On 07/02/2013 08:07:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 03.07.2013, at 01:25, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> 8. Open Issues
>
> -how to handle cases where VFIO is requested to handle
> a device where the valid, mappable range for a region
> is less than a page size. See example above where an
> advertised region in the DMA node is 4 bytes. If exposed
> to a guest VM, the guest has to be able to map a full page
> of I/O space which opens a potential security issue.
The way we solved this for legacy PCI device assignment was by going
through QEMU for emulation and falling back to legacy read/write
IIRC. We could probably do the same here. IIRC there was a way for a
normal Linux mmap'ed device region to trap individual accesses too,
so we could just use that one too.
The slow path emulation would then happen magically in QEMU, since
MMIO writes will get reinjected into the normal QEMU MMIO handling
path which will just issue a read/write on the mmap'ed region if it's
not declared as emulated.
I agree that's what should happen by default, but there should be a way
for root to tell vfio that a device is allowed to overmap, in order to
get the performance benefit of direct access in cases where root knows
(or explicitly doesn't care) that it is safe.
-Scott
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