Re: [PATCH 3/3] vfio-user: Message-based DMA support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 01:06:27AM -0700, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> Wire up support for DMA for the case where the vfio-user client does not
> provide mmap()-able file descriptors, but DMA requests must be performed
> via the VFIO-user protocol. This installs an indirect memory region,
> which already works for pci_dma_{read,write}, and pci_dma_map works
> thanks to the existing DMA bounce buffering support.
> 
> Note that while simple scenarios work with this patch, there's a known
> race condition in libvfio-user that will mess up the communication
> channel: https://github.com/nutanix/libvfio-user/issues/279 I intend to
> contribute a fix for this problem, see discussion on the github issue
> for more details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mnissler@rivosinc.com>
> ---
>  hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c b/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
> index 8b10c32a3c..9799580c77 100644
> --- a/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
> +++ b/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
> @@ -300,6 +300,53 @@ static ssize_t vfu_object_cfg_access(vfu_ctx_t *vfu_ctx, 
> char * const buf,
>      return count;
>  }
>  
> +static MemTxResult vfu_dma_read(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t *val,
> +                                unsigned size, MemTxAttrs attrs)
> +{
> +    MemoryRegion *region = opaque;
> +    VfuObject *o = VFU_OBJECT(region->owner);
> +
> +    dma_sg_t *sg = alloca(dma_sg_size());
> +    vfu_dma_addr_t vfu_addr = (vfu_dma_addr_t)(region->addr + addr);
> +    if (vfu_addr_to_sgl(o->vfu_ctx, vfu_addr, size, sg, 1, PROT_READ) < 0 ||
> +        vfu_sgl_read(o->vfu_ctx, sg, 1, val) != 0) {

Does this work on big-endian host CPUs? It looks like reading 0x12345678
into uint64_t val would result in *val = 0x12345678xxxxxxxx instead of
0x12345678.

> +        return MEMTX_ERROR;
> +    }
> +
> +    return MEMTX_OK;
> +}
> +
> +static MemTxResult vfu_dma_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t val,
> +                                 unsigned size, MemTxAttrs attrs)
> +{
> +    MemoryRegion *region = opaque;
> +    VfuObject *o = VFU_OBJECT(region->owner);
> +
> +    dma_sg_t *sg = alloca(dma_sg_size());
> +    vfu_dma_addr_t vfu_addr = (vfu_dma_addr_t)(region->addr + addr);
> +    if (vfu_addr_to_sgl(o->vfu_ctx, vfu_addr, size, sg, 1, PROT_WRITE) < 0 ||
> +        vfu_sgl_write(o->vfu_ctx, sg, 1, &val) != 0)  {

Same potential endianness issue here.

Stefan

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