On 10/30/2017 04:57 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
adding qemu devel and add Daniel and Erik from libvirt to keep them in the loop.
On 10/29/2017 12:11 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:38:45 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tony Krowiak (19):
KVM: s390: SIE considerations for AP Queue virtualization
KVM: s390: refactor crypto initialization
s390/zcrypt: new AP matrix bus
s390/zcrypt: create an AP matrix device on the AP matrix bus
s390/zcrypt: base implementation of AP matrix device driver
s390/zcrypt: register matrix device with VFIO mediated device
framework
KVM: s390: introduce AP matrix configuration interface
s390/zcrypt: support for assigning adapters to matrix mdev
s390/zcrypt: validate adapter assignment
s390/zcrypt: sysfs interfaces supporting AP domain assignment
s390/zcrypt: validate domain assignment
s390/zcrypt: sysfs support for control domain assignment
s390/zcrypt: validate control domain assignment
KVM: s390: Connect the AP mediated matrix device to KVM
s390/zcrypt: introduce ioctl access to VFIO AP Matrix driver
KVM: s390: interface to configure KVM guest's AP matrix
KVM: s390: validate input to AP matrix config interface
KVM: s390: New ioctl to configure KVM guest's AP matrix
s390/facilities: enable AP facilities needed by guest
I'll try to summarize all of this in my own words, both to make sure I
understand the design correctly and to give others a different view on
this.
[I'm completely disregarding control domains here.]
On s390, we have cryptographic coprocessor cards, which are modeled on
Linux as devices on the AP bus. There's also a concept called domains,
which means an individual queue of a crypto device is basically a
(card,domain) tuple. We model this something like the following
(assuming we have access to cards 3 and 4 and domains 1 and 2):
AP -> card3 -> queue (3,1)
-> queue (3,2)
-> card4 -> queue (4,1)
-> queue (4,2)
(The AP bus is a bit different for backwards compat.)
If we want to virtualize this, we can use a feature provided by the
hardware. We basically attach a satellite control block to our main
hardware virtualization control block and the hardware takes care of
(mostly) everything.
For this control block, we don't specify explicit tuples, but a list of
cards and a list of domains. The guest will get access to the cross
product.
Because of this, we need to take care that the lists provided to
different guests don't overlap; i.e., we need to enforce sane
configurations. Otherwise, one guest may get access to things like
secret keys for another guest.
The idea of this patch set is to introduce a new device, the matrix
device. This matrix device hangs off a different root and acts as the
node where mdev devices hang off.
If you now want to give the tuples (4,1) and (4,2), you need to do the
following:
- Unbind the (4,1) and (4,2) tuples from their ap bus driver.
- Bind the (4,1) and (4,2) tuples to the ap matrix driver.
- Create the mediated device.
- Assign card 4 and domains 1 and 2.
QEMU will now simply consume the mediated device and things should work.
This is probably the shortest possible summary I can imagine.
Tony can you double check if it matches your understanding as well?
This is a concise and accurate summary.
