[PATCH v2 06/19] iommufd/viommu: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET/UNSET_VDEV_ID ioctl

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at amd.com
Sat May 10 05:51:58 PDT 2025



On 10/5/25 08:07, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 12:57:18PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/5/25 22:24, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 09:18:29PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>
>>>>> We should not destroy the vdevice for something like that. In a CC
>>>>> case that would unplug it from the VM which is not right.
>>>>
>>>> vdevice is not directly seen by the guest, is not it? The guest will
>>>> see, for example, an "AMD IOMMU" and assume there is device table
>>>> for all 64K devices, and so on, it is QEMU which will be
>>>> reallocating vdevice in the host's IOMMUFD. Did I miss something
>>>> here? Thanks,
>>>
>>> I imagined the vdevice would trigger the CC call to create the vPCI
>>> function in the guest attached to the secure iommu.
>>
>> What is this vPCI going to look like inside the guest? There still
>> be AMD IOMMU PCI function and passed through to-be-trusted PCI
>> function.
> 
> However the VMM tells it to look using the arguments to the create
> vdevice ioctl?
> 
> I don't understand the question?

"We should not destroy the vdevice" confused me. It is not a device which a VM would see (or is it?), it is a QEMU/IOMMUFD object which we can create/destroy at any time (well, may be not, but the VM does not have a say in this). And then this vPCI thing - what is it, synonym to "vdevice" or a different thing?


-- 
Alexey




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