Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v5 1/2] memory/iommu/vfio: Define add_vfio_group() callback

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 01/12/17 10:09, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 08:56:42 +1100
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/10/17 16:50, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> The new callback will be called when a new VFIO IOMMU group is added.
>>>
>>> This should cause no behavioral change, the next patch will.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>  
>>
>>
>> What about this one,  any conclusion yet?
> 
> Patchew reported that if failed to build and you never replied with an
> explanation, so I haven't looked at it.

Well, this ping was more for David as he is supposedly rethingking it...

> 
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This could be at the higher level - in MemoryRegionOps, makes sense?
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  include/exec/memory.h |  4 ++++
>>>  hw/vfio/common.c      | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
>>> index 5ed4042f87..64e0b4fc96 100644
>>> --- a/include/exec/memory.h
>>> +++ b/include/exec/memory.h
>>> @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ typedef struct IOMMUMemoryRegionClass {
>>>                                  IOMMUNotifierFlag new_flags);
>>>      /* Set this up to provide customized IOMMU replay function */
>>>      void (*replay)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, IOMMUNotifier *notifier);
>>> +
>>> +    /* Notifies IOMMUMR about attached VFIO IOMMU group */
>>> +    void (*add_vfio_group)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu_mr, int vfio_kvm_fd,
>>> +                           int groupfd);
> 
> If there's an "add" why is there no remove?

Because I do not have use for it now and I doubt there will be any ever.
"add" attaches an IOMMU group to a DMA window in KVM, and I cannot imagine
if we ever want to detach a group _and_ keep using it.


> Clearly a vfio specific callback is pretty much a failure as far as
> abstraction and layering is concerned.


This was one of the things I wanted David to discuss with you as he clearly
did not like another abstraction violation:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9853981/




> 
>>>  } IOMMUMemoryRegionClass;
>>>  
>>>  typedef struct CoalescedMemoryRange CoalescedMemoryRange;
>>> diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c
>>> index 7b2924c0ef..9e861e0393 100644
>>> --- a/hw/vfio/common.c
>>> +++ b/hw/vfio/common.c
>>> @@ -481,6 +481,21 @@ static void vfio_listener_region_add(MemoryListener 
>>> *listener,
>>>          VFIOGuestIOMMU *giommu;
>>>          IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu_mr = IOMMU_MEMORY_REGION(section->mr);
>>>  
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>>> +        if (kvm_enabled()) {
>>> +            VFIOGroup *group;
>>> +            IOMMUMemoryRegionClass *imrc =
>>> +                IOMMU_MEMORY_REGION_GET_CLASS(iommu_mr);
>>> +
>>> +            QLIST_FOREACH(group, &container->group_list, container_next) {
>>> +                if (imrc->add_vfio_group) {
>>> +                    imrc->add_vfio_group(iommu_mr, vfio_kvm_device_fd,
>>> +                                         group->fd);
>>> +                }
>>> +            }
>>> +        }
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>>          trace_vfio_listener_region_add_iommu(iova, end);
>>>          /*
>>>           * FIXME: For VFIO iommu types which have KVM acceleration to
>>>   
>>
>>
> 


-- 
Alexey