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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+=======
+IOMMUFD
+=======
+
+:Author: Jason Gunthorpe
+:Author: Kevin Tian
+
+Overview
+========
+
+IOMMUFD is the user API to control the IOMMU subsystem as it relates to managing
+IO page tables from userspace using file descriptors. It intends to be general
+and consumable by any driver that wants to expose DMA to userspace. These
+drivers are eventually expected to deprecate any internal IOMMU logic
+they may already/historically implement (e.g. vfio_iommu_type1.c).
+
+At minimum iommufd provides universal support of managing I/O address spaces and
+I/O page tables for all IOMMUs, with room in the design to add non-generic
+features to cater to specific hardware functionality.
+
+In this context the capital letter (IOMMUFD) refers to the subsystem while the
+small letter (iommufd) refers to the file descriptors created via /dev/iommu for
+use by userspace.
+
+Key Concepts
+============
+
+User Visible Objects
+--------------------
+
+Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace:
+
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_IOAS, representing an I/O address space (IOAS), allowing map/unmap
+ of user space memory into ranges of I/O Virtual Address (IOVA).
+
+ The IOAS is a functional replacement for the VFIO container, and like the VFIO
+ container it copies an IOVA map to a list of iommu_domains held within it.
+
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_DEVICE, representing a device that is bound to iommufd by an
+ external driver.
+
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE, representing an actual hardware I/O page table
+ (i.e. a single struct iommu_domain) managed by the iommu driver.
+
+ The IOAS has a list of HW_PAGETABLES that share the same IOVA mapping and
+ it will synchronize its mapping with each member HW_PAGETABLE.
+
+All user-visible objects are destroyed via the IOMMU_DESTROY uAPI.
+
+The diagram below shows relationship between user-visible objects and kernel
+datastructures (external to iommufd), with numbers referred to operations
+creating the objects and links::
+
+ _________________________________________________________
+ | iommufd |
+ | [1] |
+ | _________________ |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | [3] [2] |
+ | | | ____________ __________ |
+ | | IOAS |<--| |<------| | |
+ | | | |HW_PAGETABLE| | DEVICE | |
+ | | | |____________| |__________| |
+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | | |
+ | |_________________| | | |
+ | | | | |
+ |_________|___________________|___________________|_______|
+ | | |
+ | _____v______ _______v_____
+ | PFN storage | | | |
+ |------------>|iommu_domain| |struct device|
+ |____________| |_____________|
+
+1. IOMMUFD_OBJ_IOAS is created via the IOMMU_IOAS_ALLOC uAPI. An iommufd can
+ hold multiple IOAS objects. IOAS is the most generic object and does not
+ expose interfaces that are specific to single IOMMU drivers. All operations
+ on the IOAS must operate equally on each of the iommu_domains inside of it.
+
+2. IOMMUFD_OBJ_DEVICE is created when an external driver calls the IOMMUFD kAPI
+ to bind a device to an iommufd. The driver is expected to implement a set of
+ ioctls to allow userspace to initiate the binding operation. Successful
+ completion of this operation establishes the desired DMA ownership over the
+ device. The driver must also set the driver_managed_dma flag and must not
+ touch the device until this operation succeeds.
+
+3. IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE is created when an external driver calls the IOMMUFD
+ kAPI to attach a bound device to an IOAS. Similarly the external driver uAPI
+ allows userspace to initiate the attaching operation. If a compatible
+ pagetable already exists then it is reused for the attachment. Otherwise a
+ new pagetable object and iommu_domain is created. Successful completion of
+ this operation sets up the linkages among IOAS, device and iommu_domain. Once
+ this completes the device could do DMA.
+
+ Every iommu_domain inside the IOAS is also represented to userspace as a
+ HW_PAGETABLE object.
+
+ .. note::
+
+ Future IOMMUFD updates will provide an API to create and manipulate the
+ HW_PAGETABLE directly.
+
+A device can only bind to an iommufd due to DMA ownership claim and attach to at
+most one IOAS object (no support of PASID yet).
+
+Kernel Datastructure
+--------------------
+
+User visible objects are backed by following datastructures:
+
+- iommufd_ioas for IOMMUFD_OBJ_IOAS.
