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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-30 20:36:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-30 20:36:01 -0700
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Merge tag 'vfio-v6.6-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - VFIO direct character device (cdev) interface support. This extracts the vfio device fd from the container and group model, and is intended to be the native uAPI for use with IOMMUFD (Yi Liu) - Enhancements to the PCI hot reset interface in support of cdev usage (Yi Liu) - Fix a potential race between registering and unregistering vfio files in the kvm-vfio interface and extend use of a lock to avoid extra drop and acquires (Dmitry Torokhov) - A new vfio-pci variant driver for the AMD/Pensando Distributed Services Card (PDS) Ethernet device, supporting live migration (Brett Creeley) - Cleanups to remove redundant owner setup in cdx and fsl bus drivers, and simplify driver init/exit in fsl code (Li Zetao) - Fix uninitialized hole in data structure and pad capability structures for alignment (Stefan Hajnoczi) * tag 'vfio-v6.6-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (53 commits) vfio/pds: Send type for SUSPEND_STATUS command vfio/pds: fix return value in pds_vfio_get_lm_file() pds_core: Fix function header descriptions vfio: align capability structures vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak vfio/fsl-mc: Use module_fsl_mc_driver macro to simplify the code vfio/cdx: Remove redundant initialization owner in vfio_cdx_driver vfio/pds: Add Kconfig and documentation vfio/pds: Add support for firmware recovery vfio/pds: Add support for dirty page tracking vfio/pds: Add VFIO live migration support vfio/pds: register with the pds_core PF pds_core: Require callers of register/unregister to pass PF drvdata vfio/pds: Initial support for pds VFIO driver vfio: Commonize combine_ranges for use in other VFIO drivers kvm/vfio: avoid bouncing the mutex when adding and deleting groups kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() docs: vfio: Add vfio device cdev description vfio: Compile vfio_group infrastructure optionally vfio: Move the IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY check in __vfio_register_dev() ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
index 68abc089d6ddd1..633d11c7fa7100 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
@@ -239,6 +239,137 @@ group and can access them as follows::
/* Gratuitous device reset and go... */
ioctl(device, VFIO_DEVICE_RESET);
+IOMMUFD and vfio_iommu_type1
+----------------------------
+
+IOMMUFD is the new user API to manage I/O page tables from userspace.
+It intends to be the portal of delivering advanced userspace DMA
+features (nested translation [5]_, PASID [6]_, etc.) while also providing
+a backwards compatibility interface for existing VFIO_TYPE1v2_IOMMU use
+cases. Eventually the vfio_iommu_type1 driver, as well as the legacy
+vfio container and group model is intended to be deprecated.
+
+The IOMMUFD backwards compatibility interface can be enabled two ways.
+In the first method, the kernel can be configured with
+CONFIG_IOMMUFD_VFIO_CONTAINER, in which case the IOMMUFD subsystem
+transparently provides the entire infrastructure for the VFIO
+container and IOMMU backend interfaces. The compatibility mode can
+also be accessed if the VFIO container interface, ie. /dev/vfio/vfio is
+simply symlink'd to /dev/iommu. Note that at the time of writing, the
+compatibility mode is not entirely feature complete relative to
+VFIO_TYPE1v2_IOMMU (ex. DMA mapping MMIO) and does not attempt to
+provide compatibility to the VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU interface. Therefore
+it is not generally advisable at this time to switch from native VFIO
+implementations to the IOMMUFD compatibility interfaces.
+
+Long term, VFIO users should migrate to device access through the cdev
+interface described below, and native access through the IOMMUFD
+provided interfaces.
+
+VFIO Device cdev
+----------------
+
+Traditionally user acquires a device fd via VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD
+in a VFIO group.
+
+With CONFIG_VFIO_DEVICE_CDEV=y the user can now acquire a device fd
+by directly opening a character device /dev/vfio/devices/vfioX where
+"X" is the number allocated uniquely by VFIO for registered devices.
+cdev interface does not support noiommu devices, so user should use
+the legacy group interface if noiommu is wanted.
+
+The cdev only works with IOMMUFD. Both VFIO drivers and applications
+must adapt to the new cdev security model which requires using
+VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD to claim DMA ownership before starting to
+actually use the device. Once BIND succeeds then a VFIO device can
+be fully accessed by the user.
+
+VFIO device cdev doesn't rely on VFIO group/container/iommu drivers.
+Hence those modules can be fully compiled out in an environment
+where no legacy VFIO application exists.
+
+So far SPAPR does not support IOMMUFD yet. So it cannot support device
+cdev either.
