[PATCH kernel v2 2/2] KVM: PPC: Check if IOMMU page is contained in the pinned physical page

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:18:20 +1000
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:57:02 +1000
> David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:51:21PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:  
> > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:12:41 +1000
> > > David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:59:26PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:    
> > > > > We already have a check in drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c that
> > > > > an IOMMU page is contained in the physical page so the PCI hardware won't
> > > > > get access to unassigned host memory.
> > > > > 
> > > > > However we do not have this check in KVM fastpath (H_PUT_TCE accelerated
> > > > > code) so the user space can pin memory backed with 64k pages and create
> > > > > a hardware TCE table with a bigger page size. We were lucky so far and
> > > > > did not hit this yet as the very first time the mapping happens
> > > > > we do not have tbl::it_userspace allocated yet and fall back to
> > > > > the userspace which in turn calls VFIO IOMMU driver and that fails
> > > > > because of the check in vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c which is really
> > > > > sustainable solution.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This stores the smallest preregistered page size in the preregistered
> > > > > region descriptor and changes the mm_iommu_xxx API to check this against
> > > > > the IOMMU page size.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Changes:
> > > > > v2:
> > > > > * explicitly check for compound pages before calling compound_order()
> > > > > 
> > > > > ---
> > > > > The bug is: run QEMU _without_ hugepages (no -mempath) and tell it to
> > > > > advertise 16MB pages to the guest; a typical pseries guest will use 16MB
> > > > > for IOMMU pages without checking the mmu pagesize and this will fail
> > > > > at https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=hw/vfio/common.c;h=fb396cf00ac40eb35967a04c9cc798ca896eed57;hb=refs/heads/master#l256
> > > > > 
> > > > > With the change, mapping will fail in KVM and the guest will print:
> > > > > 
> > > > > mlx5_core 0000:00:00.0: ibm,create-pe-dma-window(2027) 0 8000000 20000000 18 1f returned 0 (liobn = 0x80000001 starting addr = 8000000 0)
> > > > > mlx5_core 0000:00:00.0: created tce table LIOBN 0x80000001 for /pci at 800000020000000/ethernet at 0
> > > > > mlx5_core 0000:00:00.0: failed to map direct window for
> > > > > /pci at 800000020000000/ethernet at 0: -1      
> > > > 
> > > > [snip]    
> > > > > @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> > > > >  		struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t **pmem)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >  	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem;
> > > > > -	long i, j, ret = 0, locked_entries = 0;
> > > > > +	long i, j, ret = 0, locked_entries = 0, pageshift;
> > > > >  	struct page *page = NULL;
> > > > >  
> > > > >  	mutex_lock(&mem_list_mutex);
> > > > > @@ -166,6 +167,8 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> > > > >  		goto unlock_exit;
> > > > >  	}
> > > > >  
> > >  > > +	mem->pageshift = 30; /* start from 1G pages - the biggest we have */      
> > > > 
> > > > What about 16G pages on an HPT system?    
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Below in the loop mem->pageshift will reduce to the biggest actual size
> > > which will be 16mb/64k/4k. Or remain 1GB if no memory is actually
> > > pinned, no loss there.    
> > 
> > Are you saying that 16G IOMMU pages aren't supported?  Or that there's
> > some reason a guest can never use them?  
> 
> 
> ah, 16_G_, not _M_. My bad. I just never tried such huge pages, I will
> lift the limit up to 64 then, easier this way.


Ah, no, rather this as the upper limit:

mem->pageshift = ilog2(entries) + PAGE_SHIFT;


@entries here is a number of system pages being pinned in that
function.



> 
> >   
> > > > >  	for (i = 0; i < entries; ++i) {
> > > > >  		if (1 != get_user_pages_fast(ua + (i << PAGE_SHIFT),
> > > > >  					1/* pages */, 1/* iswrite */, &page)) {
> > > > > @@ -199,6 +202,11 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> > > > >  			}
> > > > >  		}
> > > > >  populate:
> > > > > +		pageshift = PAGE_SHIFT;
> > > > > +		if (PageCompound(page))
> > > > > +			pageshift += compound_order(compound_head(page));
> > > > > +		mem->pageshift = min_t(unsigned int, mem->pageshift, pageshift);      
> > > > 
> > > > Why not make mem->pageshift and pageshift local the same type to avoid
> > > > the min_t() ?    
> > > 
> > > I was under impression min() is deprecated (misinterpret checkpatch.pl
> > > may be) and therefore did not pay attention to it. I can fix this and
> > > repost if there is no other question.    
> > 
> > Hm, it's possible.  
> 
> Nah, tried min(), compiles fine.



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Alexey
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