[PATCH v3 2/2] spapr: Enable virtio iommu_platform=on by default

[David Gibson]

Traditionally, virtio devices don't do DMA by the usual path on the
guest platform.  In particular they usually bypass any virtual IOMMU
the guest has, using hypervisor magic to access untranslated guest
physical addresses.

There's now the optional iommu_platform flag which can tell virtio
devices to use the platform's normal DMA path, including any IOMMUs.
That flag was motiviated for the case of hardware virtio
implementations, but there are other reasons to want it.

Specifically, the fact that the virtio device doesn't use vIOMMU
translation means that virtio devices are unsafe to pass to nested
guests, or to use with VFIO userspace drivers inside the guest.  This
is particularly noticeable on the pseries platform which *always* has
a guest-visible vIOMMU.

Not using the normal DMA path also causes difficulties for the guest
side driver when using the upcoming POWER Secure VMs (a.k.a. PEF).
While it's theoretically possible to handle this on the guest side,
it's really fiddly.  Given the other problems with the non-translated
virtio device, let's just enable vIOMMU translation for virtio devices
by default in the pseries-5.0 (and later) machine types.

This does mean the new machine type will no longer support guest
kernels older than 4.8, unless they have support for the virtio
IOMMU_PLATFORM flag backported (which some distro kernels like RHEL7
do).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
---
 hw/ppc/spapr.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index 3cfc98ac61..5ef099536e 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -4575,6 +4575,7 @@ static void 
spapr_machine_latest_class_options(MachineClass *mc)
      */
     static GlobalProperty compat[] = {
         { TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy", "on", },
+        { TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", "on", },
     };
 
     mc->alias = "pseries";
@@ -4622,6 +4623,7 @@ static void spapr_machine_4_2_class_options(MachineClass 
*mc)
     SpaprMachineClass *smc = SPAPR_MACHINE_CLASS(mc);
     static GlobalProperty compat[] = {
         { TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy", "auto" },
+        { TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", "off", },
     };
 
     spapr_machine_5_0_class_options(mc);
-- 
2.24.1