+
+vfio device cdev access is still bound by IOMMU group semantics, ie. there
+can be only one DMA owner for the group. Devices belonging to the same
+group can not be bound to multiple iommufd_ctx or shared between native
+kernel and vfio bus driver or other driver supporting the driver_managed_dma
+flag. A violation of this ownership requirement will fail at the
+VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD ioctl, which gates full device access.
+
+Device cdev Example
+-------------------
+
+Assume user wants to access PCI device 0000:6a:01.0::
+
+ $ ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:6a:01.0/vfio-dev/
+ vfio0
+
+This device is therefore represented as vfio0. The user can verify
+its existence::
+
+ $ ls -l /dev/vfio/devices/vfio0
+ crw------- 1 root root 511, 0 Feb 16 01:22 /dev/vfio/devices/vfio0
+ $ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:6a:01.0/vfio-dev/vfio0/dev
+ 511:0
+ $ ls -l /dev/char/511\:0
+ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 16 01:22 /dev/char/511:0 -> ../vfio/devices/vfio0
+
+Then provide the user with access to the device if unprivileged
+operation is desired::
+
+ $ chown user:user /dev/vfio/devices/vfio0
+
+Finally the user could get cdev fd by::
+
+ cdev_fd = open("/dev/vfio/devices/vfio0", O_RDWR);
+
+An opened cdev_fd doesn't give the user any permission of accessing
+the device except binding the cdev_fd to an iommufd. After that point
+then the device is fully accessible including attaching it to an
+IOMMUFD IOAS/HWPT to enable userspace DMA::
+
+ struct vfio_device_bind_iommufd bind = {
+ .argsz = sizeof(bind),
+ .flags = 0,
+ };
+ struct iommu_ioas_alloc alloc_data = {
+ .size = sizeof(alloc_data),
+ .flags = 0,
+ };
+ struct vfio_device_attach_iommufd_pt attach_data = {
+ .argsz = sizeof(attach_data),
+ .flags = 0,
+ };
+ struct iommu_ioas_map map = {
+ .size = sizeof(map),
+ .flags = IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_READABLE |
+ IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_WRITEABLE |
+ IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FIXED_IOVA,
+ .__reserved = 0,
+ };
+
+ iommufd = open("/dev/iommu", O_RDWR);
+
+ bind.iommufd = iommufd;
+ ioctl(cdev_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD, &bind);
+
+ ioctl(iommufd, IOMMU_IOAS_ALLOC, &alloc_data);
+ attach_data.pt_id = alloc_data.out_ioas_id;
+ ioctl(cdev_fd, VFIO_DEVICE_ATTACH_IOMMUFD_PT, &attach_data);
+
+ /* Allocate some space and setup a DMA mapping */
+ map.user_va = (int64_t)mmap(0, 1024 * 1024, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
+ map.iova = 0; /* 1MB starting at 0x0 from device view */
+ map.length = 1024 * 1024;
+ map.ioas_id = alloc_data.out_ioas_id;;
+
+ ioctl(iommufd, IOMMU_IOAS_MAP, &map);
+
+ /* Other device operations as stated in "VFIO Usage Example" */
+
VFIO User API
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -279,6 +410,7 @@ similar to a file operations structure::
struct iommufd_ctx *ictx, u32 *out_device_id);
void (*unbind_iommufd)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
int (*attach_ioas)(struct vfio_device *vdev, u32 *pt_id);
+ void (*detach_ioas)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
int (*open_device)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
void (*close_device)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
ssize_t (*read)(struct vfio_device *vdev, char __user *buf,
@@ -315,9 +447,10 @@ container_of().
- The [un]bind_iommufd callbacks are issued when the device is bound to
and unbound from iommufd.
- - The attach_ioas callback is issued when the device is attached to an
- IOAS managed by the bound iommufd. The attached IOAS is automatically
- detached when the device is unbound from iommufd.
+ - The [de]attach_ioas callback is issued when the device is attached to
+ and detached from an IOAS managed by the bound iommufd. However, the
+ attached IOAS can also be automatically detached when the device is
+ unbound from iommufd.
- The read/write/mmap callbacks implement the device region access defined
by the device's own VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO ioctl.
@@ -564,3 +697,11 @@ This implementation has some specifics:
\-0d.1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
+
+.. [5] Nested translation is an IOMMU feature which supports two stage
+ address translations. This improves the address translation efficiency
+ in IOMMU virtualization.
+
+.. [6] PASID stands for Process Address Space ID, introduced by PCI
+ Express. It is a prerequisite for Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA)
+ and Scalable I/O Virtualization (Scalable IOV).