+- iommufd_device for IOMMUFD_OBJ_DEVICE.
+- iommufd_hw_pagetable for IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE.
+
+Several terminologies when looking at these datastructures:
+
+- Automatic domain - refers to an iommu domain created automatically when
+ attaching a device to an IOAS object. This is compatible to the semantics of
+ VFIO type1.
+
+- Manual domain - refers to an iommu domain designated by the user as the
+ target pagetable to be attached to by a device. Though currently there are
+ no uAPIs to directly create such domain, the datastructure and algorithms
+ are ready for handling that use case.
+
+- In-kernel user - refers to something like a VFIO mdev that is using the
+ IOMMUFD access interface to access the IOAS. This starts by creating an
+ iommufd_access object that is similar to the domain binding a physical device
+ would do. The access object will then allow converting IOVA ranges into struct
+ page * lists, or doing direct read/write to an IOVA.
+
+iommufd_ioas serves as the metadata datastructure to manage how IOVA ranges are
+mapped to memory pages, composed of:
+
+- struct io_pagetable holding the IOVA map
+- struct iopt_area's representing populated portions of IOVA
+- struct iopt_pages representing the storage of PFNs
+- struct iommu_domain representing the IO page table in the IOMMU
+- struct iopt_pages_access representing in-kernel users of PFNs
+- struct xarray pinned_pfns holding a list of pages pinned by in-kernel users
+
+Each iopt_pages represents a logical linear array of full PFNs. The PFNs are
+ultimately derived from userspace VAs via an mm_struct. Once they have been
+pinned the PFNs are stored in IOPTEs of an iommu_domain or inside the pinned_pfns
+xarray if they have been pinned through an iommufd_access.
+
+PFN have to be copied between all combinations of storage locations, depending
+on what domains are present and what kinds of in-kernel "software access" users
+exist. The mechanism ensures that a page is pinned only once.
+
+An io_pagetable is composed of iopt_areas pointing at iopt_pages, along with a
+list of iommu_domains that mirror the IOVA to PFN map.
+
+Multiple io_pagetable-s, through their iopt_area-s, can share a single
+iopt_pages which avoids multi-pinning and double accounting of page
+consumption.
+
+iommufd_ioas is sharable between subsystems, e.g. VFIO and VDPA, as long as
+devices managed by different subsystems are bound to a same iommufd.
+
+IOMMUFD User API
+================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h
+
+IOMMUFD Kernel API
+==================
+
+The IOMMUFD kAPI is device-centric with group-related tricks managed behind the
+scene. This allows the external drivers calling such kAPI to implement a simple
+device-centric uAPI for connecting its device to an iommufd, instead of
+explicitly imposing the group semantics in its uAPI as VFIO does.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iommu/iommufd/device.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c
+ :export:
+
+VFIO and IOMMUFD
+----------------
+
+Connecting a VFIO device to iommufd can be done in two ways.
+
+First is a VFIO compatible way by directly implementing the /dev/vfio/vfio
+container IOCTLs by mapping them into io_pagetable operations. Doing so allows
+the use of iommufd in legacy VFIO applications by symlinking /dev/vfio/vfio to
+/dev/iommufd or extending VFIO to SET_CONTAINER using an iommufd instead of a
+container fd.
+
+The second approach directly extends VFIO to support a new set of device-centric
+user API based on aforementioned IOMMUFD kernel API. It requires userspace
+change but better matches the IOMMUFD API semantics and easier to support new
+iommufd features when comparing it to the first approach.
+
+Currently both approaches are still work-in-progress.
+
+There are still a few gaps to be resolved to catch up with VFIO type1, as
+documented in iommufd_vfio_check_extension().
+
+Future TODOs
+============
+
+Currently IOMMUFD supports only kernel-managed I/O page table, similar to VFIO
+type1. New features on the radar include:
+
+ - Binding iommu_domain's to PASID/SSID
+ - Userspace page tables, for ARM, x86 and S390
+ - Kernel bypass'd invalidation of user page tables
+ - Re-use of the KVM page table in the IOMMU
+ - Dirty page tracking in the IOMMU
+ - Runtime Increase/Decrease of IOPTE size
+ - PRI support with faults resolved in userspace