Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] KVM: page track: add a new notifier type: track_flush_slot

[Jike Song]

On 10/11/2016 05:47 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/10/2016 11:21, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/11/2016 04:54 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/10/2016 04:39, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/11/2016 02:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/10/2016 20:01, Neo Jia wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Neo,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AFAIK this is needed because KVMGT doesn't paravirtualize the PPGTT,
>>>>>>> while nVidia does.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Paolo and Xiaoguang,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am just wondering how device driver can register a notifier so he
>>>>>> can be
>>>>>> notified for write-protected pages when writes are happening.
>>>>>
>>>>> It can't yet, but the API is ready for that.  kvm_vfio_set_group is
>>>>> currently where a struct kvm_device* and struct vfio_group* touch.
>>>>> Given
>>>>> a struct kvm_device*, dev->kvm provides the struct kvm to be passed to
>>>>> kvm_page_track_register_notifier.  So I guess you could add a callback
>>>>> that passes the struct kvm_device* to the mdev device.
>>>>>
>>>>> Xiaoguang and Guangrong, what were your plans?  We discussed it briefly
>>>>> at KVM Forum but I don't remember the details.
>>>>
>>>> Your suggestion was that pass kvm fd to KVMGT via VFIO, so that we can
>>>> figure out the kvm instance based on the fd.
>>>>
>>>> We got a new idea, how about search the kvm instance by mm_struct, it
>>>> can work as KVMGT is running in the vcpu context and it is much more
>>>> straightforward.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I didn't understand your suggestion, but the same mm_struct can
>>> have more than 1 struct kvm so I'm not sure that it can work.
>>
>> vcpu->pid is valid during vcpu running so that it can be used to figure
>> out which kvm instance owns the vcpu whose pid is the one as current
>> thread, i think it can work. :)
> 
> No, don't do that.  There's no reason for a thread to run a single VCPU,
> and if you can have multiple VCPUs you can also have multiple VCPUs from
> multiple VMs.
> 
> Passing file descriptors around are the right way to connect subsystems.

[CC Alex, Kevin and Qemu-devel]

Hi Paolo & Alex,

IIUC, passing file descriptors means touching QEMU and the UAPI between
QEMU and VFIO. Would you guys have a look at below draft patch? If it's
on the correct direction, I'll send the split ones. Thanks!

--
Thanks,
Jike


diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c b/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c
index bec694c..f715d37 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@
  * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/range.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "hw/nvram/fw_cfg.h"
 #include "pci.h"
+#include "sysemu/kvm.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 
 /* Use uin32_t for vendor & device so PCI_ANY_ID expands and cannot match hw */
@@ -1844,3 +1846,15 @@ void vfio_setup_resetfn_quirk(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev)
         break;
     }
 }
+
+void vfio_quirk_kvmgt(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev)
+{
+    int vmfd;
+
+    if (!kvm_enabled() || !vdev->kvmgt)
+        return;
+
+    /* Tell the device what KVM it attached */
+    vmfd = kvm_get_vmfd(kvm_state);
+    ioctl(vdev->vbasedev.fd, VFIO_SET_KVMFD, vmfd);
+}
diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
index a5a620a..8732552 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
@@ -2561,6 +2561,8 @@ static int vfio_initfn(PCIDevice *pdev)
         return ret;
     }
 
+    vfio_quirk_kvmgt(vdev);
+
     /* Get a copy of config space */
     ret = pread(vdev->vbasedev.fd, vdev->pdev.config,
                 MIN(pci_config_size(&vdev->pdev), vdev->config_size),
@@ -2832,6 +2834,7 @@ static Property vfio_pci_dev_properties[] = {
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("x-pci-sub-device-id", VFIOPCIDevice,
                        sub_device_id, PCI_ANY_ID),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("x-igd-gms", VFIOPCIDevice, igd_gms, 0),
+    DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("kvmgt", VFIOPCIDevice, kvmgt, false),
     /*
      * TODO - support passed fds... is this necessary?
      * DEFINE_PROP_STRING("vfiofd", VFIOPCIDevice, vfiofd_name),
diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.h b/hw/vfio/pci.h
index 7d482d9..813832c 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/pci.h
+++ b/hw/vfio/pci.h
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ typedef struct VFIOPCIDevice {
     bool no_kvm_intx;
     bool no_kvm_msi;
     bool no_kvm_msix;
+    bool kvmgt;
 } VFIOPCIDevice;
 
 uint32_t vfio_pci_read_config(PCIDevice *pdev, uint32_t addr, int len);
@@ -166,4 +167,6 @@ int vfio_populate_vga(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev);
 int vfio_pci_igd_opregion_init(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev,
                                struct vfio_region_info *info);
 
+void vfio_quirk_kvmgt(VFIOPCIDevice *vdev);
+
 #endif /* HW_VFIO_VFIO_PCI_H */
diff --git a/include/sysemu/kvm.h b/include/sysemu/kvm.h
index df67cc0..dd8320a 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/kvm.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/kvm.h
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ void phys_mem_set_alloc(void *(*alloc)(size_t, uint64_t 
*align));
 int kvm_ioctl(KVMState *s, int type, ...);
 
 int kvm_vm_ioctl(KVMState *s, int type, ...);
+int kvm_get_vmfd(KVMState *s);
 
 int kvm_vcpu_ioctl(CPUState *cpu, int type, ...);
 
diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index efb5fe3..bd72ce3 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -2065,6 +2065,11 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl(KVMState *s, int type, ...)
     return ret;
 }
 
+int kvm_get_vmfd(KVMState *s)
+{
+       return s->vmfd;
+}
+
 int kvm_vcpu_ioctl(CPUState *cpu, int type, ...)
 {
     int ret;
diff --git a/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h b/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
index 759b850..952303f 100644
--- a/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
@@ -686,6 +686,12 @@ struct vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_remove {
 };
 #define VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE    _IO(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 20)
 
+
+/**
+ * VFIO_SET_KVMFD - _IO(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 21, __u32)
+ */
+#define VFIO_SET_KVMFD         _IO(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 21)
+
 /* ***************************************************************** */
 
 #endif /* VFIO_H */