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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] intel-iommu: introduce Intel IOMMU (VT-d


From: Jan Kiszka
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] intel-iommu: introduce Intel IOMMU (VT-d) emulation to q35 chipset
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:45:33 +0200
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On 2014-08-16 09:54, Knut Omang wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 19:37 +0800, Le Tan wrote:
>> Hi Knut,
>>
>> 2014-08-15 19:15 GMT+08:00 Knut Omang <address@hidden>:
>>> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 06:42 +0200, Knut Omang wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 14:10 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-08-14 13:15, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:04:57PM +0800, Le Tan wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These patches are intended to introduce Intel IOMMU (VT-d) emulation to 
>>>>>>> q35
>>>>>>> chipset. The major job in these patches is to add support for emulating 
>>>>>>> Intel
>>>>>>> IOMMU according to the VT-d specification, including basic responses to 
>>>>>>> CSRs
>>>>>>> accesses, the logics of DMAR (DMA remapping) and DMA memory address
>>>>>>> translations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Looks very good overall, I noted some coding style issues - I didn't
>>>>>> bother reporting each issue in every place where it appears - reported
>>>>>> each issue once only, so please find and fix all instances of each
>>>>>> issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, because I was in urgent need for virtual test environment for
>>>>> Jailhouse, I hacked interrupt remapping on top of Le's patches:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://git.kiszka.org/?p=qemu.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/queues/vtd-intremap
>>>>>
>>>>> The approach likely needs further discussions and refinements but it
>>>>> already allows me to work on top with our hypervisor, and also Linux.
>>>>> You can see from the last commit that Le's work made it pretty easy to
>>>>> build this on top.
>>>>
>>>> Le,
>>>>
>>>> I have tried Jan's branch with my device setup which consists of a
>>>> minimal q35 setup, an ioh3420 root port (specified as -device
>>>> ioh3420,slot=0 ) and a pcie device plugged into that root port, which
>>>> gives the following lscpi -t:
>>>>
>>>> -[0000:00]-+-00.0
>>>>            +-01.0
>>>>            +-02.0
>>>>            +-03.0-[01]----00.0
>>>>            +-04.0
>>>>            +-1f.0
>>>>            +-1f.2
>>>>            \-1f.3
>>>>
>>>> All seems to work beautifully (I see the ISA bridge happily receive
>>>> translations) until the first DMA from my device model (at 1:00.0)
>>>> arrives, at which point I get:
>>>>
>>>> [ 1663.732413] dmar: DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:03.0] fault addr 
>>>> fffa0000
>>>> [ 1663.732413] DMAR:[fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
>>>>
>>>> I would have expected request device 01:00.0 for this.
>>>> It is not clear to me yet if this is a weakness of the implementation of
>>>> ioh3420 or the iommu. Just wanted to let you know right away in case you
>>>> can shed some light to it or it is an easy fix,
>>>>
>>>> The device uses pci_dma_rw with itself as device pointer.
>>>
>>> To verify my hypothesis: with this rude hack my device now works much
>>> better:
>>>
>>> @@ -774,6 +780,8 @@ static void iommu_translate(VTDAddressSpace *vtd_as,
>>> int bus_num, int devfn,
>>>          is_fpd_set = ce.lo & VTD_CONTEXT_ENTRY_FPD;
>>>      } else {
>>>          ret_fr = dev_to_context_entry(s, bus_num, devfn, &ce);
>>> +        if (ret_fr)
>>> +            ret_fr = dev_to_context_entry(s, 1, 0, &ce);
>>>          is_fpd_set = ce.lo & VTD_CONTEXT_ENTRY_FPD;
>>>          if (ret_fr) {
>>>              ret_fr = -ret_fr;
>>>
>>> Looking at how things look on hardware, multiple devices often receive
>>> overlapping DMA address ranges for different physical addresses.
>>>
>>> So if I understand the way this works, every requester ID would also
>>> need to have it's own unique VTDAddressSpace, as each pci
>>> device/function sees a unique DMA address space..
>>
>> ioh3420 is a pcie-to-pcie bridge, right? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> In my opinion, each pci-e
>> device behind the pcie-to-pcie bridge can be assigned individually.
>> For now I added the VT-d to q35 by just adding it to the root pci bus.
>> You can see here in q35.c:
>> pci_setup_iommu(pci_bus, q35_host_dma_iommu, mch->iommu);
>> So if we add a pcie-to-pcie bridge, we may have to call the
>> pci_setup_iommu() for that new bus. I don't know where to hook into
>> this now. :) If you know the mechanism behind that, you can try to add
>> that for the new bus. (I will dive into this after the clean up.)
>> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks for the quick answer, that helped a lot!
> 
> Looking into the details here I realize it is slightly more complicated:
> secondary buses are enumerated after device instantiation, as part of
> the host PCI enumeration, so if I add a similar setup call in the bridge
> setup, it will be called for a new device long before it has received
> it's bus number from the OS (via config[PCI_SECONDARY_BUS] )
> 
> I agree that the lookup function for contexts needs to be as efficient
> as possible so the simple <busno,defvn> lookup key may be the best
> solution but then the address_spaces table cannot be populated with the
> secondary bus entries before it receives a nonzero != 255 bus number,
> eg. along the lines of this: 
> 
> diff --git a/hw/pci/pci_bridge.c b/hw/pci/pci_bridge.c
> index 4becdc1..d9a8c23 100644
> --- a/hw/pci/pci_bridge.c
> +++ b/hw/pci/pci_bridge.c
> @@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ void pci_bridge_write_config(PCIDevice *d,
>          pci_bridge_update_mappings(s);
>      }
>  
> +    if (ranges_overlap(address, len, PCI_SECONDARY_BUS, 1)) {
> +        int bus_num = pci_bus_num(&s->sec_bus);
> +        if (bus_num != 0xff && bus_num != 0x00)
> +            <handle bus number change>
> +    }
> +
>      newctl = pci_get_word(d->config + PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL);
>      if (~oldctl & newctl & PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_BUS_RESET) {
>          /* Trigger hot reset on 0->1 transition. */
> 
> but it is getting complicated...
> Thoughts?

Point to the PCI bus from VTDAddressSpace instead of storing the bus_num
there?

Jan

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