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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-25 11:52:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-25 11:52:57 -0800
commitcac85e4616b1cf4a90844b952b49b9cbc4562530 (patch)
tree1d3d5f82188310497ced1a0ade2ab3b7a4346201 /Documentation
parent84cc6674b76ba2cdac0df8037b4d8a22a6fc1b77 (diff)
parentd649c34cb916b015fdcb487e51409fcc5caeca8d (diff)
Merge tag 'vfio-v6.3-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Remove redundant resource check in vfio-platform (Angus Chen) - Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for persistent userspace allocations, allowing removal of arbitrary kernel limits in favor of cgroup control (Yishai Hadas) - mdev tidy-ups, including removing the module-only build restriction for sample drivers, Kconfig changes to select mdev support, documentation movement to keep sample driver usage instructions with sample drivers rather than with API docs, remove references to out-of-tree drivers in docs (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix collateral breakages from mdev Kconfig changes (Arnd Bergmann) - Make mlx5 migration support match device support, improve source and target flows to improve pre-copy support and reduce downtime (Yishai Hadas) - Convert additional mdev sysfs case to use sysfs_emit() (Bo Liu) - Resolve copy-paste error in mdev mbochs sample driver Kconfig (Ye Xingchen) - Avoid propagating missing reset error in vfio-platform if reset requirement is relaxed by module option (Tomasz Duszynski) - Range size fixes in mlx5 variant driver for missed last byte and stricter range calculation (Yishai Hadas) - Fixes to suspended vaddr support and locked_vm accounting, excluding mdev configurations from the former due to potential to indefinitely block kernel threads, fix underflow and restore locked_vm on new mm (Steve Sistare) - Update outdated vfio documentation due to new IOMMUFD interfaces in recent kernels (Yi Liu) - Resolve deadlock between group_lock and kvm_lock, finally (Matthew Rosato) - Fix NULL pointer in group initialization error path with IOMMUFD (Yan Zhao) * tag 'vfio-v6.3-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (32 commits) vfio: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by uninitialized group->iommufd docs: vfio: Update vfio.rst per latest interfaces vfio: Update the kdoc for vfio_device_ops vfio/mlx5: Fix range size calculation upon tracker creation vfio: no need to pass kvm pointer during device open vfio: fix deadlock between group lock and kvm lock vfio: revert "iommu driver notify callback" vfio/type1: revert "implement notify callback" vfio/type1: revert "block on invalid vaddr" vfio/type1: restore locked_vm vfio/type1: track locked_vm per dma vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec() vfio/type1: exclude mdevs from VFIO_UPDATE_VADDR vfio: platform: ignore missing reset if disabled at module init vfio/mlx5: Improve the target side flow to reduce downtime vfio/mlx5: Improve the source side flow upon pre_copy vfio/mlx5: Check whether VF is migratable samples: fix the prompt about SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MBOCHS vfio/mdev: Use sysfs_emit() to instead of sprintf() vfio-mdev: add back CONFIG_VFIO dependency ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst108
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst82
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst1
3 files changed, 61 insertions, 130 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
index fdf7d69378ec..bbd548b66b42 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ devices as examples, as these devices are the first devices to use this module::
| mdev.ko |
| +-----------+ | mdev_register_parent() +--------------+
| | | +<------------------------+ |
- | | | | | nvidia.ko |<-> physical
+ | | | | | ccw_device.ko|<-> physical
| | | +------------------------>+ | device
| | | | callbacks +--------------+
| | Physical | |
@@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ devices as examples, as these devices are the first devices to use this module::
| | | | | i915.ko |<-> physical
| | | +------------------------>+ | device
| | | | callbacks +--------------+
- | | | |
- | | | | mdev_register_parent() +--------------+
- | | | +<------------------------+ |
- | | | | | ccw_device.ko|<-> physical
- | | | +------------------------>+ | device
- | | | | callbacks +--------------+
| +-----------+ |
+---------------+
@@ -270,106 +264,6 @@ these callbacks are supported in the TYPE1 IOMMU module. To enable them for
other IOMMU backend modules, such as PPC64 sPAPR module, they need to provide
these two callback functions.
-Using the Sample Code
-=====================
-
-mtty.c in samples/vfio-mdev/ directory is a sample driver program to
-demonstrate how to use the mediated device framework.
-
-The sample driver creates an mdev device that simulates a serial port over a PCI
-card.
-
-1. Build and load the mtty.ko module.
-
- This step creates a dummy device, /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
-
- Files in this device directory in sysfs are similar to the following::
-
- # tree /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
- /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
- |-- mdev_supported_types
- | |-- mtty-1
- | | |-- available_instances
- | | |-- create
- | | |-- device_api
- | | |-- devices
- | | `-- name
- | `-- mtty-2
- | |-- available_instances
- | |-- create
- | |-- device_api
- | |-- devices
- | `-- name
- |-- mtty_dev
- | `-- sample_mtty_dev
- |-- power
- | |-- autosuspend_delay_ms
- | |-- control
- | |-- runtime_active_time
- | |-- runtime_status
- | `-- runtime_suspended_time
- |-- subsystem -> ../../../../class/mtty
- `-- uevent
-
-2. Create a mediated device by using the dummy device that you created in the
- previous step::
-
- # echo "83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001" > \
- /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/mdev_supported_types/mtty-2/create
-
-3. Add parameters to qemu-kvm::
-
- -device vfio-pci,\
- sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001
-
-4. Boot the VM.
