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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2023-12-20 09:39:18 -0500
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Merge tag 'pull-vfio-20231219' of https://github.com/legoater/qemu into staging
vfio queue:

* Introduce an IOMMU interface backend for VFIO devices
* Convert IOMMU type1 and sPAPR IOMMU to respective backends
* Introduce a new IOMMUFD backend for ARM, x86_64 and s390x platforms

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* tag 'pull-vfio-20231219' of https://github.com/legoater/qemu: (47 commits)
  hw/ppc/Kconfig: Imply VFIO_PCI
  docs/devel: Add VFIO iommufd backend documentation
  vfio: Introduce a helper function to initialize VFIODevice
  vfio/ccw: Move VFIODevice initializations in vfio_ccw_instance_init
  vfio/ap: Move VFIODevice initializations in vfio_ap_instance_init
  vfio/platform: Move VFIODevice initializations in vfio_platform_instance_init
  vfio/pci: Move VFIODevice initializations in vfio_instance_init
  hw/i386: Activate IOMMUFD for q35 machines
  kconfig: Activate IOMMUFD for s390x machines
  hw/arm: Activate IOMMUFD for virt machines
  vfio: Make VFIOContainerBase poiner parameter const in VFIOIOMMUOps callbacks
  vfio/ccw: Make vfio cdev pre-openable by passing a file handle
  vfio/ccw: Allow the selection of a given iommu backend
  vfio/ap: Make vfio cdev pre-openable by passing a file handle
  vfio/ap: Allow the selection of a given iommu backend
  vfio/platform: Make vfio cdev pre-openable by passing a file handle
  vfio/platform: Allow the selection of a given iommu backend
  vfio/pci: Make vfio cdev pre-openable by passing a file handle
  vfio/pci: Allow the selection of a given iommu backend
  vfio/iommufd: Enable pci hot reset through iommufd cdev interface
  ...

