[RFC PATCH 10/11] vfio/iommu_type1: Optimize dirty bitmap population based on iommu HWDBM

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Tue Feb 9 06:16:08 EST 2021


On 2021-02-07 09:56, Yi Sun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21-01-28 23:17:41, Keqian Zhu wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> +static void vfio_dma_dirty_log_start(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>> +				     struct vfio_dma *dma)
>> +{
>> +	struct vfio_domain *d;
>> +
>> +	list_for_each_entry(d, &iommu->domain_list, next) {
>> +		/* Go through all domain anyway even if we fail */
>> +		iommu_split_block(d->domain, dma->iova, dma->size);
>> +	}
>> +}
> 
> This should be a switch to prepare for dirty log start. Per Intel
> Vtd spec, there is SLADE defined in Scalable-Mode PASID Table Entry.
> It enables Accessed/Dirty Flags in second-level paging entries.
> So, a generic iommu interface here is better. For Intel iommu, it
> enables SLADE. For ARM, it splits block.

 From a quick look, VT-D's SLADE and SMMU's HTTU appear to be the exact 
same thing. This step isn't about enabling or disabling that feature 
itself (the proposal for SMMU is to simply leave HTTU enabled all the 
time), it's about controlling the granularity at which the dirty status 
can be detected/reported at all, since that's tied to the pagetable 
structure.

However, if an IOMMU were to come along with some other way of reporting 
dirty status that didn't depend on the granularity of individual 
mappings, then indeed it wouldn't need this operation.

Robin.

>> +
>> +static void vfio_dma_dirty_log_stop(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>> +				    struct vfio_dma *dma)
>> +{
>> +	struct vfio_domain *d;
>> +
>> +	list_for_each_entry(d, &iommu->domain_list, next) {
>> +		/* Go through all domain anyway even if we fail */
>> +		iommu_merge_page(d->domain, dma->iova, dma->size,
>> +				 d->prot | dma->prot);
>> +	}
>> +}
> 
> Same as above comment, a generic interface is required here.
> 
>> +
>> +static void vfio_iommu_dirty_log_switch(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, bool start)
>> +{
>> +	struct rb_node *n;
>> +
>> +	/* Split and merge even if all iommu don't support HWDBM now */
>> +	for (n = rb_first(&iommu->dma_list); n; n = rb_next(n)) {
>> +		struct vfio_dma *dma = rb_entry(n, struct vfio_dma, node);
>> +
>> +		if (!dma->iommu_mapped)
>> +			continue;
>> +
>> +		/* Go through all dma range anyway even if we fail */
>> +		if (start)
>> +			vfio_dma_dirty_log_start(iommu, dma);
>> +		else
>> +			vfio_dma_dirty_log_stop(iommu, dma);
>> +	}
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int vfio_iommu_type1_dirty_pages(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   					unsigned long arg)
>>   {
>> @@ -2812,8 +2900,10 @@ static int vfio_iommu_type1_dirty_pages(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   		pgsize = 1 << __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap);
>>   		if (!iommu->dirty_page_tracking) {
>>   			ret = vfio_dma_bitmap_alloc_all(iommu, pgsize);
>> -			if (!ret)
>> +			if (!ret) {
>>   				iommu->dirty_page_tracking = true;
>> +				vfio_iommu_dirty_log_switch(iommu, true);
>> +			}
>>   		}
>>   		mutex_unlock(&iommu->lock);
>>   		return ret;
>> @@ -2822,6 +2912,7 @@ static int vfio_iommu_type1_dirty_pages(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>>   		if (iommu->dirty_page_tracking) {
>>   			iommu->dirty_page_tracking = false;
>>   			vfio_dma_bitmap_free_all(iommu);
>> +			vfio_iommu_dirty_log_switch(iommu, false);
>>   		}
>>   		mutex_unlock(&iommu->lock);
>>   		return 0;
>> -- 
>> 2.19.1
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