[PATCH v7 00/12] Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

From: Xie Yongji
Date: Mon May 17 2021 - 05:56:02 EST

This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
control path forwarding and data path offloading.

In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
those control messages.

In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.

In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.

The details and our user case is shown below:

------------------------ ------------------------- ----------------------------------------------
| Container | | QEMU(VM) | | VDUSE daemon |
| --------- | | ------------------- | | ------------------------- ---------------- |
| |dev/vdx| | | |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x| | | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
------------+----------- -----------+------------ -------------+----------------------+---------
| | | |
| | | |
------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
| | block device | | vhost device | | vduse driver | | TCP/IP | |
| -------+-------- --------+-------- -------+-------- -----+---- |
| | | | | |
| ----------+---------- ----------+----------- -------+------- | |
| | virtio-blk driver | | vhost-vdpa driver | | vdpa device | | |
| ----------+---------- ----------+----------- -------+------- | |
| | virtio bus | | | |
| --------+----+----------- | | | |
| | | | | |
| ----------+---------- | | | |
| | virtio-blk device | | | | |
| ----------+---------- | | | |
| | | | | |
| -----------+----------- | | | |
| | virtio-vdpa driver | | | | |
| -----------+----------- | | | |
| | | | vdpa bus | |
| -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------ | |
| ---+--- |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
---+---
|
---------+---------
| Remote Storages |
-------------------

We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.

To test it with null-blk:

$ qemu-storage-daemon \
--chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait \
--monitor chardev=charmonitor \
--blockdev driver=host_device,cache.direct=on,aio=native,filename=/dev/nullb0,node-name=disk0 \
--export type=vduse-blk,id=test,node-name=disk0,writable=on,name=vduse-null,num-queues=16,queue-size=128

The qemu-storage-daemon can be found at https://github.com/bytedance/qemu/tree/vduse

To make the userspace VDUSE processes such as qemu-storage-daemon able to
run unprivileged. We did some works on virtio driver to avoid trusting
device, including:

- validating the device status:

* https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210517093428.670-1-xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

- validating the used length:

* https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210517090836.533-1-xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

- validating the device config:

* patch 4 ("virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space")

- validating the device response:

* patch 5 ("virtio_scsi: Add validation for residual bytes from response")

Since I'm not sure if I missing something during auditing, especially on some
virtio device drivers that I'm not familiar with, now we only support emualting
a few vDPA devices by default, including: virtio-net device, virtio-blk device,
virtio-scsi device and virtio-fs device. This limitaion can help to reduce
security risks. When a sysadmin trusts the userspace process enough, it can relax
the limitation with a 'allow_unsafe_device_emulation' module parameter.

Future work:
- Improve performance
- Userspace library (find a way to reuse device emulation code in qemu/rust-vmm)

V6 to V7:
- Export alloc_iova_fast()
- Add get_config_size() callback
- Add some patches to avoid trusting virtio devices
- Add limited device emulation
- Add some documents
- Use workqueue to inject config irq
- Add parameter on vq irq injecting
- Rename vduse_domain_get_mapping_page() to vduse_domain_get_coherent_page()
- Add WARN_ON() to catch message failure
- Add some padding/reserved fields to uAPI structure
- Fix some bugs
- Rebase to vhost.git

V5 to V6:
- Export receive_fd() instead of __receive_fd()
- Factor out the unmapping logic of pa and va separatedly
- Remove the logic of bounce page allocation in page fault handler
- Use PAGE_SIZE as IOVA allocation granule
- Add EPOLLOUT support
- Enable setting API version in userspace
- Fix some bugs

V4 to V5:
- Remove the patch for irq binding
- Use a single IOTLB for all types of mapping
- Factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map()
- Add some sample codes in document
- Use receice_fd_user() to pass file descriptor
- Fix some bugs

V3 to V4:
- Rebase to vhost.git
- Split some patches
- Add some documents
- Use ioctl to inject interrupt rather than eventfd
- Enable config interrupt support
- Support binding irq to the specified cpu
- Add two module parameter to limit bounce/iova size
- Create char device rather than anon inode per vduse
- Reuse vhost IOTLB for iova domain
- Rework the message mechnism in control path

V2 to V3:
- Rework the MMU-based IOMMU driver
- Use the iova domain as iova allocator instead of genpool
- Support transferring vma->vm_file in vhost-vdpa
- Add SVA support in vhost-vdpa
- Remove the patches on bounce pages reclaim

V1 to V2:
- Add vhost-vdpa support
- Add some documents
- Based on the vdpa management tool
- Introduce a workqueue for irq injection
- Replace interval tree with array map to store the iova_map

Xie Yongji (12):
iova: Export alloc_iova_fast()
file: Export receive_fd() to modules
eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal()
virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space
virtio_scsi: Add validation for residual bytes from response
vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB
vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map()
vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap()
vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping
vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver
vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE

Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1 +
Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst | 243 ++++
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 2 +-
drivers/iommu/iova.c | 1 +
drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 2 +-
drivers/vdpa/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/vdpa/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 2 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 9 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 8 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile | 5 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c | 531 +++++++
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h | 70 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 1453 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c | 2 +-
drivers/vhost/iotlb.c | 20 +-
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 148 +-
fs/eventfd.c | 2 +-
fs/file.c | 6 +
include/linux/eventfd.h | 5 +-
include/linux/file.h | 7 +-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 21 +-
include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h | 3 +
include/uapi/linux/vduse.h | 178 +++
26 files changed, 2681 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h
create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h

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