On 05/16/2018 03:48 AM, Pierre Morel wrote:
On 15/05/2018 18:07, Tony Krowiak wrote:
On 05/15/2018 10:55 AM, Pierre Morel wrote:
On 07/05/2018 17:11, Tony Krowiak wrote:
Provides interfaces to manage the AP adapters, usage domains
and control domains assigned to a KVM guest.
The guest's SIE state description has a satellite structure called the
Crypto Control Block (CRYCB) containing three bitmask fields
identifying the adapters, queues (domains) and control domains
assigned to the KVM guest:
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This function (ap_validate_queue_sharing) only verifies that VM
don't share queues.
What about the queues used by a host application?
How can that be verified from this function? I suppose I could put a
check in here to
verify that the queues are reserved by the vfio_ap device driver, but
that would
be redundant because an AP queue can not be assigned to a mediated
matrix device
via its sysfs attributes unless it is reserved by the vfio_ap device
driver (see
patches 7, 8 and 9).
I understand that you want to implement these checks within KVM but
this is
related to which queue devices are bound to the matrix and which one
are not.
See my comments above and below about AP queue assignment to the
mediated matrix
device. The one verification we can't do when the devices are
assigned is whether
another guest is using the queue because assignment occurs before the
guest using
the queue is started in which case we have no access to KVM. It makes
no sense to
do so at assignment time anyway because it doesn't matter until the
guest using
the mediated matrix device is started, so that check is done in KVM.
I think that this should be related somehow to the bounded queue
devices and
therefor implemented inside the matrix driver.
As I stated above, when an AP queue is assigned to the mediated
matrix device via
its sysfs attributes, a check is done to verify that it is bound to
the vfio_ap
device driver (see patches 7, 8 and 9). If not, then assignment will
be rejected;
therefore, it will not be possible to configure a CRYCB with AP
queues that are
not bound to the device driver.
This patch and te followed patches take care that the queues are bound
to the
matrix driver when they are assigned to the matrix using the sysfs
entries.
But they do not take care that the queue can not be unbound before you
start
the guest, and they are not in the path if the admin decide to unbind
a queue
at some later time.
That is a good point. I need to put a check in the device driver at the time
the mediated device fd is opened to verify that the queues being
configured in
the guest's CRYCB are bound to the driver.
Regards,
Pierre
