Re: [PATCH] vfio/iommu_type1: report the IOMMU aperture info

From: Pierre Morel
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 09:49:48 EST


On 30/11/2017 15:16, Pierre Morel wrote:
On 30/11/2017 13:57, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
Hello,

On 30/11/17 11:34, Pierre Morel wrote:
[...]
+/**
+ * vfio_get_aperture - report minimal aperture of a vfio_iommu
+ * @iommu: the current vfio_iommu
+ * @start: a pointer to the aperture start
+ * @end  : a pointer to the aperture end
+ *
+ * This function iterate on the domains using the given vfio_iommu
+ * and restrict the aperture to the minimal aperture common
+ * to all domains sharing this vfio_iommu.
+ */
+static void vfio_get_aperture(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, uint64_t *start,
+                uint64_t *end)
+{
+    struct iommu_domain_geometry geometry;
+    struct vfio_domain *domain;
+
+    *start = 0;
+    *end = U64_MAX;

I wonder if the default values should also reflect what the VFIO
implementation actually supports. Looking at vfio_dma_do_map, a 32-bit
host will reject any iova greater than 32 bits. In addition,
vfio_dma_do_unmap doesn't support unmapping the last page of a 64-bit
address space (existing IOMMUs would probably reject map requests with
IOVA > 52 bits anyway, but if they don't report a domain aperture, VFIO
can't guess it).

I think it's convenient to use VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA on the full address
space when an unmap-all is needed, maybe we could provide default aperture
values that help doing this? (~0U for 32-bit and (~0ULL - PAGE_SIZE) for
64-bit)


indeed the error is to use uint64_t, I should *never* use this hardware specific values but simply unsigned long and -1UL/~0U at this level.

Shouldn't the 52bit problem be reported by the iommu geometry?



Thanks,
Jean


Thanks, I will take care of this.

Pierre




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