VDUSE (vDPA Device in Userspace) is a framework to support
implementing software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace. This
document is intended to clarify the VDUSE design and usage.
Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+==================================
+VDUSE - "vDPA Device in Userspace"
+==================================
+
+vDPA (virtio data path acceleration) device is a device that uses a
+datapath which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor
+specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on
+the hardware or emulated by software. VDUSE is a framework that makes it
+possible to implement software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace. And
+to make the device emulation more secure, the emulated vDPA device's
+control path is handled in the kernel and only the data path is
+implemented in the userspace.
+
+Note that only virtio block device is supported by VDUSE framework now,
+which can reduce security risks when the userspace process that implements
+the data path is run by an unprivileged user. The support for other device
+types can be added after the security issue of corresponding device driver
+is clarified or fixed in the future.
+
+Start/Stop VDUSE devices
+------------------------
+
+VDUSE devices are started as follows:
+
+1. Create a new VDUSE instance with ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on
+ /dev/vduse/control.
+
+2. Setup each virtqueue with ioctl(VDUSE_VQ_SETUP) on /dev/vduse/$NAME.
+
+3. Begin processing VDUSE messages from /dev/vduse/$NAME. The first
+ messages will arrive while attaching the VDUSE instance to vDPA bus.
+
+4. Send the VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW netlink message to attach the VDUSE
+ instance to vDPA bus.
+
+VDUSE devices are stopped as follows:
+
+1. Send the VDPA_CMD_DEV_DEL netlink message to detach the VDUSE
+ instance from vDPA bus.
+
+2. Close the file descriptor referring to /dev/vduse/$NAME.
+
+3. Destroy the VDUSE instance with ioctl(VDUSE_DESTROY_DEV) on
+ /dev/vduse/control.
+
+The netlink messages can be sent via vdpa tool in iproute2 or use the
+below sample codes:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static int netlink_add_vduse(const char *name, enum vdpa_command cmd)
+ {
+ struct nl_sock *nlsock;
+ struct nl_msg *msg;
+ int famid;
+
+ nlsock = nl_socket_alloc();
+ if (!nlsock)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (genl_connect(nlsock))
+ goto free_sock;
+
+ famid = genl_ctrl_resolve(nlsock, VDPA_GENL_NAME);
+ if (famid < 0)
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ msg = nlmsg_alloc();
+ if (!msg)
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ if (!genlmsg_put(msg, NL_AUTO_PORT, NL_AUTO_SEQ, famid, 0, 0, cmd, 0))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+
+ NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NAME, name);
+ if (cmd == VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW)
+ NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_MGMTDEV_DEV_NAME, "vduse");
+
+ if (nl_send_sync(nlsock, msg))
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ nl_close(nlsock);
+ nl_socket_free(nlsock);
+
+ return 0;
+ nla_put_failure:
+ nlmsg_free(msg);
+ close_sock:
+ nl_close(nlsock);
+ free_sock:
+ nl_socket_free(nlsock);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+How VDUSE works
+---------------
+
+As mentioned above, a VDUSE device is created by ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on
+/dev/vduse/control. With this ioctl, userspace can specify some basic configuration
+such as device name (uniquely identify a VDUSE device), virtio features, virtio
+configuration space, bounce buffer size and so on for this emulated device. Then
+a char device interface (/dev/vduse/$NAME) is exported to userspace for device
+emulation. Userspace can use the VDUSE_VQ_SETUP ioctl on /dev/vduse/$NAME to
+add per-virtqueue configuration such as the max size of virtqueue to the device.
+
+After the initialization, the VDUSE device can be attached to vDPA bus via
+the VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW netlink message. Userspace needs to read()/write() on
+/dev/vduse/$NAME to receive/reply some control messages from/to VDUSE kernel
+module as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static int vduse_message_handler(int dev_fd)
+ {
+ int len;
+ struct vduse_dev_request req;
+ struct vduse_dev_response resp;
+
+ len = read(dev_fd, &req, sizeof(req));
+ if (len != sizeof(req))
+ return -1;
+
+ resp.request_id = req.request_id;
+
+ switch (req.type) {
+
+ /* handle different types of message */
+
+ }
+
+ len = write(dev_fd, &resp, sizeof(resp));
+ if (len != sizeof(resp))
+ return -1;
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+There are now three types of messages introduced by VDUSE framework:
+
+- VDUSE_GET_VQ_STATE: Get the state for virtqueue, userspace should return
+ avail index for split virtqueue or the device/driver ring wrap counters and
+ the avail and used index for packed virtqueue.
