[Skiboot] [PATCH skiboot] npu2: Allow ATSD for LPAR other than 0

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Wed Dec 12 14:50:50 AEDT 2018


Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> writes:
> On 12/12/2018 11:31, Alistair Popple wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 December 2018 6:07:41 PM AEDT Stewart Smith wrote:
>>> Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> writes:
>>>> On 11/12/2018 13:53, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 3:52:22 PM AEDT Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>> Each XTS MMIO ATSD# register is accompanied by another register -
>>>>>> XTS MMIO ATSD0 LPARID# - which controls LPID filtering for ATSD
>>>>>> transactions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When a host system passes a GPU through to a guest, we need to enable
>>>>>> some ATSD for an LPAR. At the moment the host assigns one ATSD to
>>>>>> a NVLink bridge and this maps it to an LPAR when GPU is assigned to
>>>>>> the LPAR. The link number is used for an ATSD index.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ATSD6&7 stay mapped to the host (LPAR=0) all the time which seems to be
>>>>>> acceptable price for the simplicity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  include/npu2-regs.h |  2 ++
>>>>>>  hw/npu2.c           | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/include/npu2-regs.h b/include/npu2-regs.h
>>>>>> index 8273b2b..ae5e225 100644
>>>>>> --- a/include/npu2-regs.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/npu2-regs.h
>>>>>> @@ -547,6 +547,8 @@ void npu2_scom_write(uint64_t gcid, uint64_t
>>>>>> scom_base,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  #define NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD5_LPARID		NPU2_REG_OFFSET(NPU2_STACK_MISC,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NPU2_BLOCK_XTS, 0x128) #define
>>>>>> NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD6_LPARID		NPU2_REG_OFFSET(NPU2_STACK_MISC,
>>>>>> NPU2_BLOCK_XTS, 0x130) #define
>>>>>> NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD7_LPARID		NPU2_REG_OFFSET(NPU2_STACK_MISC,
>>>>>> NPU2_BLOCK_XTS, 0x138) +#define   NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD_MSR_HV		
>> PPC_BIT(51)
>>>>>> +#define   NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD_LPARID		PPC_BITMASK(52,63)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  #define NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP			NPU2_REG_OFFSET(NPU2_STACK_MISC,
>>>>>
>>>>> NPU2_BLOCK_XTS,
>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x4000) #define   NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_VALID		PPC_BIT(0)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  #define   NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_UNFILT		PPC_BIT(1)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/hw/npu2.c b/hw/npu2.c
>>>>>> index 41563b4..767306f 100644
>>>>>> --- a/hw/npu2.c
>>>>>> +++ b/hw/npu2.c
>>>>>> @@ -2255,9 +2255,14 @@ static int opal_npu_map_lpar(uint64_t phb_id,
>>>>>> uint64_t bdf, uint64_t lparid, struct phb *phb = pci_get_phb(phb_id);
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  	struct npu2 *p;
>>>>>>  	struct npu2_dev *ndev = NULL;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -	uint64_t xts_bdf_lpar, rc = OPAL_SUCCESS;
>>>>>> +	uint64_t xts_bdf_lpar, atsd_lpar, rc = OPAL_SUCCESS;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  	int i;
>>>>>>  	int id;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +	static uint64_t atsd_lpar_regs[] = {
>>>>>> +		NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD0_LPARID, NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD1_LPARID,
>>>>>> +		NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD2_LPARID, NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD3_LPARID,
>>>>>> +		NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD4_LPARID, NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD5_LPARID,
>>>>>> +		NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD6_LPARID, NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD7_LPARID };
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  	if (!phb || phb->phb_type != phb_type_npu_v2)
>>>>>>  	
>>>>>>  		return OPAL_PARAMETER;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @@ -2297,11 +2302,20 @@ static int opal_npu_map_lpar(uint64_t phb_id,
>>>>>> uint64_t bdf, uint64_t lparid, xts_bdf_lpar =
>>>>>> SETFIELD(NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_LPARID, xts_bdf_lpar, lparid); xts_bdf_lpar =
