Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] s390x/vfio: ap: Introduce VFIO AP device

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:22:52 +0100
Halil Pasic <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 03/16/2018 11:42 AM, Pierre Morel wrote:
> > On 16/03/2018 00:24, Tony Krowiak wrote:  
> >> Introduces a VFIO based AP device. The device is defined via
> >> the QEMU command line by specifying:
> >>
> >>      -device vfio-ap,sysfsdev=<path-to-mediated-matrix-device>
> >>
> >> The mediated matrix device is created by the VFIO AP device
> >> driver by writing a UUID to a sysfs attribute file (see
> >> docs/vfio-ap.txt). The mediated matrix device will be named
> >> after the UUID. Symbolic links to the $uuid are created in
> >> many places, so the path to the mediated matrix device $uuid
> >> can be specified in any of the following ways:
> >>
> >> /sys/devices/vfio_ap/matrix/$uuid
> >> /sys/devices/vfio_ap/matrix/mdev_supported_types/vfio_ap-passthrough/devices/$uuid
> >> /sys/bus/mdev/devices/$uuid
> >> /sys/bus/mdev/drivers/vfio_mdev/$uuid
> >>
> >> When the vfio-ap device is realized, it acquires and opens the
> >> VFIO iommu group to which the mediated matrix device is
> >> bound. This causes a VFIO group notification event to be
> >> signaled. The vfio_ap device driver's group notification
> >> handler will get called at which time the device driver
> >> will configure the the AP devices to which the guest will
> >> be granted access.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <address@hidden>
> >> ---  
> [..]
> >> +static void vfio_ap_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> >> +{
> >> +    VFIODevice *vbasedev;
> >> +    VFIOGroup *vfio_group;
> >> +    APDevice *apdev = DO_UPCAST(APDevice, parent_obj, dev);
> >> +    VFIOAPDevice *vapdev = DO_UPCAST(VFIOAPDevice, apdev, apdev);
> >> +    char *mdevid;
> >> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
> >> +    int ret;
> >> +
> >> +    if (!s390_has_feat(S390_FEAT_AP)) {
> >> +        error_setg(&local_err, "AP support not enabled");
> >> +        goto out_err;
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >> +    ret = kvm_s390_set_interpret_ap(1);  
> > 
> > If we have several devices, this is called once per device.  
> 
> I don't think having several of these in a single vm makes
> any sense. Or does it? IMHO we should make sure there is at
> most one device taking care of the crypto pass-through.

Yes, I think we should fence off adding a second device in the realize
function (probably by checking a global variable?)