[PATCH v1 01/14] iommu: Add iommu_get_unmanaged_domain helper

Eric Auger eric.auger at redhat.com
Wed Mar 22 09:07:39 PDT 2023


Hi Jason,

On 3/10/23 18:03, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:30:03PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgg at nvidia.com]
>>> Sent: 10 March 2023 16:21
>>> To: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com>
>>> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>; Nicolin Chen
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>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/14] iommu: Add iommu_get_unmanaged_domain
>>> helper
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:07:38PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
>>> wrote:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220420164836.1181-5-shameer
>>>>>> ali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com/
>>>>> So "boot configration" is more like "don't change the RIDs"? Ie don't
>>> enable
>>>>> SRIOV?
>>>> Yes. Don't think it will work with SR-IOV if you can't guarantee the RMR
>>> specified
>>>> SID.
>>> So I think we are probably good them because vSR-IOV is already not
>>> supported by qemu, so it impossible for a VM to change the PCI
>>> configuration in a way that would alter the RID to SID mapping?
>>>
>> Provided we fix the issue mentioned by Eric. This was discussed here previously,
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/bb3688c7-8f42-039e-e22f-6529078da97d@redhat.com/
> Ah, I see so that we don't renumber the buses during PCI discovery..
>
> It seems like Eric's issue is overly broad if we just want to block
> RID reassignment that doesn't impact MMIO layout.
IORT spec says

"
If reserved memory regions are present, the OS must preserve PCIe
configuration performed by the boot
firmware. This preservation is required to ensure functional continuity
of the endpoints that are using the reserved
memory regions. Therefore, RMR nodes must be supported by the inclusion
of the PCI Firmware defined _DSM
for ignoring PCI boot configuration, Function 5, in the ACPI device
object of the PCIe host bridge in ACPI
namespace. The _DSM method should return a value of 0 to indicate that
the OS must honour the PCI
configuration that the firmware has done at boot time. See [PCIFW] for
more details on this _DSM method.
"

Enforcing preservation was attempted in the past in QEMU and then
reverted due to the aforemented bug.

qemu commit: 40c3472a29  Revert "acpi/gpex: Inform os to keep firmware
resource map"

So if we want to rely on RMRs and re-introduce that change I don't see
how we can avoid fixing the kernel issue.
>
> But, still, why do we care about this?
>
> The vIOMMU should virtualize the vSIDs right? So why does qemu give a
> vSID list to the guest anyhow? Shouldn't the guest use an algorithmic
> calculation from the vRID so that qemu can reverse it to the correct
> vPCI device and thus the correct vfio_device and then dev id in the
> iommu_domain?
I don't understand how this changes the above picture?


Thanks

Eric
>
> Jason
>




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