Re: [PATCH] virtio-iommu: Use qemu_real_host_page_mask as default page_size_mask

[Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 12/21/23 14:45, Eric Auger wrote:
> We used to set default page_size_mask to qemu_target_page_mask() but
> with VFIO assignment it makes more sense to use the actual host page mask
> instead.
>
> So from now on qemu_real_host_page_mask() will be used as a default.
> To be able to migrate older code, we increase the vmstat version_id
> to 3 and if an older incoming v2 stream is detected we set the previous
> default value.
>
> The new default is well adapted to configs where host and guest have
> the same page size. This allows to fix hotplugging VFIO devices on a
> 64kB guest and a 64kB host. This test case has been failing before
> and even crashing qemu with hw_error("vfio: DMA mapping failed,
> unable to continue") in VFIO common). Indeed the hot-attached VFIO
> device would call memory_region_iommu_set_page_size_mask with 64kB
> mask whereas after the granule was frozen to 4kB on machine init done.
> Now this works. However the new default will prevent 4kB guest on
> 64kB host because the granule will be set to 64kB which would be
> larger than the guest page size. In that situation, the virtio-iommu
> driver fails the viommu_domain_finalise() with
> "granule 0x10000 larger than system page zie 0x1000".
>
> The current limitation of global granule in the virtio-iommu
> should be removed and turned into per domain granule. But
> until we get this upgraded, this new default is probably
> better because I don't think anyone is currently interested in
> running a 4kB page size guest with virtio-iommu on a 64kB host.
> However supporting 64kB guest on 64kB host with virtio-iommu and
> VFIO looks a more important feature.

Gentle ping

Thanks

Eric
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.c
> index 9d463efc52..b77e3644ea 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.c
> @@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ static void virtio_iommu_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>       * in vfio realize
>       */
>      s->config.bypass = s->boot_bypass;
> -    s->config.page_size_mask = qemu_target_page_mask();
> +    s->config.page_size_mask = qemu_real_host_page_mask();
>      s->config.input_range.end = UINT64_MAX;
>      s->config.domain_range.end = UINT32_MAX;
>      s->config.probe_size = VIOMMU_PROBE_SIZE;
> @@ -1491,13 +1491,16 @@ static int iommu_post_load(void *opaque, int version_id)
>       * still correct.
>       */
>      virtio_iommu_switch_address_space_all(s);
> +    if (version_id <= 2) {
> +        s->config.page_size_mask = qemu_target_page_mask();
> +    }
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const VMStateDescription vmstate_virtio_iommu_device = {
>      .name = "virtio-iommu-device",
>      .minimum_version_id = 2,
> -    .version_id = 2,
> +    .version_id = 3,
>      .post_load = iommu_post_load,
>      .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
>          VMSTATE_GTREE_DIRECT_KEY_V(domains, VirtIOIOMMU, 2,