Re: [Qemu-ppc] [RFC PATCH 09/10] spapr_iommu: Provide a function to switch a TCE table to allowing VFIO

[Alex Williamson]

On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 23:09 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Because of the way non-VFIO guest IOMMU operations are KVM accelerated, not
> all TCE tables (guest IOMMU contexts) can support VFIO devices.  Currently,
> this is decided at creation time.
> 
> To support hotplug of VFIO devices, we need to allow a TCE table which
> previously didn't allow VFIO devices to be switched so that it can.  This
> patch adds an spapr_tce_need_vfio() function to do this, by reallocating
> the table in userspace if necessary.
> 
> Currently this doesn't allow the KVM acceleration to be re-enabled if all
> the VFIO devices are removed.  That's an optimization for another time.


Same comment as previous patch, spapr_tce_need_userspace_table() (or
something) makes the code much more self documenting.


> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c
> index 5166cde..109e10d 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c
> @@ -168,6 +168,25 @@ static int spapr_tce_table_realize(DeviceState *dev)
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> +void spapr_tce_need_vfio(sPAPRTCETable *tcet)
> +{
> +    size_t table_size = tcet->nb_table * sizeof(uint64_t);
> +    void *newtable;
> +
> +    if (tcet->fd < 0) {
> +        /* Table is already in userspace, nothing to be done */
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    newtable = g_malloc0(table_size);
> +    memcpy(newtable, tcet->table, table_size);
> +
> +    kvmppc_remove_spapr_tce(tcet->table, tcet->fd, tcet->nb_table);
> +
> +    tcet->fd = -1;
> +    tcet->table = newtable;
> +}
> +
>  sPAPRTCETable *spapr_tce_new_table(DeviceState *owner, uint32_t liobn,
>                                     uint64_t bus_offset,
>                                     uint32_t page_shift,
> diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> index 03a9804..38a29fb 100644
> --- a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> +++ b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> @@ -588,6 +588,8 @@ sPAPRTCETable *spapr_tce_new_table(DeviceState *owner, 
> uint32_t liobn,
>                                     uint32_t page_shift,
>                                     uint32_t nb_table,
>                                     bool need_vfio);
> +void spapr_tce_need_vfio(sPAPRTCETable *tcet);
> +
>  MemoryRegion *spapr_tce_get_iommu(sPAPRTCETable *tcet);
>  int spapr_dma_dt(void *fdt, int node_off, const char *propname,
>                   uint32_t liobn, uint64_t window, uint32_t size);