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2018-05-08vfio: fix documentationDong Bo1-3/+2
Update vfio_add_group_dev description to match the current API. Signed-off-by: Dong Bo <dongbo4@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-14vfio.txt: standardize document formatMauro Carvalho Chehab1-137/+144
Each text file under Documentation follows a different format. Some doesn't even have titles! Change its representation to follow the adopted standard, using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx: - adjust title marks; - use footnote marks; - mark literal blocks; - adjust identation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-06-11vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support Dynamic DMA windowsAlexey Kardashevskiy1-0/+19
This adds create/remove window ioctls to create and remove DMA windows. sPAPR defines a Dynamic DMA windows capability which allows para-virtualized guests to create additional DMA windows on a PCI bus. The existing linux kernels use this new window to map the entire guest memory and switch to the direct DMA operations saving time on map/unmap requests which would normally happen in a big amounts. This adds 2 ioctl handlers - VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_CREATE and VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE - to create and remove windows. Up to 2 windows are supported now by the hardware and by this driver. This changes VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_GET_INFO handler to return additional information such as a number of supported windows and maximum number levels of TCE tables. DDW is added as a capability, not as a SPAPR TCE IOMMU v2 unique feature as we still want to support v2 on platforms which cannot do DDW for the sake of TCE acceleration in KVM (coming soon). Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> [aw: for the vfio related changes] Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-11vfio: powerpc/spapr: Register memory and define IOMMU v2Alexey Kardashevskiy1-3/+28
The existing implementation accounts the whole DMA window in the locked_vm counter. This is going to be worse with multiple containers and huge DMA windows. Also, real-time accounting would requite additional tracking of accounted pages due to the page size difference - IOMMU uses 4K pages and system uses 4K or 64K pages. Another issue is that actual pages pinning/unpinning happens on every DMA map/unmap request. This does not affect the performance much now as we spend way too much time now on switching context between guest/userspace/host but this will start to matter when we add in-kernel DMA map/unmap acceleration. This introduces a new IOMMU type for SPAPR - VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_v2_IOMMU. New IOMMU deprecates VFIO_IOMMU_ENABLE/VFIO_IOMMU_DISABLE and introduces 2 new ioctls to register/unregister DMA memory - VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_REGISTER_MEMORY and VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_UNREGISTER_MEMORY - which receive user space address and size of a memory region which needs to be pinned/unpinned and counted in locked_vm. New IOMMU splits physical pages pinning and TCE table update into 2 different operations. It requires: 1) guest pages to be registered first 2) consequent map/unmap requests to work only with pre-registered memory. For the default single window case this means that the entire guest (instead of 2GB) needs to be pinned before using VFIO. When a huge DMA window is added, no additional pinning will be required, otherwise it would be guest RAM + 2GB. The new memory registration ioctls are not supported by VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU. Dynamic DMA window and in-kernel acceleration will require memory to be preregistered in order to work. The accounting is done per the user process. This advertises v2 SPAPR TCE IOMMU and restricts what the userspace can do with v1 or v2 IOMMUs. In order to support memory pre-registration, we need a way to track the use of every registered memory region and only allow unregistration if a region is not in use anymore. So we need a way to tell from what region the just cleared TCE was from. This adds a userspace view of the TCE table into iommu_table struct. It contains userspace address, one per TCE entry. The table is only allocated when the ownership over an IOMMU group is taken which means it is only used from outside of the powernv code (such as VFIO). As v2 IOMMU supports IODA2 and pre-IODA2 IOMMUs (which do not support DDW API), this creates a default DMA window for IODA2 for consistency. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> [aw: for the vfio related changes] Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-05-12drivers/vfio: Support EEH error injectionGavin Shan1-0/+12
The patch adds one more EEH sub-command (VFIO_EEH_PE_INJECT_ERR) to inject the specified EEH error, which is represented by (struct vfio_eeh_pe_err), to the indicated PE for testing purpose. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-08-05drivers/vfio: EEH support for VFIO PCI deviceGavin Shan1-3/+84
The patch adds new IOCTL commands for sPAPR VFIO container device to support EEH functionality for PCI devices, which have been passed through from host to somebody else via VFIO. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-09-05vfio: fix documentationZi Shen Lim1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim <zishen.lim@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-07-10Merge tag 'vfio-v3.11' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
Pull vfio updates from Alex Williamson: "Largely hugepage support for vfio/type1 iommu and surrounding cleanups and fixes" * tag 'vfio-v3.11' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio/type1: Fix leak on error path vfio: Limit group opens vfio/type1: Fix missed frees and zero sized removes vfio: fix documentation vfio: Provide module option to disable vfio_iommu_type1 hugepage support vfio: hugepage support for vfio_iommu_type1 vfio: Convert type1 iommu to use rbtree
2013-06-21vfio: fix documentationAlexey Kardashevskiy1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-06-20powerpc/vfio: Implement IOMMU driver for VFIOAlexey Kardashevskiy1-0/+63
VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as a PCI driver, BAR access (via read/write on a file descriptor or direct mapping when possible) and IRQ signaling. The platform dependent part includes IOMMU initialization and handling. This implements an IOMMU driver for VFIO which does mapping/unmapping pages for the guest IO and provides information about DMA window (required by a POWER guest). Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-21vfio: Trivial Documentation correctionAlex Williamson1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31vfio: Add documentationAlex Williamson1-0/+314
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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