimizing out dirty tracking for readonly pages work.
We tested VM live migration (running QAT workload in VM) with QAT device
passthrough, below matrix configs with guest config 'iommu=pt' and 'iommu=nopt':
1.Scalable mode vIOMMU + IOMMUFD cdev mode
2.Scalable mode vIOMMU + legacy VFIO mode
3.legacy mode vIOMMU + IOMMUFD cdev mode
4.legacy mode vIOMMU + legacy VFIO mode
The QAT workload is a user level app that utilizes VFIO to control QAT device.
Thanks
Zhenzhong
[1] https://github.com/jpemartins/qemu/commits/vfio-migration-viommu/
[2] https://github.com/yiliu1765/qemu/tree/liuyi/zhenzhong/iommufd_nesting.v8.DS_LM.wip
Changelog:
v5:
- drop the patch checking iommu_dirty_tracking (Avihai, Joao)
- pass iotlb info to unmap_bitmap when switch out of system AS
v4:
- bypass memory size check for device dirty tracking as it's unrelated (Avihai)
- split vfio_device_dirty_pages_disabled() helper out as a separate patch
- add a patch to fix minor error on checking vbasedev->iommu_dirty_tracking
v3:
- return bitmap query failure to fail migration (Avihai)
- refine patch7, set IOMMUFD backend 'dirty_pgsizes' and 'max_dirty_bitmap_size' (Cedric)
- refine patch7, calculate memory limit instead of hardcode 8TB (Liuyi)
- refine commit log (Cedric, Liuyi)
v2:
- add backend_flag parameter to pass DIRTY_BITMAP_NO_CLEAR (Joao, Cedric)
- add a cleanup patch to rename vfio_dma_unmap_bitmap (Cedric)
- add blocker if unmap_bitmap limit check fail (Liuyi)
Joao Martins (1):
vfio: Add a backend_flag parameter to
vfio_contianer_query_dirty_bitmap()
Zhenzhong Duan (8):
vfio/iommufd: Add framework code to support getting dirty bitmap
before unmap
vfio/iommufd: Query dirty bitmap before DMA unmap
vfio/container-legacy: rename vfio_dma_unmap_bitmap() to
vfio_legacy_dma_unmap_get_dirty_bitmap()
vfio/iommufd: Add IOMMU_HWPT_GET_DIRTY_BITMAP_NO_CLEAR flag support
intel_iommu: Fix unmap_bitmap failure with legacy VFIO backend
vfio/listener: Construct iotlb entry when unmap memory address space
vfio/migration: Add migration blocker if VM memory is too large to
cause unmap_bitmap failure
vfio/migration: Allow live migration with vIOMMU without VFs using
device dirty tracking
include/hw/vfio/vfio-container.h | 8 +++--
include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h | 10 ++++++
include/system/iommufd.h | 2 +-
backends/iommufd.c | 5 +--
hw/i386/intel_iommu.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
hw/vfio-user/container.c | 5 +--
hw/vfio/container-legacy.c | 15 +++++----
hw/vfio/container.c | 20 ++++++------
hw/vfio/device.c | 6 ++++
hw/vfio/iommufd.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
hw/vfio/listener.c | 21 ++++++++++---
hw/vfio/migration.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
backends/trace-events | 2 +-
hw/vfio/trace-events | 2 +-
14 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
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2.47.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-06 4:20 Zhenzhong Duan [this message]
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] vfio/iommufd: Add framework code to support getting dirty bitmap before unmap Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] vfio/iommufd: Query dirty bitmap before DMA unmap Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] vfio/container-legacy: rename vfio_dma_unmap_bitmap() to vfio_legacy_dma_unmap_get_dirty_bitmap() Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] vfio: Add a backend_flag parameter to vfio_contianer_query_dirty_bitmap() Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] vfio/iommufd: Add IOMMU_HWPT_GET_DIRTY_BITMAP_NO_CLEAR flag support Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] intel_iommu: Fix unmap_bitmap failure with legacy VFIO backend Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] vfio/listener: Construct iotlb entry when unmap memory address space Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] vfio/migration: Add migration blocker if VM memory is too large to cause unmap_bitmap failure Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-06 4:20 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] vfio/migration: Allow live migration with vIOMMU without VFs using device dirty tracking Zhenzhong Duan
2025-11-20 9:29 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] vfio: relax the vIOMMU check Duan, Zhenzhong
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