On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:42:26PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> When vfio passthroughs a PCI device of which MMIO BARs are
> smaller than PAGE_SIZE, guest will not handle the mmio
> accesses to the BARs which leads to mmio emulations in host.
>
> This is because vfio will not allow to passthrough one BAR's
> mmio page which may be shared with other BARs. Otherwise,
> there will be a backdoor that guest can use to access BARs
> of other guest.
>
> This patch adds a macro to set default alignment for all
> PCI devices. Then we could solve this issue on some platforms
> which would easily hit this issue because of their 64K page
> such as PowerNV platform by defining this macro as PAGE_SIZE.
Just to clarify, I think the issue happens on any arch, whenever
device BARs are smaller than PAGE_SIZE. This is obviously more
*likely* when PAGE_SIZE is large, but could still happen even with
4K pages.
> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h | 4 ++++
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h
> index e9bd6cf..5e31bc2 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
> #define PCIBIOS_MIN_IO 0x1000
> #define PCIBIOS_MIN_MEM 0x10000000
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV
> +#define PCIBIOS_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT PAGE_SIZE
> +#endif
> +
> struct pci_dev;
>
> /* Values for the `which' argument to sys_pciconfig_iobase syscall. */
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index d895be7..feae59e 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -4959,6 +4959,10 @@ static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev,
> resource_size_t align = 0;
> char *p;
>
> +#ifdef PCIBIOS_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT
> + align = PCIBIOS_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT;
> + *resize = false;
> +#endif
> spin_lock(&resource_alignment_lock);
> p = resource_alignment_param;
> if (pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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