-
- In the Linux guest VM, with no hardware on the host, the device appears
- as follows::
-
- # lspci -s 00:05.0 -xxvv
- 00:05.0 Serial controller: Device 4348:3253 (rev 10) (prog-if 02 [16550])
- Subsystem: Device 4348:3253
- Physical Slot: 5
- Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
- Region 0: I/O ports at c150 [size=8]
- Region 1: I/O ports at c158 [size=8]
- Kernel driver in use: serial
- 00: 48 43 53 32 01 00 00 02 10 02 00 07 00 00 00 00
- 10: 51 c1 00 00 59 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
- 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 43 53 32
- 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
-
- In the Linux guest VM, dmesg output for the device is as follows:
-
- serial 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
- 0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xc150 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
- 0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xc158 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
-
-
-5. In the Linux guest VM, check the serial ports::
-
- # setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
- /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
- /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc150, IRQ: 10
- /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc158, IRQ: 10
-
-6. Using minicom or any terminal emulation program, open port /dev/ttyS1 or
- /dev/ttyS2 with hardware flow control disabled.
-
-7. Type data on the minicom terminal or send data to the terminal emulation
- program and read the data.
-
- Data is loop backed from hosts mtty driver.
-
-8. Destroy the mediated device that you created::
-
- # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001/remove
-
References
==========
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
index c663b6f97825..50b690f7f663 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst
@@ -249,19 +249,21 @@ VFIO bus driver API
VFIO bus drivers, such as vfio-pci make use of only a few interfaces
into VFIO core. When devices are bound and unbound to the driver,
-the driver should call vfio_register_group_dev() and
-vfio_unregister_group_dev() respectively::
+Following interfaces are called when devices are bound to and
+unbound from the driver::
- void vfio_init_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device,
- struct device *dev,
- const struct vfio_device_ops *ops);
- void vfio_uninit_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device);
int vfio_register_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device);
+ int vfio_register_emulated_iommu_dev(struct vfio_device *device);
void vfio_unregister_group_dev(struct vfio_device *device);
-The driver should embed the vfio_device in its own structure and call
-vfio_init_group_dev() to pre-configure it before going to registration
-and call vfio_uninit_group_dev() after completing the un-registration.
+The driver should embed the vfio_device in its own structure and use
+vfio_alloc_device() to allocate the structure, and can register
+@init/@release callbacks to manage any private state wrapping the
+vfio_device::
+
+ vfio_alloc_device(dev_struct, member, dev, ops);
+ void vfio_put_device(struct vfio_device *device);
+
vfio_register_group_dev() indicates to the core to begin tracking the
iommu_group of the specified dev and register the dev as owned by a VFIO bus
driver. Once vfio_register_group_dev() returns it is possible for userspace to
@@ -270,28 +272,64 @@ ready before calling it. The driver provides an ops structure for callbacks
similar to a file operations structure::
struct vfio_device_ops {
- int (*open)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
+ char *name;
+ int (*init)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
void (*release)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
+ int (*bind_iommufd)(struct vfio_device *vdev,
+ 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);
+ int (*open_device)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
+ void (*close_device)(struct vfio_device *vdev);
ssize_t (*read)(struct vfio_device *vdev, char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos);
- ssize_t (*write)(struct vfio_device *vdev,
- const char __user *buf,
- size_t size, loff_t *ppos);
+ ssize_t (*write)(struct vfio_device *vdev, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *size);
long (*ioctl)(struct vfio_device *vdev, unsigned int cmd,
unsigned long arg);
- int (*mmap)(struct vfio_device *vdev,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+ int (*mmap)(struct vfio_device *vdev, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+ void (*request)(struct vfio_device *vdev, unsigned int count);
+ int (*match)(struct vfio_device *vdev, char *buf);
+ void (*dma_unmap)(struct vfio_device *vdev, u64 iova, u64 length);
+ int (*device_feature)(struct vfio_device *device, u32 flags,
+ void __user *arg, size_t argsz);
};
Each function is passed the vdev that was originally registered
-in the vfio_register_group_dev() call above. This allows the bus driver
-to obtain its private data using container_of(). The open/release
-callbacks are issued when a new file descriptor is created for a
-device (via VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD). The ioctl interface provides
-a direct pass through for VFIO_DEVICE_* ioctls. The read/write/mmap
-interfaces implement the device region access defined by the device's
-own VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO ioctl.
+in the vfio_register_group_dev() or vfio_register_emulated_iommu_dev()
+call above. This allows the bus driver to obtain its private data using
+container_of().
+
+::
+
+ - The init/release callbacks are issued when vfio_device is initialized
+ and released.
+
+ - The open/close device callbacks are issued when the first
+ instance of a file descriptor for the device is created (eg.
+ via VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD) for a user session.
+
+ - The ioctl callback provides a direct pass through for some VFIO_DEVICE_*
+ ioctls.
+
+ - 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 read/write/mmap callbacks implement the device region access defined
+ by the device's own VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO ioctl.
+
+ - The request callback is issued when device is going to be unregistered,
+ such as when trying to unbind the device from the vfio bus driver.
+ - The dma_unmap callback is issued when a range of iovas are unmapped
+ in the container or IOAS attached by the device. Drivers which make
+ use of the vfio page pinning interface must implement this callback in
+ order to unpin pages within the dma_unmap range. Drivers must tolerate
+ this callback even before calls to open_device().
PPC64 sPAPR implementation note
-------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst
index 00f4a04f6d4c..d46e98c7c1ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ These are the steps:
* ZCRYPT
* S390_AP_IOMMU
* VFIO
- * VFIO_MDEV
* KVM
If using make menuconfig select the following to build the vfio_ap module::