[RFC PATCH v3 0/5] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs and MSI-X table on PPC64 platform

[Yongji Xie]

Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap
sub-page(size < PAGE_SIZE) MMIO BARs and MSI-X table. This is because
sub-page BARs' mmio page may be shared with other BARs and MSI-X table
should not be accessed directly from the guest for security reasons.

But these will easily cause some performance issues for mmio accesses
in guest when vfio passthrough sub-page BARs or BARs containing MSI-X
table on PPC64 platform. This is because PAGE_SIZE is 64KB by default
on PPC64 platform and the big page may easily hit the sub-page MMIO
BARs' unmmapping and cause the unmmaping of the mmio page which
MSI-X table locate in, which lead to mmio emulation in host.

For sub-page MMIO BARs' unmmapping, this patchset adds a kernel
parameter for PCI resource allocator to enforce the alignment of all
MMIO BARs to be at least PAGE_SZIE and make it enabled by default on
PPC64 platform so that sub-page BAR's mmio page will not be shared
with other BARs. Then we can mmap sub-page MMIO BARs in vfio-pci driver
with this parameter enabled.

For MSI-X table's unmmapping, we think MSI-X table is safe to access
directly from userspace if PCI host bridge support filtering of MSIs
which can ensure that a given pci device can only shoot the MSIs
assigned for it. So we add a pci_host_bridge attribute to indicate
if this PCI host bridge supports filtering of MSIs. Then we can mmap
MSI-X table with this attribute set.

With this patchset applied, we can get almost 100% improvement on
performance for mmio accesses when we passthrough sub-page BARs to guest
in our test.

The two vfio related patches(patch 2 and patch 5) are based on the
proposed patchset[1].

Changelog v3: 
- Rebase on new linux kernel mainline with the patchset[1] applied.
- Add a function to check whether PCI BARs'mmio page is shared with
  other BARs.
- Add a host bridge attribute to indicate PCI host bridge support
  filtering of MSIs.
- Use the new host bridge attribute to check if MSI-X table can
  be mmapped instead of CONFIG_EEH.
- Remove Kconfig option VFIO_PCI_MMAP_MSIX

Changelog v2:
- Rebase on v4.4-rc6 with the patchset[1] applied.
- Use kernel parameter to enforce all MMIO BARs to be page aligned
  on PCI core code instead of doing it on PPC64 arch code.
- Remove flags: VFIO_DEVICE_FLAGS_PCI_PAGE_ALIGNED
                VFIO_DEVICE_FLAGS_PCI_MSIX_MMAP
- Add a Kconfig option to support for mmapping MSI-X table.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/23/748

Yongji Xie (5):
  PCI: Add support for enforcing all MMIO BARs to be page aligned
  vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs if the mmio page is exclusive
  PCI: Add host bridge attribute to indicate filtering of MSIs is supported
  powerpc/powernv/pci-ioda: Enable msi_filtered bit for any IODA host bridge
  vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if host bridge supports filtering of MSIs

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt       |    5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h            |   11 +++++++++
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c |    6 +++++
 drivers/pci/host-bridge.c                 |    6 +++++
 drivers/pci/pci.c                         |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/pci/pci.h                         |    8 ++++++-
 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c               |   13 ++++++++---
 include/linux/pci.h                       |    7 ++++++
 8 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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