On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Using a vfio device, a notifier block can be registered to receive
> select device events. Notifiers can only be registered for contained
> devices, ie. they are available through a user context. Registration
> of a notifier increments the reference to that container context
> therefore notifiers must minimally respond to the release event by
> asynchronously removing notifiers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
> drivers/vfio/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/vfio.h | 9 +++++++++
> 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/Kconfig b/drivers/vfio/Kconfig
> index 90c0525b1e0c..9a67675c9b6c 100644
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/Kconfig
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ menuconfig VFIO
> tristate "VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework"
> select IOMMU_API
> select VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1 if (X86 || S390 || ARM || ARM64)
> + select SRCU
> help
> VFIO provides a framework for secure userspace device drivers.
> See Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst for more details.
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
> index c47895539a1a..7f6d00e54e83 100644
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct vfio_device {
> struct list_head group_next;
> void *device_data;
> struct inode *inode;
> + struct srcu_notifier_head notifier;
> };
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU
> @@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ struct vfio_device *vfio_group_create_device(struct
> vfio_group *group,
> device->ops = ops;
> device->device_data = device_data;
> dev_set_drvdata(dev, device);
> + srcu_init_notifier_head(&device->notifier);
>
> /* No need to get group_lock, caller has group reference */
> vfio_group_get(group);
> @@ -1785,6 +1787,39 @@ static const struct file_operations vfio_device_fops =
> {
> .mmap = vfio_device_fops_mmap,
> };
>
> +int vfio_device_register_notifier(struct vfio_device *device,
> + struct notifier_block *nb)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* Container ref persists until unregister on success */
> + ret = vfio_group_add_container_user(device->group);
I'm having trouble guessing why we need to refcount the group to add a
notifier to the device's notifier chain?
I suppose it actually has to do with the MMIO mapping? But I don't
know what the relation is between MMIO mappings in the IOMMU and the
container? This could deserve a comment?
> +void vfio_device_unregister_notifier(struct vfio_device *device,
> + struct notifier_block *nb)
> +{
> + if (!srcu_notifier_chain_unregister(&device->notifier, nb))
> + vfio_group_try_dissolve_container(device->group);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_device_unregister_notifier);
Is the SRCU still needed with the new locking? With a cursory look I
only noticed this called under the reflck->lock ?
Jason
