Re: [PATCH 0/2] virtio: decouple protected guest RAM form VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM
From: Jason Wang
Date: Mon Feb 24 2020 - 04:26:46 EST
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On 2020/2/24 äå3:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 02:45:03PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
On 2020/2/24 äå2:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:01:57PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
On 2020/2/21 äå10:56, Halil Pasic wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:22:26 +0800
Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2020/2/21 äå12:06, Halil Pasic wrote:
Currently if one intends to run a memory protection enabled VM with
virtio devices and linux as the guest OS, one needs to specify the
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM flag for each virtio device to make the guest
linux use the DMA API, which in turn handles the memory
encryption/protection stuff if the guest decides to turn itself into
a protected one. This however makes no sense due to multiple reasons:
* The device is not changed by the fact that the guest RAM is
protected. The so called IOMMU bypass quirk is not affected.
* This usage is not congruent with standardised semantics of
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM. Guest memory protected is an orthogonal reason
for using DMA API in virtio (orthogonal with respect to what is
expressed by VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM).
This series aims to decouple 'have to use DMA API because my (guest) RAM
is protected' and 'have to use DMA API because the device told me
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM'.
Please find more detailed explanations about the conceptual aspects in
the individual patches. There is however also a very practical problem
that is addressed by this series.
For vhost-net the feature VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM has the following side
effect The vhost code assumes it the addresses on the virtio descriptor
ring are not guest physical addresses but iova's, and insists on doing a
translation of these regardless of what transport is used (e.g. whether
we emulate a PCI or a CCW device). (For details see commit 6b1e6cc7855b
"vhost: new device IOTLB API".) On s390 this results in severe
performance degradation (c.a. factor 10).
Do you see a consistent degradation on the performance, or it only
happen when for during the beginning of the test?
AFAIK the degradation is consistent.
BTW with ccw I/O there is
(architecturally) no IOMMU, so the whole address translation makes no
sense in the context of virtio-ccw.
I suspect we can do optimization in qemu side.
E.g send memtable entry via IOTLB API when vIOMMU is not enabled.
If this makes sense, I can draft patch to see if there's any difference.
Frankly I would prefer to avoid IOVAs on the descriptor ring (and the
then necessary translation) for virtio-ccw altogether. But Michael
voiced his opinion that we should mandate F_IOMMU_PLATFORM for devices
that could be used with guests running in protected mode. I don't share
his opinion, but that's an ongoing discussion.
Should we end up having to do translation from IOVA in vhost, we are
very interested in that translation being fast and efficient.
In that sense we would be very happy to test any optimization that aim
into that direction.
Thank you very much for your input!
Using IOTLB API on platform without IOMMU support is not intended. Please
try the attached patch to see if it helps.
Thanks
Regards,
Halil
Thanks
Halil Pasic (2):
mm: move force_dma_unencrypted() to mem_encrypt.h
virtio: let virtio use DMA API when guest RAM is protected
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 +++
include/linux/dma-direct.h | 9 ---------
include/linux/mem_encrypt.h | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
base-commit: ca7e1fd1026c5af6a533b4b5447e1d2f153e28f2
>From 66fa730460875ac99e81d7db2334cd16bb1d2b27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:00:10 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] virtio: turn on IOMMU_PLATFORM properly
When transport does not support IOMMU, we should clear IOMMU_PLATFORM
even if the device and vhost claims to support that. This help to
avoid the performance overhead caused by unnecessary IOTLB miss/update
transactions on such platform.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
index d6332d45c3..2741b9fdd2 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ void virtio_bus_device_plugged(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp)
VirtioBusState *bus = VIRTIO_BUS(qbus);
VirtioBusClass *klass = VIRTIO_BUS_GET_CLASS(bus);
VirtioDeviceClass *vdc = VIRTIO_DEVICE_GET_CLASS(vdev);
- bool has_iommu = virtio_host_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
Error *local_err = NULL;
DPRINTF("%s: plug device.\n", qbus->name);
@@ -77,10 +76,11 @@ void virtio_bus_device_plugged(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp)
return;
}
- if (klass->get_dma_as != NULL && has_iommu) {
- virtio_add_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
+ if (false && klass->get_dma_as != NULL &&
+ virtio_host_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM)) {
vdev->dma_as = klass->get_dma_as(qbus->parent);
} else {
+ virtio_clear_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
vdev->dma_as = &address_space_memory;
}
}
This seems to clear it unconditionally. I guess it's just a debugging
patch, the real one will come later?
My bad, here's the correct one.
Thanks
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2.19.1
>From b8a8b582f46bb86c7a745b272db7b744779e5cc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:00:10 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] virtio: turn on IOMMU_PLATFORM properly
When transport does not support IOMMU, we should clear IOMMU_PLATFORM
even if the device and vhost claims to support that. This help to
avoid the performance overhead caused by unnecessary IOTLB miss/update
transactions on such platform.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
index d6332d45c3..4be64e193e 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ void virtio_bus_device_plugged(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp)
VirtioBusState *bus = VIRTIO_BUS(qbus);
VirtioBusClass *klass = VIRTIO_BUS_GET_CLASS(bus);
VirtioDeviceClass *vdc = VIRTIO_DEVICE_GET_CLASS(vdev);
- bool has_iommu = virtio_host_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
Error *local_err = NULL;
DPRINTF("%s: plug device.\n", qbus->name);
@@ -77,10 +76,11 @@ void virtio_bus_device_plugged(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp)
return;
}
- if (klass->get_dma_as != NULL && has_iommu) {
- virtio_add_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
So it looks like this line is unnecessary, but it's an unrelated
cleanup, right?
Yes.
+ if (klass->get_dma_as != NULL &&
+ virtio_host_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM)) {
vdev->dma_as = klass->get_dma_as(qbus->parent);
} else {
+ virtio_clear_feature(&vdev->host_features, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
Of course any change like that will have to affect migration compat, etc.
Can't we clear the bit when we are sending the features to vhost
instead?
That's better.
How about attached?
Thanks
vdev->dma_as = &address_space_memory;
}
}
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2.19.1