On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 01:50:47PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 02:03:51PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote: > > > On 01/29/2016 08:33 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > >>> We know that x86 handles MSI vectors specially, so there is some > > > >>> hardware that helps the situation. It's not just that x86 has a fixed > > > >>> range for MSI, it's how it manages that range when interrupt remapping > > > >>> hardware is enabled. A device table indexed by source-ID references a > > > >>> per device table indexed by data from the MSI write itself. So we get > > > >>> much, much finer granularity, > > > >> About the granularity, I think ARM GICv3 now provides a similar > > > >> capability with GICv3 ITS (interrupt translation service). Along with > > > >> the MSI MSG write transaction, the device outputs a DeviceID conveyed > > > >> on > > > >> the bus. This DeviceID (~ your source-ID) enables to index a device > > > >> table. The entry in the device table points to a DeviceId interrupt > > > >> translation table indexed by the EventID found in the msi msg. So the > > > >> entry in the interrupt translation table eventually gives you the > > > >> eventual interrupt ID targeted by the MSI MSG. > > > >> This translation capability if not available in GICv2M though, ie. the > > > >> one I am currently using. > > > >> > > > >> Those tables currently are built by the ITS irqchip (irq-gic-v3-its.c) > > > > That's right. GICv3/ITS disambiguates the interrupt source using the > > DeviceID, which for PCI is derived from the Requester ID of the endpoint. > > GICv2m is less flexible and requires a separate physical frame per guest > > to achieve isolation. > > > We should still support MSI passthrough with a single MSI frame host > system though, right?
I think we should treat the frame as an exclusive resource and assign it to a single VM. > (Users should just be aware that guests are not fully protected against > misbehaving hardware in that case). Is it confined to misbehaving hardware? What if a malicious/buggy guest configures its device to DMA all over the doorbell? Will
