On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM Duan, Zhenzhong
<zhenzhong.d...@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/virtio/vhost: Disable IOTLB callbacks when IOMMU gets
> >disabled
> >
> >Hi Jason,
> >
> >
> >On 1/23/25 2:34 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Jason,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 1/22/25 8:17 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com>
> >wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Jason,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 1/21/25 4:27 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com>
> >wrote:
> >>>>>>> When a guest exposed with a vhost device and protected by an
> >>>>>>> intel IOMMU gets rebooted, we sometimes observe a spurious warning:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Fail to lookup the translated address ffffe000
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> We observe that the IOMMU gets disabled through a write to the global
> >>>>>>> command register (CMAR_GCMD.TE) before the vhost device gets
> >stopped.
> >>>>>>> When this warning happens it can be observed an inflight IOTLB
> >>>>>>> miss occurs after the IOMMU disable and before the vhost stop. In
> >>>>>>> that case a flat translation occurs and the check in
> >>>>>>> vhost_memory_region_lookup() fails.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Let's disable the IOTLB callbacks when all IOMMU MRs have been
> >>>>>>> unregistered.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.au...@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>  hw/virtio/vhost.c | 4 ++++
> >>>>>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> >>>>>>> index 6aa72fd434..128c2ab094 100644
> >>>>>>> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> >>>>>>> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
> >>>>>>> @@ -931,6 +931,10 @@ static void
> >vhost_iommu_region_del(MemoryListener *listener,
> >>>>>>>              break;
> >>>>>>>          }
> >>>>>>>      }
> >>>>>>> +    if (QLIST_EMPTY(&dev->iommu_list) &&
> >>>>>>> +        dev->vhost_ops->vhost_set_iotlb_callback) {
> >>>>>>> +        dev->vhost_ops->vhost_set_iotlb_callback(dev, false);
> >>>>>>> +    }
> >>>>>> So the current code assumes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1) IOMMU is enabled before vhost starts
> >>>>>> 2) IOMMU is disabled after vhost stops
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This patch seems to fix 2) but not 1). Do we need to deal with the
> >>>>>> IOMMU enabled after vhost starts?
> >>>>> sorry I initially misunderstood the above comment. Indeed in the reboot
> >>>>> case assumption 2) happens to be wrong. However what I currently do is:
> >>>>> stop listening to iotlb miss requests from the kernel because my
> >>>>> understanding is those requests are just spurious ones, generate
> >>>>> warnings and we do not care since we are rebooting the system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However I do not claim this could handle the case where the IOMMU MR
> >>>>> would be turned off and then turned on. I think in that case we should
> >>>>> also flush the kernel IOTLB and this is not taken care of in this patch.
> >>>>> Is it a relevant use case?
> >>>> Not sure.
> >>>>
> >>>>> wrt removing assumption 1) and allow IOMMU enabled after vhost start. Is
> >>>>> that a valid use case as the virtio driver is using the dma api?
> >>>> It should not be but we can't assume the behaviour of the guest. It
> >>>> could be buggy or even malicious.
> >>> agreed
> >>>> Btw, we had the following codes while handling te:
> >>>>
> >>>> /* Handle Translation Enable/Disable */
> >>>> static void vtd_handle_gcmd_te(IntelIOMMUState *s, bool en)
> >>>> {
> >>>>     if (s->dmar_enabled == en) {
> >>>>         return;
> >>>>     }
> >>>>
> >>>>     trace_vtd_dmar_enable(en);
> >>>>
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>     vtd_reset_caches(s);
> >>>>     vtd_address_space_refresh_all(s);
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> vtd_address_space_refresh_all() will basically disable the iommu
> >>>> memory region. It looks not sufficient to trigger the region_del
> >>>> callback, maybe we should delete the region or introduce listener
> >>>> callback?
> >>> This is exactly the code path which is entered in my use case.
> >>>
> >>> vtd_address_space_refresh_all(s) induces the vhost_iommu_region_del. But
> >given the current implement of this latter the IOTLB callback is not unset 
> >and the
> >kernel IOTLB is not refreshed. Also as I pointed out the  hdev->mem->regions 
> >are
> >not updated? shouldn't they. Can you explain what they correspond to?
> >> Adding Peter for more ideas.
> >>
> >> I think it's better to find a way to trigger the listener here, probably:
> >>
> >> 1) add/delete the memory regions instead of enable/disable
> >sorry I don't understand what you mean. The vhost_iommu_region_del call
> >stack is provided below [1]. Write to the intel iommu GCMD TE bit
> >induces a call to vhost_iommu_region_del. This happens before the
> >vhost_dev_stop whose call stack is provided below [2] and originates
> >from a bus reset.
> >
> >We may have inflight IOTLB miss requests happening between both.
> >
> >If this happens, vhost_device_iotlb_miss() fails because the IOVA is not
> >translated anymore by the IOMMU and the iotlb.translated_addr returned
> >by address_space_get_iotlb_entry() is not within the registered
> >vhost_memory_regions looked up in vhost_memory_region_lookup(), hence
> >the "Fail to lookup the translated address" message.
> >
> >It sounds wrong that vhost keeps on using IOVAs that are not translated
> >anymore. It looks we have a reset ordering issue and this patch is just
> >removing the sympton and not the cause.
> >
> >At the moment I don't really get what is initiating the intel iommu TE
> >bit write. This is a guest action but is it initiated from a misordered
> >qemu event?
>
> During reboot, native_machine_shutdown() calls x86_platform.iommu_shutdown()
> to disable iommu before reset. So Peter's patch will not address your issue.
>
> Before iommu shutdown, device_shutdown() is called to shutdown all devices.
> Not clear why vhost is still active.

It might be because neither virtio bus nor virtio-net provides a
shutdown method.

There used to be requests to provide those to unbreak the kexec.

A quick try might be to provide a .driver.shutdown to
virtio_net_driver structure and reset the device there as a start.

Thanks

>
> Thanks
> Zhenzhong
>
> >
> >It could also relate to
> >[PATCH 0/4] intel_iommu: Reset vIOMMU after all the rest of devices
> >https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=s%3Aintel_iommu%3A+Reset+vIOMMU+after+all+
> >the+rest+of+devices
>


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