>>>>>> SETFIELD(NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_LPARSHORT, xts_bdf_lpar, id);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -	/* Need to find an NVLink to send the ATSDs for this device over */
>>>>>> +	/*
>>>>>> +	 * Need to find an NVLink to send the ATSDs for this device over.
>>>>>> +	 * Also, the host allocates an ATSD per NVLink, enable filtering now.
>>>>>> +	 */
>>>>>> +	atsd_lpar = SETFIELD(NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD_LPARID, 0, lparid);
>>>>>> +	if (!lparid)
>>>>>> +		atsd_lpar = SETFIELD(NPU2_XTS_MMIO_ATSD_MSR_HV, atsd_lpar, 1);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  	for (i = 0; i < p->total_devices; i++) {
>>>>>>  	
>>>>>>  		if (p->devices[i].nvlink.gpu_bdfn == bdf) {
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -			ndev = &p->devices[i];
>>>>>> -			break;
>>>>>> +			if (!ndev)
>>>>>> +				ndev = &p->devices[i];
>>>>>> +			if (i < ARRAY_SIZE(atsd_lpar_regs))
>>>>>> +				npu2_write(p, atsd_lpar_regs[i], atsd_lpar);
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure I really like this as ATSD resources should be allocated and
>>>>> passed through to guests by the hypervisor independently of the NVLink
>>>>> devices themselves, and a single ATSD register can serve more than one
>>>>> device.> 
>>>> Sure it can serve more, and all passed ATSDs are assembled in one vPHB
>>>> property and the guest then does not make distinction between them.  I
>>>> just pass maximum 6 of 8 ATSDs but until recently it was just a single
>>>> ATSD per PHB for all devices and yet nobody complained.
>>>>
>>>> The problem here is that I need to mmap() ATSD to QEMU, then map them to
>>>> KVM and then present this somehow via the device tree.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I can do mmap() on a fd such as a VFIO device fd or a IOMMU
>>>> container fd.  If I choose the dev fd, VFIO in QEMU can mmap it, store
>>>> the pointer in the QEMU PCI device, and SPAPR vPHB can put atsd property
>>>> in vPHB. If I choose the container fd, then VFIO in QEMU can mmap it but
>>>> SPAPR vPHB has no concept of IOMMU/VFIO groups/containers and I'd rather
>>>> leave like this.
>>>>
>>>>> This also creates an implicit assumption that the order of NVLink devices
>>>>> in p->devices[] matches ATSD register numbers in some way that the
>>>>> hypervisor assumes, which seems like it would be especially brittle as
>>>>> devices[] is essentially unordered.
>>>>
>>>> The order does not matter here, all that matters is that the order does
>>>> not change - any ATSD works with any NVLink bridge on that NPU PHB.
>>>>
>>>>> How does the hypervisor know which of the 8 ATSD registers has been
>>>>> assigned to the LPARID when calling opal_npu_map_lpar?
>>>>
>>>> One ATSD register is exposed to the userspace via mmap() on a
>>>> "corresponding" NVLink bridge VFIO device fd, register index == link
>>>> index. An NVLink device belongs to an IOMMU group. A KVM pointer (i.e.
>>>> LPID) is set to the IOMMU group from an ioctl() called by QEMU.
>> 
>> Right, but doesn't the hypervisor have to know which of the 8 ATSD registers 
>> to pass through to mmap to the guest? Only one of them gets mapped to the LPAR 
>> in opal_npu_map_lpar(), so how do you work out which one to mmap?
>
>
> You got me there :) It is "ibm,npu-link-index" in the hypervisor/vfio
> but nothing says the index from npu2::devices[index] is the same thing,
> I need this conversion here as "index" is not visible to the host system :-/
>
>
>
>> 
>>>>> It seems like you might need a
>>>>> seperate OPAL call for this along the lines of
>>>>> npu2_map_mmio_atsd(atsd_index, lparid).
>>>>
>>>> I do not see what it buys us. I need an allocator on the host or skiboot
>>>> anyway, either static or dynamic, dynamic seems excessive as the
>>>> devices[] order or the number of ATSDs do not change.
>>>
>>> So, of course I spot discussion after having hit the merge
>>> button[1]. Maybe I should care/look closer at all the NPU2 things?
>> 
>> I could of course review things in a more timely and consistent manner :-)
>> 
>>> (it'd help if there was a sane way to test things that I could plug into
>>> op-test)
>>>
>>> Any recommendation what I should do from here, is keeping the patch okay?
>> 
>> I thought it was ok but after re-reading the discussion I'm less convinced 
>> again.
>
> Yeah, Stewart needs to remove the patch for now.

No problem - reverted as of eb0226273239d806f404712aacc42961130c7079

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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