Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] iommu/intel: Exclude devices using RMRRs from IOMMU API domains

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 15:44 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 07:16:22AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 13:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 06:22 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 08:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:35 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Any idea what an off-the-shelf Asus motherboard would be doing with an
> > > > > > RMRR on the Intel HD graphics?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > dmar: RMRR base: 0x000000bb800000 end: 0x000000bf9fffff
> > > > > > IOMMU: Setting identity map for device 0000:00:02.0 [0xbb800000 - 0xbf9fffff]
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hm, we should have thought of that sooner. That's quite normal â it's
> > > > > for the 'stolen' memory used for the framebuffer. And maybe also the
> > > > > GTT, and shadow GTT and other things; I forget precisely what, and it
> > > > > varies from one setup to another.
> > > > 
> > > > Why exactly do these things need to be identity mapped through the
> > > > IOMMU?  This sounds like something a normal device might do with a
> > > > coherent mapping.
> > > 
> > > The BIOS (EFI or VESA) sets up a framebuffer in stolen main memory. It's
> > > accessed by DMA, using the physical address. The RMRR exists because we
> > > need it *not* to suddenly stop working the moment the OS turns on the
> > > IOMMU.
> > > 
> > > The OS graphics driver, if any, is not loaded at this point.
> > > 
> > > And even later, the OS graphics driver may choose to make use of the
> > > 'stolen' memory for various purposes. And since it was already stolen,
> > > it doesn't go and set up *another* mapping for it; it knows that a
> > > mapping already exists.
> > > 
> > > > > I'd expect fairly much all systems to have an RMRR for the integrated
> > > > > graphics device if they have one, and your patch is going to prevent
> > > > > assignment of those to guests... as you've presumably noticed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm not sure if the i915 driver is capable of fully reprogramming the
> > > > > hardware to completely stop using that region, to allow assignment to a
> > > > > guest with a 'pure' memory map and no stolen region. I suppose it must,
> > > > > if assignment to guests was working correctly before?
> > > > 
> > > > IGD assignment has never worked with KVM.
> > > 
> > > Hm. It works with Xen though, doesn't it?
> > 
> > Apparently
> > 
> > > Are we content to say that it'll *never* work with KVM, and thus we can
> > > live with the fact that your patch makes it harder to fix whatever was
> > > wrong in the first place?
> > 
> > Probably not.  However, it seems like you're saying that this RMRR is
> > used by and visible to OS level drivers, versus backchannel
> > communication channels, invisible to the OS.  I think the latter is
> > specifically what we want to prevent by excluding devices with RMRRs.
> > This is a challenging use case, but it seems to be understood.  If when
> > IGD is bound to vfio-pci we can be sure that access to the RMRR area
> > ceases, then we can tear it down and re-establish it from
> > userspace/QEMU, describe it to the guest in an e820 reserved region, and
> > never consider hotplug of the device for guests.  If that's the case,
> > maybe it's another exception, like USB.  I'll need to look through i915
> > more to find how the region is discovered.  Thanks,
> 
> We have a bunch of register in the mmio bar set up by the bios that tells
> us the address and size of the stolen range we can use. The address we
> need for programming ptes, the size to know how much there is. We also
> have an early boot pci quirk in x86 nowadays to make sure the pci layer
> doesn't put random stuff in that range.
> 
> See drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c (search for stolen size)
> i915_gem_stolen.c (look at stolen_to_phys) and the early quirks in
> arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c for copies of the same code.

Ok, here's what I observe on my system for a few settings of iGPU memory
size in the BIOS.  The device ID for this IGD is 0152, so I'm using the
gen6_stolen_funcs stolen functions from early quirks for stolen
base/size.  I also report the ASL Storage base, ie. the opregion since
that also needs to be punched through if this device were to be
assigned.

"1024M"
[    0.628033] IOMMU: Setting identity map for device 0000:00:02.0 [0xbf800000 - 0xbf9fffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bf800000-0x00000000bf9fffff] reserved

setpci -s 2.0 5c.l
7fa00001
setpci -s 2.0 50.l
00000289

(289 >> 3) & 1f = 0x11, 17 * 32M = 544M

stolen memory range: 7fa00000-a1bfffff

setpci -s 2.0 fc.l
7ebb7018

So for the max iGPU memory option, our RMRR is 2M and it contains
neither the stolen memory nor the opregion (it never contains the
opregion apparently).  If the purpose of the RMRR is to maintain access
to the framebuffer in stolen memory across VT-d enabling, how does it
work here?  What's in the 2M RMRR and would it need to be mapped to a
guest if we wanted to support IGD assignment?

"512M"
[    0.627083] IOMMU: Setting identity map for device 0000:00:02.0 [0x9f800000 - 0xbf9fffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009f800000-0x00000000bf9fffff] reserved

setpci -s 2.0 5c.l
9fa00001
setpci -s 2.0 50.l
00000281

(281 >> 3) & 1f = 0x10, 16 * 32M = 512M

stolen memory range: 9fa00000-bf9fffff

setpci -s 2.0 fc.l
9ebb7018

With 512M iGPU memory, we're at least now using the RMRR for stolen
memory, but we still have an additional mystery 2M in the RMRR since
it's actually a 514M range.

"256M"
[    0.626030] IOMMU: Setting identity map for device 0000:00:02.0 [0xaf800000 - 0xbf9fffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000af800000-0x00000000bf9fffff] reserved

setpci -s 2.0 5c.l
afa00001
setpci -s 2.0 50.l
00000241

(241 >> 3) & 1f = 0x8, 8 * 32M = 256M

stolen memory range: afa00000-bf9fffff

setpci -s 2.0 fc.l
aebb7018

The 256M setting is a repeat of 512M, the RMRR is 258M and 256M of it is
stolen memory.

So we can say that sometimes the RMRR contains the stolen memory used as
a framebuffer, but that stolen memory is not always mapped with an RMRR
and there's an additional 2M in the RMRR that's still a mystery.  If we
wanted to support assignment of IGD, we could map the stolen memory and
the opregion, but what do we do that that extra RMRR space?  Ignore it?
Map it?  How do we find it from the device?  Thanks,

Alex

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