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Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree
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Peter Xu |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:28:37 -0500 |
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 12:23:20PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:25 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems not super clear on when iova_tree is used, and why. Add a rich
> > comment above iova_tree to track why we needed the iova_tree, and when we
> > need it.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h b/include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h
> > index 46d973e629..8d130ab2e3 100644
> > --- a/include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h
> > +++ b/include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h
> > @@ -109,7 +109,35 @@ struct VTDAddressSpace {
> > QLIST_ENTRY(VTDAddressSpace) next;
> > /* Superset of notifier flags that this address space has */
> > IOMMUNotifierFlag notifier_flags;
> > - IOVATree *iova_tree; /* Traces mapped IOVA ranges */
> > + /*
> > + * @iova_tree traces mapped IOVA ranges.
> > + *
> > + * The tree is not needed if no MAP notifiers is registered with
> > + * current VTD address space, because all UNMAP (including iotlb or
> > + * dev-iotlb) events can be transparently delivered to !MAP iommu
> > + * notifiers.
>
> So this means the UNMAP notifier doesn't need to be as accurate as
> MAP. (Should we document it in the notifier headers)?
Yes.
>
> For MAP[a, b] MAP[b, c] we can do a UNMAP[a. c].
IIUC a better way to say this is, for MAP[a, b] we can do an UNMAP[a-X,
b+Y] as long as the range covers [a, b]?
>
> > + *
> > + * The tree OTOH is required for MAP typed iommu notifiers for a few
> > + * reasons.
> > + *
> > + * Firstly, there's no way to identify whether an PSI event is MAP or
> > + * UNMAP within the PSI message itself. Without having prior knowledge
> > + * of existing state vIOMMU doesn't know whether it should notify MAP
> > + * or UNMAP for a PSI message it received.
> > + *
> > + * Secondly, PSI received from guest driver (or even a large PSI can
> > + * grow into a DSI at least with Linux intel-iommu driver) can be
> > + * larger in range than the newly mapped ranges for either MAP or UNMAP
> > + * events.
>
> Yes, so I think we need a document that the UNMAP handler should be
> prepared for this.
How about I squash below into this same patch?
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
index 91f8a2395a..c83bd11a68 100644
--- a/include/exec/memory.h
+++ b/include/exec/memory.h
@@ -129,6 +129,24 @@ struct IOMMUTLBEntry {
/*
* Bitmap for different IOMMUNotifier capabilities. Each notifier can
* register with one or multiple IOMMU Notifier capability bit(s).
+ *
+ * Normally there're two use cases for the notifiers:
+ *
+ * (1) When the device needs accurate synchronizations of the vIOMMU page
+ * tables, it needs to register with both MAP|UNMAP notifies (which
+ * is defined as IOMMU_NOTIFIER_IOTLB_EVENTS below). As long as MAP
+ * events are registered, the notifications will be accurate but
+ * there's overhead on synchronizing the guest vIOMMU page tables.
+ *
+ * (2) When the device doesn't need accurate synchronizations of the
+ * vIOMMU page tables (when the device can both cache translations
+ * and requesting to translate dynamically during DMA process), it
+ * needs to register only with UNMAP or DEVIOTLB_UNMAP notifies.
+ * Note that in such working mode shadow page table is not used for
+ * vIOMMU unit on this address space, so the UNMAP messages can be
+ * actually larger than the real invalidations (just like how the
+ * Linux IOMMU driver normally works, where an invalidation can be
+ * enlarged as long as it still covers the target range).
*/
typedef enum {
IOMMU_NOTIFIER_NONE = 0,
Thanks,
--
Peter Xu
- [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Peter Xu, 2022/12/01
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Jason Wang, 2022/12/04
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree,
Peter Xu <=
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Jason Wang, 2022/12/06
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Eric Auger, 2022/12/06
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Peter Xu, 2022/12/06
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Eric Auger, 2022/12/06
- Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Document iova_tree, Peter Xu, 2022/12/06