Re: [PATCH RFCv1 0/7] vfio: Allow userspace to specify the address for each MSI vector

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 02:17:46PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> > Yeah, I wasn't really suggesting to literally hook into this exact
> > case; it was more just a general observation that if VFIO already has
> > one justification for tinkering with pci_write_msi_msg() directly
> > without going through the msi_domain layer, then adding another
> > (wherever it fits best) can't be *entirely* unreasonable.

I'm not sure that we can assume VFIO is the only thing touching the
interrupt programming.

I think there is a KVM path, and also the /proc/ path that will change
the MSI affinity on the fly for a VFIO created IRQ. If the platform
requires a MSI update to do this (ie encoding affinity in the
add/data, not using IRQ remapping HW) then we still need to ensure the
correct MSI address is hooked in.

> >> Is it possible to do this with the existing write_msi_msg callback on
> >> the msi descriptor?  For instance we could simply translate the msg
> >> address and call pci_write_msi_msg() (while avoiding an infinite
> >> recursion).  Or maybe there should be an xlate_msi_msg callback we can
> >> register.  Or I suppose there might be a way to insert an irqchip that
> >> does the translation on write.  Thanks,
> >
> > I'm far from keen on the idea, but if there really is an appetite for
> > more indirection, then I guess the least-worst option would be yet
> > another type of iommu_dma_cookie to work via the existing
> > iommu_dma_compose_msi_msg() flow, 

For this direction I think I would turn iommu_dma_compose_msi_msg()
into a function pointer stored in the iommu_domain and have
vfio/iommufd provide its own implementation. The thing that is in
control of the domain's translation should be providing the msi_msg.

> > update per-device addresses direcitly. But then it's still going to
> > need some kind of "layering violation" for VFIO to poke the IRQ layer
> > into re-composing and re-writing a message whenever userspace feels
> > like changing an address

I think we'd need to get into the affinity update path and force a MSI
write as well, even if the platform isn't changing the MSI for
affinity. Processing a vMSI entry update would be two steps where we
update the MSI addr in VFIO and then set the affinity.

> for the record, the first integration was based on such distinct
> iommu_dma_cookie
> 
> [PATCH v15 00/12] SMMUv3 Nested Stage Setup (IOMMU part) <https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210411111228.14386-1-eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx/#r>, patches 8 - 11

There are some significant differences from that series with this idea:

 - We want to maintain a per-MSI-index/per-device lookup table. It
   is not just a simple cookie, the msi_desc->dev &&
   msi_desc->msi_index have to be matched against what userspace
   provides in the per-vMSI IOCTL

 - There would be no implicit progamming of the stage 2, this will be
   done directly in userspace by creating an IOAS area for the ITS page

 - It shouldn't have any sort of dynamic allocation behavior. It is an
   error for the kernel to ask for an msi_desc that userspace hasn't
   provided a mapping for
 
 - It should work well with nested and non-nested domains

Jason