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/devel/index-internals.rst b/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
index 6f81df92bc..3def4a138b 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ Details about QEMU's various subsystems including how to add features to them.
    s390-dasd-ipl
    tracing
    vfio-migration
+   vfio-iommufd
    writing-monitor-commands
    virtio-backends
diff --git a/docs/devel/vfio-iommufd.rst b/docs/devel/vfio-iommufd.rst
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+++ b/docs/devel/vfio-iommufd.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+===============================
+IOMMUFD BACKEND usage with VFIO
+===============================
+
+(Same meaning for backend/container/BE)
+
+With the introduction of iommufd, the Linux kernel provides a generic
+interface for user space drivers to propagate their DMA mappings to kernel
+for assigned devices. While the legacy kernel interface is group-centric,
+the new iommufd interface is device-centric, relying on device fd and iommufd.
+
+To support both interfaces in the QEMU VFIO device, introduce a base container
+to abstract the common part of VFIO legacy and iommufd container. So that the
+generic VFIO code can use either container.
+
+The base container implements generic functions such as memory_listener and
+address space management whereas the derived container implements callbacks
+specific to either legacy or iommufd. Each container has its own way to setup
+secure context and dma management interface. The below diagram shows how it
+looks like with both containers.
+
+::
+
+                      VFIO                           AddressSpace/Memory
+      +-------+  +----------+  +-----+  +-----+
+      |  pci  |  | platform |  |  ap |  | ccw |
+      +---+---+  +----+-----+  +--+--+  +--+--+     +----------------------+
+          |           |           |        |        |   AddressSpace       |
+          |           |           |        |        +------------+---------+
+      +---V-----------V-----------V--------V----+               /
+      |           VFIOAddressSpace              | <------------+
+      |                  |                      |  MemoryListener
+      |        VFIOContainerBase list           |
+      +-------+----------------------------+----+
+              |                            |
+              |                            |
+      +-------V------+            +--------V----------+
+      |   iommufd    |            |    vfio legacy    |
+      |  container   |            |     container     |
+      +-------+------+            +--------+----------+
+              |                            |
+              | /dev/iommu                 | /dev/vfio/vfio
+              | /dev/vfio/devices/vfioX    | /dev/vfio/$group_id
+  Userspace   |                            |
+  ============+============================+===========================
+  Kernel      |  device fd                 |
+              +---------------+            | group/container fd
+              | (BIND_IOMMUFD |            | (SET_CONTAINER/SET_IOMMU)
+              |  ATTACH_IOAS) |            | device fd
+              |               |            |
+              |       +-------V------------V-----------------+
+      iommufd |       |                vfio                  |
+  (map/unmap  |       +---------+--------------------+-------+
+  ioas_copy)  |                 |                    | map/unmap
+              |                 |                    |
+       +------V------+    +-----V------+      +------V--------+
+       | iommfd core |    |  device    |      |  vfio iommu   |
+       +-------------+    +------------+      +---------------+
+
+* Secure Context setup
+
+  - iommufd BE: uses device fd and iommufd to setup secure context
+    (bind_iommufd, attach_ioas)
+  - vfio legacy BE: uses group fd and container fd to setup secure context
+    (set_container, set_iommu)
+
+* Device access
+
+  - iommufd BE: device fd is opened through ``/dev/vfio/devices/vfioX``
+  - vfio legacy BE: device fd is retrieved from group fd ioctl
+
+* DMA Mapping flow
+
+  1. VFIOAddressSpace receives MemoryRegion add/del via MemoryListener
+  2. VFIO populates DMA map/unmap via the container BEs
+     * iommufd BE: uses iommufd
+     * vfio legacy BE: uses container fd
+
+Example configuration
+=====================
+
+Step 1: configure the host device
+---------------------------------
+
+It's exactly same as the VFIO device with legacy VFIO container.
+
+Step 2: configure QEMU
+----------------------
+
+Interactions with the ``/dev/iommu`` are abstracted by a new iommufd
+object (compiled in with the ``CONFIG_IOMMUFD`` option).
+
+Any QEMU device (e.g. VFIO device) wishing to use ``/dev/iommu`` must
+be linked with an iommufd object. It gets a new optional property
+named iommufd which allows to pass an iommufd object. Take ``vfio-pci``
+device for example:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    -object iommufd,id=iommufd0
+    -device vfio-pci,host=0000:02:00.0,iommufd=iommufd0
+
+Note the ``/dev/iommu`` and VFIO cdev can be externally opened by a
+management layer. In such a case the fd is passed, the fd supports a
+string naming the fd or a number, for example:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    -object iommufd,id=iommufd0,fd=22
+    -device vfio-pci,iommufd=iommufd0,fd=23
+
+If the ``fd`` property is not passed, the fd is opened by QEMU.
+
+If no ``iommufd`` object is passed to the ``vfio-pci`` device, iommufd
+is not used and the user gets the behavior based on the legacy VFIO
+container:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    -device vfio-pci,host=0000:02:00.0
+
+Supported platform
+==================
+
+Supports x86, ARM and s390x currently.
+
+Caveats
+=======
+
+Dirty page sync
+---------------
+
+Dirty page sync with iommufd backend is unsupported yet, live migration is
+disabled by default. But it can be force enabled like below, low efficient
+though.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    -object iommufd,id=iommufd0
+    -device vfio-pci,host=0000:02:00.0,iommufd=iommufd0,enable-migration=on
+
+P2P DMA
+-------
+
+PCI p2p DMA is unsupported as IOMMUFD doesn't support mapping hardware PCI
+BAR region yet. Below warning shows for assigned PCI device, it's not a bug.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+    qemu-system-x86_64: warning: IOMMU_IOAS_MAP failed: Bad address, PCI BAR?
+    qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_container_dma_map(0x560cb6cb1620, 0xe000000021000, 0x3000, 0x7f32ed55c000) = -14 (Bad address)
+
+FD passing with mdev
+--------------------
+
+``vfio-pci`` device checks sysfsdev property to decide if backend is a mdev.
+If FD passing is used, there is no way to know that and the mdev is treated
+like a real PCI device. There is an error as below if user wants to enable
+RAM discarding for mdev.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+    qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,iommufd=iommufd0,x-balloon-allowed=on,fd=9: vfio VFIO_FD9: x-balloon-allowed only potentially compatible with mdev devices
+
+``vfio-ap`` and ``vfio-ccw`` devices don't have same issue as their backend
+devices are always mdev and RAM discarding is force enabled.