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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] basic channel IO passthrough infrastru
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Dong Jia Shi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] basic channel IO passthrough infrastructure based on vfio |
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Fri, 19 May 2017 08:49:06 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
* Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> [2017-05-18 15:13:56 +0200]:
Hi Conny,
> On Wed, 17 May 2017 02:48:00 +0200
> Dong Jia Shi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > The patch series introduce a basic channel I/O passthrough
> > infrastructure based on vfio.
> > - Focus on supporting dasd-eckd(cu_type/dev_type = 0x3990/0x3390) as
> > the target device.
> > - Support new qemu parameters in the style of:
> > -machine s390-ccw-virtio(,s390-squash-mcss=on|off) \
> > -device vfio-ccw,sysfsdev=$MDEV_PATH
> > We want to support real (i.e. not virtual) channel devices even for
> > guests that do not support MCSS-E (where guests may see devices from
> > any channel subsystem image at once). As all virtio-ccw devices are in
> > css 0xfe (and show up in the default css 0 for guests not activating
> > MCSS-E), we need an option to squash e.g. passed-through channel devices
> > from their real css (0-3, or 0 for hosts not activating MCSS-E) into
> > the default css, that is what the new machine option s390-squash-css is
> > added.
>
> Patches queued, with minor changes (see my comments).
>
> I'll push out to s390-next once this passes some of my tests.
>
:-D
> >
> > Build and install:
> > 1. kernel configuration
> > CONFIG_S390_CCW_IOMMU=m
> > CONFIG_VFIO=m
> > CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV=m
> > CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE=m
> > CONFIG_VFIO_CCW=m
> > 2. modules required
> > modprobe vfio.ko
> > modprobe mdev.ko
> > modprobe vfio_mdev.ko
> > modprobe vfio_iommu_type1.ko
> > modprobe vfio_ccw.ko
> > 3. find a subchannel(0.0."%schid") of a DASD-ECKD device and bind it to
> > vfio_ccw driver
> > #find the dasd you can use with lsdasd on your host. e.g.:
> > devno="7e52"
> > schid="16ca"
> > #unbind the ccw device from the subchannel
> > echo 0.0."$devno" > /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0."$devno"/driver/unbind
> > #unbind the subchannel from io_subchannel driver
> > echo 0.0."$schid" > /sys/bus/css/devices/0.0."$schid"/driver/unbind
> > #bind the subchannel with vfio_ccw driver
> > echo 0.0."$schid" > /sys/bus/css/drivers/vfio_ccw/bind
> > 4. create a mediated device
> > #generate a uuid with uuidgen. e.g.:
> > uuid="6dfd3ec5-e8b3-4e18-a6fe-57bc9eceb920"
> > echo "$uuid" > \
> > /sys/bus/css/devices/0.0."$schid"/mdev_supported_types/vfio_ccw-io/create
> > 5. pass-through this device to a vm
> > -M s390-ccw-virtio,s390-squash-css=on \
> > -device vfio-ccw,sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/$uuid \
> > ... ...
>
> These instructions would be helpful to preserve in the qemu wiki and
> could even be expanded upon.
Nod.
> Ping me if you need an account (hint, hint ;)
(uh...)
Dear Frau, could you please kindly get me an account? Then I can try to
add a new page for vfio-ccw in the qemu wiki. ;)
I will ping you when you online.
Thanks!
--
Dong Jia Shi
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 06/13] s390x/css: device support for s390-ccw passthrough, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 06/13] s390x/css: device support for s390-ccw passthrough, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 07/13] vfio/ccw: vfio based subchannel passthrough driver, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 09/13] vfio/ccw: get irqs info and set the eventfd fd, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 11/13] s390x/css: ccw translation infrastructure, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 10/13] s390x/css: introduce and realize ccw-request callback, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 12/13] vfio/ccw: update sense data if a unit check is pending, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add vfio-ccw maintainer, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 08/13] vfio/ccw: get io region info, Dong Jia Shi, 2017/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] basic channel IO passthrough infrastructure based on vfio, Cornelia Huck, 2017/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] basic channel IO passthrough infrastructure based on vfio,
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