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Userspace needs this feature flag to distinguish if vhost-vdpa iotlb in the kernel can be trusted to persist IOTLB mapping across vDPA reset. Without it, userspace has no way to tell apart if it's running on an older kernel, which could silently drop all iotlb mapping across vDPA reset, especially with broken parent driver implementation for the .reset driver op. The broken driver may incorrectly drop all mappings of its own as part of .reset, which inadvertently ends up with corrupted mapping state between vhost-vdpa userspace and the kernel. As a workaround, to make the mapping behaviour predictable across reset, userspace has to pro-actively remove all mappings before vDPA reset, and then restore all the mappings afterwards. This workaround is done unconditionally on top of all parent drivers today, due to the parent driver implementation issue and no means to differentiate. This workaround had been utilized in QEMU since day one when the corresponding vhost-vdpa userspace backend came to the world. There are 3 cases that backend may claim this feature bit on for: - parent device that has to work with platform IOMMU - parent device with on-chip IOMMU that has the expected .reset_map support in driver - parent device with vendor specific IOMMU implementation with persistent IOTLB mapping already that has to specifically declare this backend feature The reason why .reset_map is being one of the pre-condition for persistent iotlb is because without it, vhost-vdpa can't switch back iotlb to the initial state later on, especially for the on-chip IOMMU case which starts with identity mapping at device creation. virtio-vdpa requires on-chip IOMMU to perform 1:1 passthrough translation from PA to IOVA as-is to begin with, and .reset_map is the only means to turn back iotlb to the identity mapping mode after vhost-vdpa is gone. The difference in behavior did not matter as QEMU unmaps all the memory unregistering the memory listener at vhost_vdpa_dev_start( started = false), but the backend acknowledging this feature flag allows QEMU to make sure it is safe to skip this unmap & map in the case of vhost stop & start cycle. In that sense, this feature flag is actually a signal for userspace to know that the driver bug has been solved. Not offering it indicates that userspace cannot trust the kernel will retain the maps. Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com> Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1697880319-4937-4-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.