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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>,
	 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Lei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	 Jonah Palmer <jonah.palmer@oracle.com>,
	Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Identify aliased maps in vdpa SVQ iova_tree
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 10:29:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACGkMEu328ksfMDtJheH+sdTdV4E=pJFEa5Zco2_ecskubCAGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJaqyWdoCYFEEQdwZiCxzaX6HuJE-0QWctJ4WBnOd97zDwbPnw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:57 PM Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:29 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM Eugenio Perez Martin
> > <eperezma@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 8:47 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:03 PM Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The guest may have overlapped memory regions, where different GPA leads
> > > > > to the same HVA.  This causes a problem when overlapped regions
> > > > > (different GPA but same translated HVA) exists in the tree, as looking
> > > > > them by HVA will return them twice.
> > > >
> > > > I think I don't understand if there's any side effect for shadow virtqueue?
> > > >
> > >
> > > My bad, I totally forgot to put a reference to where this comes from.
> > >
> > > Si-Wei found that during initialization this sequences of maps /
> > > unmaps happens [1]:
> > >
> > > HVA                    GPA                IOVA
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Map
> > > [0x7f7903e00000, 0x7f7983e00000)    [0x0, 0x80000000) [0x1000, 0x80000000)
> > > [0x7f7983e00000, 0x7f9903e00000)    [0x100000000, 0x2080000000)
> > > [0x80001000, 0x2000001000)
> > > [0x7f7903ea0000, 0x7f7903ec0000)    [0xfeda0000, 0xfedc0000)
> > > [0x2000001000, 0x2000021000)
> > >
> > > Unmap
> > > [0x7f7903ea0000, 0x7f7903ec0000)    [0xfeda0000, 0xfedc0000) [0x1000,
> > > 0x20000) ???
> > >
> > > The third HVA range is contained in the first one, but exposed under a
> > > different GVA (aliased). This is not "flattened" by QEMU, as GPA does
> > > not overlap, only HVA.
> > >
> > > At the third chunk unmap, the current algorithm finds the first chunk,
> > > not the second one. This series is the way to tell the difference at
> > > unmap time.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-04/msg00079.html
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Ok, I was wondering if we need to store GPA(GIOVA) to HVA mappings in
> > the iova tree to solve this issue completely. Then there won't be
> > aliasing issues.
> >
>
> I'm ok to explore that route but this has another problem. Both SVQ
> vrings and CVQ buffers also need to be addressable by VhostIOVATree,
> and they do not have GPA.
>
> At this moment vhost_svq_translate_addr is able to handle this
> transparently as we translate vaddr to SVQ IOVA. How can we store
> these new entries? Maybe a (hwaddr)-1 GPA to signal it has no GPA and
> then a list to go through other entries (SVQ vaddr and CVQ buffers).

This seems to be tricky.

As discussed, it could be another iova tree.

Thanks

>
> Thanks!
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > To solve this, track GPA in the DMA entry that acs as unique identifiers
> > > > > to the maps.  When the map needs to be removed, iova tree is able to
> > > > > find the right one.
> > > > >
> > > > > Users that does not go to this extra layer of indirection can use the
> > > > > iova tree as usual, with id = 0.
> > > > >
> > > > > This was found by Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>, but I'm having a hard
> > > > > time to reproduce the issue.  This has been tested only without overlapping
> > > > > maps.  If it works with overlapping maps, it will be intergrated in the main
> > > > > series.
> > > > >
> > > > > Comments are welcome.  Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Eugenio Pérez (2):
> > > > >   iova_tree: add an id member to DMAMap
> > > > >   vdpa: identify aliased maps in iova_tree
> > > > >
> > > > >  hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c   | 2 ++
> > > > >  include/qemu/iova-tree.h | 5 +++--
> > > > >  util/iova-tree.c         | 3 ++-
> > > > >  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.44.0
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>



  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-08  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-10 10:03 [RFC 0/2] Identify aliased maps in vdpa SVQ iova_tree Eugenio Pérez
2024-04-10 10:03 ` [RFC 1/2] iova_tree: add an id member to DMAMap Eugenio Pérez
2024-04-18 20:46   ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-19  8:29     ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-19 23:49       ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-22  8:49         ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-23 22:20           ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-24  7:33             ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-25 17:43               ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-29  8:14                 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-29 11:19                   ` Jonah Palmer
2024-04-30 18:11                     ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-01 22:08                       ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-05-02  6:18                         ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-07  9:12                           ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-30  5:54                   ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-04-30 17:19                     ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-01 23:13                       ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-05-02  6:44                         ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-08  0:52                           ` Si-Wei Liu
2024-05-08 15:25                             ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-10 10:03 ` [RFC 2/2] vdpa: identify aliased maps in iova_tree Eugenio Pérez
2024-04-12  6:46 ` [RFC 0/2] Identify aliased maps in vdpa SVQ iova_tree Jason Wang
2024-04-12  7:56   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-07  7:29     ` Jason Wang
2024-05-07 10:56       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-08  2:29         ` Jason Wang [this message]
2024-05-08 17:15           ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-09  6:27             ` Jason Wang
2024-05-09  7:10               ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-10  4:28                 ` Jason Wang
2024-05-10  7:16                   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-11  4:00                     ` Jason Wang
2024-05-13  6:27                       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-13  8:28                         ` Jason Wang
2024-05-13  9:56                           ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-14  3:56                             ` Jason Wang

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