iommufd can directly implement the /dev/vfio/vfio container IOCTLs by
mapping them into io_pagetable operations.
A userspace application can test against iommufd and confirm compatibility
then simply make a small change to open /dev/iommu instead of
/dev/vfio/vfio.
For testing purposes /dev/vfio/vfio can be symlinked to /dev/iommu and
then all applications will use the compatibility path with no code
changes. A later series allows /dev/vfio/vfio to be directly provided by
iommufd, which allows the rlimit mode to work the same as well.
This series just provides the iommufd side of compatibility. Actually
linking this to VFIO_SET_CONTAINER is a followup series, with a link in
the cover letter.
Internally the compatibility API uses a normal IOAS object that, like
vfio, is automatically allocated when the first device is
attached.
Userspace can also query or set this IOAS object directly using the
IOMMU_VFIO_IOAS ioctl. This allows mixing and matching new iommufd only
features while still using the VFIO style map/unmap ioctls.
While this is enough to operate qemu, it has a few differences:
- Resource limits rely on memory cgroups to bound what userspace can do
instead of the module parameter dma_entry_limit.
- VFIO P2P is not implemented. The DMABUF patches for vfio are a start at
a solution where iommufd would import a special DMABUF. This is to avoid
further propogating the follow_pfn() security problem.
- A full audit for pedantic compatibility details (eg errnos, etc) has
not yet been done
- powerpc SPAPR is left out, as it is not connected to the iommu_domain
framework. It seems interest in SPAPR is minimal as it is currently
non-working in v6.1-rc1. They will have to convert to the iommu
subsystem framework to enjoy iommfd.
The following are not going to be implemented and we expect to remove them
from VFIO type1:
- SW access 'dirty tracking'. As discussed in the cover letter this will
be done in VFIO.
- VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU
https://lore.kernel.org/all/0-v1-0093c9b0e345+19-vfio_no_nesting_jgg@nvidia.com/
- VFIO_DMA_MAP_FLAG_VADDR
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yz777bJZjTyLrHEQ@nvidia.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/15-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Connect the IOAS to its IOCTL interface. This exposes most of the
functionality in the io_pagetable to userspace.
This is intended to be the core of the generic interface that IOMMUFD will
provide. Every IOMMU driver should be able to implement an iommu_domain
that is compatible with this generic mechanism.
It is also designed to be easy to use for simple non virtual machine
monitor users, like DPDK:
- Universal simple support for all IOMMUs (no PPC special path)
- An IOVA allocator that considers the aperture and the allowed/reserved
ranges
- io_pagetable allows any number of iommu_domains to be connected to the
IOAS
- Automatic allocation and re-use of iommu_domains
Along with room in the design to add non-generic features to cater to
specific HW functionality.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
This is the basic infrastructure of a new miscdevice to hold the iommufd
IOCTL API.
It provides:
- A miscdevice to create file descriptors to run the IOCTL interface over
- A table based ioctl dispatch and centralized extendable pre-validation
step
- An xarray mapping userspace ID's to kernel objects. The design has
multiple inter-related objects held within in a single IOMMUFD fd
- A simple usage count to build a graph of object relations and protect
against hostile userspace racing ioctls
The only IOCTL provided in this patch is the generic 'destroy any object
by handle' operation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Jason Gunthorpe