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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V4 1/4] vfio: introduce a new VFIO subregion
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Zhang, Yulei |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V4 1/4] vfio: introduce a new VFIO subregion for mdev device migration support |
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Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:36:53 +0000 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Williamson [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:15 AM
> To: Kirti Wankhede <address@hidden>
> Cc: Zhang, Yulei <address@hidden>; address@hidden; Tian,
> Kevin <address@hidden>; address@hidden;
> address@hidden; Wang, Zhi A <address@hidden>;
> address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V4 1/4] vfio: introduce a new VFIO subregion for
> mdev device migration support
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:14:03 +0530
> Kirti Wankhede <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 4/10/2018 11:32 AM, Yulei Zhang wrote:
> > > New VFIO sub region VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DEVICE_STATE is added
> > > to fetch and restore the status of mdev device vGPU during the
> > > live migration.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yulei Zhang <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > > hw/vfio/pci.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > hw/vfio/pci.h | 2 ++
> > > linux-headers/linux/vfio.h | 9 ++++++---
> > > 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> > > index c977ee3..f98a9dd 100644
> > > --- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
> > > +++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> > > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> > > #include "pci.h"
> > > #include "trace.h"
> > > #include "qapi/error.h"
> > > +#include "migration/blocker.h"
> > >
> > > #define MSIX_CAP_LENGTH 12
> > >
> > > @@ -2821,6 +2822,25 @@ static void vfio_realize(PCIDevice *pdev, Error
> **errp)
> > > vfio_vga_quirk_setup(vdev);
> > > }
> > >
> > > + struct vfio_region_info *device_state;
> > > + /* device state region setup */
> > > + if (!vfio_get_dev_region_info(&vdev->vbasedev,
> > > + VFIO_REGION_TYPE_PCI_VENDOR_TYPE,
>
> This is not how VENDOR_TYPE is meant to be used. We have a 32-bit type
> and 32-bit sub-type. When bit 31 of type is set (ie. VENDOR_TYPE),
> then the low 16-bits (VENDOR_MASK) defines a vendor specific set of
> sub-types. Using it as above, you're stomping on vendor 0x0000's
> vendor sub-types. I would expect non-vendor specific types to leave
> bit 31 of the type field clear. We could then define a universal type
> for device state with a sub-type specifying the API such that we could
> revise the API by providing an updated sub-type. Or perhaps there are
> devices that want separate save vs restore regions, we could do that
> with the sub-type.
Got it. For the subtype, can we use it to specify how to use the region,
to indicate it can be mmaped or not.
>
> > > + VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DEVICE_STATE, &device_state)) {
> > > + memcpy(&vdev->device_state, device_state,
> > > + sizeof(struct vfio_region_info));
> > > + g_free(device_state);
> > > + } else {
> > > + error_setg(&vdev->migration_blocker,
> > > + "Migration disabled: cannot support device state
> > > region");
> > > + migrate_add_blocker(vdev->migration_blocker, &err);
>
> This appears as if it's going to be rather verbose and generate errors
> for anything not supporting migration, which is currently everything.
> Maybe there should be an OnOffAuto vfio-pci device option for the user
> to specify migration such that if migration=on is specified the device
> will fail if it's not available. Otherwise the default would be auto.
>
We only get this error message when we try to migrate the guest with
vfio-pci device which doesn't contain the device_state region, just like
currently we set unmigratable=1.
> > > + if (err) {
> > > + error_propagate(errp, err);
> > > + error_free(vdev->migration_blocker);
> > > + goto error;
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > +
> >
> > I think there should be a _PROBE ioctl before trying to setup region for
> > migration. If vfio device driver or vendor driver for mdev device
> > supports migration capability, _PROBE ioctl should return success along
> > with region's information <index, size> which can be used to setup the
> > region.
>
> How is _PROBE different from _REGION_INFO which already exists to tell
> us information about the region?
>
> > > for (i = 0; i < PCI_ROM_SLOT; i++) {
> > > vfio_bar_quirk_setup(vdev, i);
> > > }
> > > @@ -2884,6 +2904,10 @@ out_teardown:
> > > vfio_teardown_msi(vdev);
> > > vfio_bars_exit(vdev);
> > > error:
> > > + if (vdev->migration_blocker) {
> > > + migrate_del_blocker(vdev->migration_blocker);
> > > + error_free(vdev->migration_blocker);
> > > + }
> > > error_prepend(errp, ERR_PREFIX, vdev->vbasedev.name);
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -3009,7 +3033,6 @@ static Property vfio_pci_dev_properties[] = {
> > >
> > > static const VMStateDescription vfio_pci_vmstate = {
> > > .name = "vfio-pci",
> > > - .unmigratable = 1,
> >
> > Based on the result of above _PROBE ioctl, 'unmigratable' should be set
> > if vendor driver doesn't support migration capability.
>
> .unmigratable isn't really dynamically settable aiui, thus the
> existence of the migration blocker.
>
> > > };
> > >
> > > static void vfio_pci_dev_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
> > > diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.h b/hw/vfio/pci.h
> > > index 502a575..0ee1724 100644
> > > --- a/hw/vfio/pci.h
> > > +++ b/hw/vfio/pci.h
> > > @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ typedef struct VFIOPCIDevice {
> > > VFIOBAR bars[PCI_NUM_REGIONS - 1]; /* No ROM */
> > > VFIOVGA *vga; /* 0xa0000, 0x3b0, 0x3c0 */
> > > void *igd_opregion;
> > > + struct vfio_region_info device_state;
> > > + Error *migration_blocker;
> > > PCIHostDeviceAddress host;
> > > EventNotifier err_notifier;
> > > EventNotifier req_notifier;
> > > diff --git a/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h b/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
> > > index 4312e96..e3380ad 100644
> > > --- a/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
> > > +++ b/linux-headers/linux/vfio.h
> > > @@ -297,9 +297,12 @@ struct vfio_region_info_cap_type {
> > > #define VFIO_REGION_TYPE_PCI_VENDOR_MASK (0xffff)
> > >
> > > /* 8086 Vendor sub-types */
> > > -#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_OPREGION (1)
> > > -#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_HOST_CFG (2)
> > > -#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_LPC_CFG (3)
> > > +#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_OPREGION (1)
> > > +#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_HOST_CFG (2)
> > > +#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_INTEL_IGD_LPC_CFG (3)
> > > +
> > > +/* Mdev sub-type for device state save and restore */
> > > +#define VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_DEVICE_STATE (4)
>
> This continues on with the 0x8086 vendor sub-types, which is entirely
> unnecessary as each vendor has an entire sub-type address space and we
> shouldn't be using a vendor type anyway. Additionally, we need
> significantly more documentation on the API for this region. Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
> > >
> > > /**
> > > * VFIO_DEVICE_GET_IRQ_INFO - _IOWR(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 9,
> > >