On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:14 +0100
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * David Gibson (david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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>
>
> Good, it's just too easy to forget them at the moment and get hopelessly
> confused.
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> > hw/core/machine.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
> > index b599b0ba65..2a723bf07b 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" },
> > @@ -1161,6 +1163,15 @@ 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");
What about non-transitional devices (eg. vhost-user-fs-pci) ? They don't know
about "disable-legacy" since they don't need it.
> > + object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform", "on");
> > }
> >
> > machine_class->init(machine);
> > --
> > 2.26.2
> >
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK
>
>