+
+- VDUSE_SET_STATUS: Set the device status, userspace should follow
+ the virtio spec: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/virtio-v1.1.html
+ to process this message. For example, fail to set the FEATURES_OK device
+ status bit if the device can not accept the negotiated virtio features
+ get from the VDUSE_GET_FEATURES ioctl.
+
+- VDUSE_UPDATE_IOTLB: Notify userspace to update the memory mapping for specified
+ IOVA range, userspace should firstly remove the old mapping, then setup the new
+ mapping via the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl.
+
+After DRIVER_OK status bit is set via the VDUSE_SET_STATUS message, userspace is
+able to start the dataplane processing with the help of below ioctls:
+
+- VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD: Find the first IOVA region that overlaps with the specified
+ range [start, last] and return the corresponding file descriptor. In vhost-vdpa
+ cases, it might be a full chunk of guest RAM. And in virtio-vdpa cases, it should
+ be the whole bounce buffer or the memory region that stores one virtqueue's
+ metadata (descriptor table, available ring and used ring). Userspace can access
+ this IOVA region by passing fd and corresponding size, offset, perm to mmap().
+ For example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static int perm_to_prot(uint8_t perm)
+ {
+ int prot = 0;
+
+ switch (perm) {
+ case VDUSE_ACCESS_WO:
+ prot |= PROT_WRITE;
+ break;
+ case VDUSE_ACCESS_RO:
+ prot |= PROT_READ;
+ break;
+ case VDUSE_ACCESS_RW:
+ prot |= PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return prot;
+ }
+
+ static void *iova_to_va(int dev_fd, uint64_t iova, uint64_t *len)
+ {
+ int fd;
+ void *addr;
+ size_t size;
+ struct vduse_iotlb_entry entry;
+
+ entry.start = iova;
+ entry.last = iova;
+ fd = ioctl(dev_fd, VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD, &entry);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ return NULL;
+
+ size = entry.last - entry.start + 1;
+ *len = entry.last - iova + 1;
+ addr = mmap(0, size, perm_to_prot(entry.perm), MAP_SHARED,
+ fd, entry.offset);
+ close(fd);
+ if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Using some data structures such as linked list to store
+ * the iotlb mapping. The munmap(2) should be called for the
+ * cached mapping when the corresponding VDUSE_UPDATE_IOTLB
+ * message is received or the device is reset.
+ */
+
+ return addr + iova - entry.start;
+ }
+
+- VDUSE_VQ_GET_INFO: Get the specified virtqueue's information including the size,
+ the IOVAs of descriptor table, available ring and used ring, the state
+ and the ready status. The IOVAs should be passed to the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl
+ so that userspace can access the descriptor table, available ring and used ring.
+
+- VDUSE_VQ_SETUP_KICKFD: Setup the kick eventfd for the specified virtqueues.
+ The kick eventfd is used by VDUSE kernel module to notify userspace to consume
+ the available ring.
+
+- VDUSE_INJECT_VQ_IRQ: Inject an interrupt for specific virtqueue. It's used to
+ notify virtio driver to consume the used ring.
+
+More details on the uAPI can be found in include/uapi/linux/vduse.h.
+
+MMU-based IOMMU Driver
+----------------------
+
+VDUSE framework implements an MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver to support
+mapping the kernel DMA buffer into the userspace IOVA region dynamically.
+This is mainly designed for virtio-vdpa case (kernel virtio drivers).
+
+The basic idea behind this driver is treating MMU (VA->PA) as IOMMU (IOVA->PA).
+The driver will set up MMU mapping instead of IOMMU mapping for the DMA transfer
+so that the userspace process is able to use its virtual address to access
+the DMA buffer in kernel.
+
+And to avoid security issue, a bounce-buffering mechanism is introduced to
+prevent userspace accessing the original buffer directly which may contain other
+kernel data. During the mapping, unmapping, the driver will copy the data from
+the original buffer to the bounce buffer and back, depending on the direction of
+the transfer. And the bounce-buffer addresses will be mapped into the user address
+space instead of the original one.
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