Hi, The Mediate Device is a framework for fine-grained physical device sharing across the isolated domains. Currently the mdev framework is designed to be independent of the platform IOMMU support. As the result, the DMA isolation relies on the mdev parent device in a vendor specific way.
There are several cases where a mediated device could be protected and isolated by the platform IOMMU. For example, Intel vt-d rev3.0 [1] introduces a new translation mode called 'scalable mode', which enables PASID-granular translations. The vt-d scalable mode is the key ingredient for Scalable I/O Virtualization [2] [3] which allows sharing a device in minimal possible granularity (ADI - Assignable Device Interface). A mediated device backed by an ADI could be protected and isolated by the IOMMU since 1) the parent device supports tagging an unique PASID to all DMA traffic out of the mediated device; and 2) the DMA translation unit (IOMMU) supports the PASID granular translation. We can apply IOMMU protection and isolation to this kind of devices just as what we are doing with an assignable PCI device. In order to distinguish the IOMMU-capable mediated devices from those which still need to rely on parent devices, this patch set adds one new member in struct mdev_device. * iommu_device - This, if set, indicates that the mediated device could be fully isolated and protected by IOMMU via attaching an iommu domain to this device. If empty, it indicates using vendor defined isolation. Below helpers are added to set and get above iommu device in mdev core implementation. * mdev_set/get_iommu_device(dev, iommu_device) - Set or get the iommu device which represents this mdev in IOMMU's device scope. Drivers don't need to set the iommu device if it uses vendor defined isolation. The mdev parent device driver could opt-in that the mdev could be fully isolated and protected by the IOMMU when the mdev is being created by invoking mdev_set_iommu_device() in its @create(). In the vfio_iommu_type1_attach_group(), a domain allocated through iommu_domain_alloc() will be attached to the mdev iommu device if an iommu device has been set. Otherwise, the dummy external domain will be used and all the DMA isolation and protection are routed to parent driver as the result. On IOMMU side, a basic requirement is allowing to attach multiple domains to a PCI device if the device advertises the capability and the IOMMU hardware supports finer granularity translations than the normal PCI Source ID based translation. As the result, a PCI device could work in two modes: normal mode and auxiliary mode. In the normal mode, a pci device could be isolated in the Source ID granularity; the pci device itself could be assigned to a user application by attaching a single domain to it. In the auxiliary mode, a pci device could be isolated in finer granularity, hence subsets of the device could be assigned to different user level application by attaching a different domain to each subset. Below APIs are introduced in iommu generic layer for aux-domain purpose: * iommu_dev_has_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_AUX) - Check whether both IOMMU and device support IOMMU aux domain feature. Below aux-domain specific interfaces are available only after this returns true. * iommu_dev_enable/disable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_AUX) - Enable/disable device specific aux-domain feature. * iommu_aux_attach_device(domain, dev) - Attaches @domain to @dev in the auxiliary mode. Multiple domains could be attached to a single device in the auxiliary mode with each domain representing an isolated address space for an assignable subset of the device. * iommu_aux_detach_device(domain, dev) - Detach @domain which has been attached to @dev in the auxiliary mode. * iommu_aux_get_pasid(domain, dev) - Return ID used for finer-granularity DMA translation. For the Intel Scalable IOV usage model, this will be a PASID. The device which supports Scalable IOV needs to write this ID to the device register so that DMA requests could be tagged with a right PASID prefix. In order for the ease of discussion, sometimes we call "a domain in auxiliary mode' or simply 'an auxiliary domain' when a domain is attached to a device for finer granularity translations. But we need to keep in mind that this doesn't mean there is a differnt domain type. A same domain could be bound to a device for Source ID based translation, and bound to another device for finer granularity translation at the same time. This patch series extends both IOMMU and vfio components to support mdev device passing through when it could be isolated and protected by the IOMMU units. The first part of this series (PATCH 1/08~5/08) adds the interfaces and implementation of the multiple domains per device. The second part (PATCH 6/08~8/08) adds the iommu device attribute to each mdev, determines isolation type according to the existence of an iommu device when attaching group in vfio type1 iommu module, and attaches the domain to iommu aware mediated devices. References: [1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/download/intel-virtualization-technology-for-directed-io-architecture-specification [2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/download/intel-scalable-io-virtualization-technical-specification [3] https://schd.ws/hosted_files/lc32018/00/LC3-SIOV-final.pdf Best regards, Lu Baolu Change log: v4->v5: - The iommu APIs have been updated with Joerg's proposal posted here https://www.spinics.net/lists/iommu/msg31874.html. - Some typos in commit message and comments have been fixed. - PATCH 3/8 was split from 4/8 to ease code review. - mdev->domain was removed and could bring back when there's a real consumer. - Other code review comments I received during v4 review period except the EXPORT_SYMBOL vs. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in PATCH 6/8. - Rebase all patches to 5.0-rc1. v3->v4: - Use aux domain specific interfaces for domain attach and detach. - Rebase all patches to 4.20-rc1. v2->v3: - Remove domain type enum and use a pointer on mdev_device instead. - Add a generic interface for getting/setting per device iommu attributions. And use it for query aux domain capability, enable aux domain and disable aux domain purpose. - Reuse iommu_domain_get_attr() to retrieve the id in a aux domain. - We discussed the impact of the default domain implementation on reusing iommu_at(de)tach_device() interfaces. We agreed that reusing iommu_at(de)tach_device() interfaces is the right direction and we could tweak the code to remove the impact. https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg175285.html - Removed the RFC tag since no objections received. - This patch has been submitted separately. https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg173936.html v1->v2: - Rewrite the patches with the concept of auxiliary domains. Lu Baolu (8): iommu: Add APIs for multiple domains per device iommu/vt-d: Add per-device IOMMU feature ops entries iommu/vt-d: Move common code out of iommu_attch_device() iommu/vt-d: Aux-domain specific domain attach/detach iommu/vt-d: Return ID associated with an auxiliary domain vfio/mdev: Add iommu related member in mdev_device vfio/type1: Add domain at(de)taching group helpers vfio/type1: Handle different mdev isolation type drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 304 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 80 ++++++++ drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 18 ++ drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h | 1 + drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 132 ++++++++++++-- include/linux/intel-iommu.h | 11 ++ include/linux/iommu.h | 61 +++++++ include/linux/mdev.h | 14 ++ 8 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1