On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 12:00:08PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 08:41:37AM +0800, Yu Zhang wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:10:13PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:34:01AM +0800, Yu Zhang wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:15:26PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:19:20AM +0800, Yu Zhang wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to avoid poking at the CPU from VTD code. That's all. > > > > > > > > > > > > OK. So for the short term,how about I remove the check of host cpu, > > > > > > and add a TODO > > > > > > in the comments in vtd_decide_config()? > > > > > > > > > > My question would be what happens on an incorrect use? > > > > > > > > I believe the vfio_dma_map will return failure for an incorrect use. > > > > > > > > > And how does user figure out which values to set? > > > > > > > > Well, for now I don't think user can figure out. E.g. if we expose a > > > > vIOMMU with > > > > 48-bit IOVA capability, yet host only supports 39-bit IOVA, vfio shall > > > > return failure, > > > > but the user does not know whose fault it is. > > > > > > > > > > > As to the check against hardware IOMMU, Peter once had a proposal in > > > > > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg02281.html > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any comment or suggestion on Peter's proposal? > > > > > > > > > > Sounds reasonable to me. Do we do it on vfio attach or > > > > > unconditionally? > > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess on vfio attach? Will need more thinking in it. > > > > > > > > > Things like live migration (e.g. after hot removal of the vfio device) > > > are also concerns. > > > > Sorry, why live migration shall be a problem? I mean, if the DMA address > > width of vIOMMU does not match the host IOMMU's, we can just stop creating > > the VM, there's no live migration. > > I don't see code like this though. > > Also management needs to somehow be able to figure out that migration > will fail. It's not nice to transfer all memory and then have it fail > when viommu is migrated. So from that POV a flag is better. It can be > validated agains host capabilities. > > We can still have something like aw=host just like cpu host.
Well, I think vIOMMU's requirement is kind of different: 1> the vIOMMU could be an emulated one, and there can be no physical IOMMU underneath. And the emulated device can still use this vIOMMU; 2> there might be multiple physical IOMMUs on one platform, I am not sure if all these IOMMUs will have the same capability setting. So I think we should have a more generic solution, to check the host capability, e.g. like Kevin's and Peter's suggestion. It's not just about 5-level vIOMMU, existing 4-level vIOMMU and future virtual SVM have similar requirement. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I still do not quite know > > > > > > how to do it for now... > > > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > B.R. > > > > > > Yu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > MST > > > > > > > > B.R. > > > > Yu > > > > B.R. > > Yu > B.R. Yu