Re: [PATCH v3] block/nvme: introduce PMR support from NVMe 1.4 spec

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:03:03PM -0700, Andrzej Jakowski wrote:
> This patch introduces support for PMR that has been defined as part of NVMe 
> 1.4
> spec. User can now specify a pmrdev option that should point to 
> HostMemoryBackend.
> pmrdev memory region will subsequently be exposed as PCI BAR 2 in emulated 
> NVMe
> device. Guest OS can perform mmio read and writes to the PMR region that will 
> stay
> persistent across system reboot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Jakowski <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2:
>  - reworked PMR to use HostMemoryBackend instead of directly mapping PMR
>    backend file into qemu [1] (Stefan)
> 
> v1:
>  - provided support for Bit 1 from PMRWBM register instead of Bit 0 to ensure
>    improved performance in virtualized environment [2] (Stefan)
> 
>  - added check if pmr size is power of two in size [3] (David)
> 
>  - addressed cross compilation build problems reported by CI environment
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/address@hidden/
> [2]: 
> https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1_4-2019.06.10-Ratified.pdf
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/address@hidden/
> ---
> Persistent Memory Region (PMR) is a new optional feature provided in NVMe 1.4
> specification. This patch implements initial support for it in NVMe driver.
> ---
>  hw/block/nvme.c       | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  hw/block/nvme.h       |   2 +
>  hw/block/trace-events |   5 ++
>  include/block/nvme.h  | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/block/nvme.c b/hw/block/nvme.c
> index d28335cbf3..70fd09d293 100644
> --- a/hw/block/nvme.c
> +++ b/hw/block/nvme.c
> @@ -19,10 +19,18 @@
>   *      -drive file=<file>,if=none,id=<drive_id>
>   *      -device nvme,drive=<drive_id>,serial=<serial>,id=<id[optional]>, \
>   *              cmb_size_mb=<cmb_size_mb[optional]>, \
> + *              [pmrdev=<mem_backend_file_id>,] \
>   *              num_queues=<N[optional]>
>   *
>   * Note cmb_size_mb denotes size of CMB in MB. CMB is assumed to be at
>   * offset 0 in BAR2 and supports only WDS, RDS and SQS for now.
> + *
> + * Either cmb or pmr - due to limitation in available BAR indexes.

This isn't 100% clear.  Does this mean "cmb_size_mb= and pmrdev= are
mutually exclusive due to limited availability of BARs"?  Please
rephrase.

> + * pmr_file file needs to be power of two in size.
> + * Enabling pmr emulation can be achieved by pointing to memory-backend-file.
> + * For example:
> + * -object memory-backend-file,id=<mem_id>,share=on,mem-path=<file_path>, \
> + *  size=<size> .... -device nvme,...,pmrdev=<mem_id>
>   */
>  
>  #include "qemu/osdep.h"
> @@ -35,7 +43,9 @@
>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "qapi/visitor.h"
> +#include "sysemu/hostmem.h"
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
> +#include "exec/ramblock.h"
>  
>  #include "qemu/log.h"
>  #include "qemu/module.h"
> @@ -1141,6 +1151,26 @@ static void nvme_write_bar(NvmeCtrl *n, hwaddr offset, 
> uint64_t data,
>          NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_cmbsz_readonly,
>                         "invalid write to read only CMBSZ, ignored");
>          return;
> +    case 0xE00: /* PMRCAP */
> +        NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_pmrcap_readonly,
> +                       "invalid write to PMRCAP register, ignored");
> +        return;
> +    case 0xE04: /* TODO PMRCTL */
> +        break;
> +    case 0xE08: /* PMRSTS */
> +        NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_pmrsts_readonly,
> +                       "invalid write to PMRSTS register, ignored");
> +        return;
> +    case 0xE0C: /* PMREBS */
> +        NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_pmrebs_readonly,
> +                       "invalid write to PMREBS register, ignored");
> +        return;
> +    case 0xE10: /* PMRSWTP */
> +        NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_pmrswtp_readonly,
> +                       "invalid write to PMRSWTP register, ignored");
> +        return;
> +    case 0xE14: /* TODO PMRMSC */
> +         break;
>      default:
>          NVME_GUEST_ERR(nvme_ub_mmiowr_invalid,
>                         "invalid MMIO write,"
> @@ -1169,6 +1199,23 @@ static uint64_t nvme_mmio_read(void *opaque, hwaddr 
> addr, unsigned size)
>      }
>  
>      if (addr < sizeof(n->bar)) {
> +        /*
> +         * When PMRWBM bit 1 is set then read from
> +         * from PMRSTS should ensure prior writes
> +         * made it to persistent media
> +         */
> +        if (addr == 0xE08 &&
> +            (NVME_PMRCAP_PMRWBM(n->bar.pmrcap) & 0x02) >> 1) {
> +            int status;
> +
> +            status = qemu_msync((void *)n->pmrdev->mr.ram_block->host,
> +                                n->pmrdev->size,
> +                                n->pmrdev->mr.ram_block->fd);

Please use qemu_ram_writeback() so that pmem_persist() and qemu_msync()
are used as appropriate.

Stefan

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