On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:06:02PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > The default behaviour for virtio devices is not to use the platforms normal
> > DMA paths, but instead to use the fact that it's running in a hypervisor
> > to directly access guest memory. That doesn't work if the guest's memory
> > is protected from hypervisor access, such as with AMD's SEV or POWER's PEF.
> >
> > So, if a host trust limitation mechanism is enabled, then apply the
> > iommu_platform=on option so it will go through normal DMA mechanisms.
> > Those will presumably have some way of marking memory as shared with the
> > hypervisor or hardware so that DMA will work.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > hw/core/machine.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
> > index a71792bc16..8dfc1bb3f8 100644
> > --- a/hw/core/machine.c
> > +++ b/hw/core/machine.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
> > #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
> > #include "migration/vmstate.h"
> > #include "exec/host-trust-limitation.h"
> > +#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
> > +#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
> >
> > GlobalProperty hw_compat_5_0[] = {
> > { "virtio-balloon-device", "page-poison", "false" },
> > @@ -1165,6 +1167,15 @@ void machine_run_board_init(MachineState *machine)
> > * areas.
> > */
> > machine_set_mem_merge(OBJECT(machine), false, &error_abort);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Virtio devices can't count on directly accessing guest
> > + * memory, so they need iommu_platform=on to use normal DMA
> > + * mechanisms. That requires disabling legacy virtio support
> > + * for virtio pci devices
> > + */
> > + object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy", "on");
> > + object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", "on");
> > }
>
> Silently changing the user's request configuration like this
It doesn't, though. register_sugar_prop() effectively registers a
default, so if the user has explicitly specified something, that will
take precedence.
> is a bad idea.
> The "disable-legacy" option in particular is undesirable as that switches
> the device to virtio-1.0 only mode, which exposes a different PCI ID to
> the guest.
>
> If some options are incompatible with encryption, then we should raise a
> fatal error at startup, so applications/admins are aware that their requested
> config is broken.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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