Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] docs: x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
Hi, Baolu, On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 08:17:40PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote: > Hi Fenghua, > > On 2020/6/13 8:41, Fenghua Yu wrote: > >+implement implement fairness or ensure forward progress can be made. > > Repeated "implement". Will fix this. > >+For example, the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) uses > >+intel_svm_bind_mm(), which will do the following. > > The Intel SVM APIs have been deprecated. Drivers should use > iommu_sva_bind_device() instead. Please also update other places in > this document. Will fix this. Thanks. -Fenghua ___ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] docs: x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
Hi Fenghua, On 2020/6/13 8:41, Fenghua Yu wrote: From: Ashok Raj ENQCMD and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) and all of their associated features are a complicated stack with lots of interconnected pieces. This documentation provides a big picture overview for all of the features. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Reviewed-by: Tony Luck --- v2: - Fix the doc format and add the doc in toctree (Thomas) - Modify the doc for better description (Thomas, Tony, Dave) Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/x86/sva.rst | 287 2 files changed, 288 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/sva.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index 265d9e9a093b..e5d5ff096685 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation usb-legacy-support i386/index x86_64/index + sva diff --git a/Documentation/x86/sva.rst b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst new file mode 100644 index ..1e52208c7dda --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst @@ -0,0 +1,287 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=== +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) with ENQCMD +=== + +Background +== + +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) allows the processor and device to use the +same virtual addresses avoiding the need for software to translate virtual +addresses to physical addresses. SVA is what PCIe calls Shared Virtual +Memory (SVM) + +In addition to the convenience of using application virtual addresses +by the device, it also doesn't require pinning pages for DMA. +PCIe Address Translation Services (ATS) along with Page Request Interface +(PRI) allow devices to function much the same way as the CPU handling +application page-faults. For more information please refer to PCIe +specification Chapter 10: ATS Specification. + +Use of SVA requires IOMMU support in the platform. IOMMU also is required +to support PCIe features ATS and PRI. ATS allows devices to cache +translations for the virtual address. IOMMU driver uses the mmu_notifier() +support to keep the device tlb cache and the CPU cache in sync. PRI allows +the device to request paging the virtual address before using if they are +not paged in the CPU page tables. + + +Shared Hardware Workqueues +== + +Unlike Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV), Scalable IOV (SIOV) permits +the use of Shared Work Queues (SWQ) by both applications and Virtual +Machines (VM's). This allows better hardware utilization vs. hard +partitioning resources that could result in under utilization. In order to +allow the hardware to distinguish the context for which work is being +executed in the hardware by SWQ interface, SIOV uses Process Address Space +ID (PASID), which is a 20bit number defined by the PCIe SIG. + +PASID value is encoded in all transactions from the device. This allows the +IOMMU to track I/O on a per-PASID granularity in addition to using the PCIe +Resource Identifier (RID) which is the Bus/Device/Function. + + +ENQCMD +== + +ENQCMD is a new instruction on Intel platforms that atomically submits a +work descriptor to a device. The descriptor includes the operation to be +performed, virtual addresses of all parameters, virtual address of a completion +record, and the PASID (process address space ID) of the current process. + +ENQCMD works with non-posted semantics and carries a status back if the +command was accepted by hardware. This allows the submitter to know if the +submission needs to be retried or other device specific mechanisms to +implement implement fairness or ensure forward progress can be made. Repeated "implement". + +ENQCMD is the glue that ensures applications can directly submit commands +to the hardware and also permit hardware to be aware of application context +to perform I/O operations via use of PASID. + +Process Address Space Tagging += + +A new thread scoped MSR (IA32_PASID) provides the connection between +user processes and the rest of the hardware. When an application first +accesses an SVA capable device this MSR is initialized with a newly +allocated PASID. The driver for the device calls an IOMMU specific api +that sets up the routing for DMA and page-requests. + +For example, the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) uses +intel_svm_bind_mm(), which will do the following. The Intel SVM APIs have been deprecated. Drivers should use iommu_sva_bind_device() instead. Please also update other places in this document. + +- Allocate the PASID, and program the process page-table (cr3) in the PASID + context entries. +- Register for mmu_notifier() to track any page-table invalidations to keep + the device tlb in sync. For example, when a page-table entry is invalidated, + IOMMU propagates the
[PATCH v2 04/12] docs: x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
From: Ashok Raj ENQCMD and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) and all of their associated features are a complicated stack with lots of interconnected pieces. This documentation provides a big picture overview for all of the features. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Reviewed-by: Tony Luck --- v2: - Fix the doc format and add the doc in toctree (Thomas) - Modify the doc for better description (Thomas, Tony, Dave) Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/x86/sva.rst | 287 2 files changed, 288 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/sva.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index 265d9e9a093b..e5d5ff096685 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation usb-legacy-support i386/index x86_64/index + sva diff --git a/Documentation/x86/sva.rst b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst new file mode 100644 index ..1e52208c7dda --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst @@ -0,0 +1,287 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=== +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) with ENQCMD +=== + +Background +== + +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) allows the processor and device to use the +same virtual addresses avoiding the need for software to translate virtual +addresses to physical addresses. SVA is what PCIe calls Shared Virtual +Memory (SVM) + +In addition to the convenience of using application virtual addresses +by the device, it also doesn't require pinning pages for DMA. +PCIe Address Translation Services (ATS) along with Page Request Interface +(PRI) allow devices to function much the same way as the CPU handling +application page-faults. For more information please refer to PCIe +specification Chapter 10: ATS Specification. + +Use of SVA requires IOMMU support in the platform. IOMMU also is required +to support PCIe features ATS and PRI. ATS allows devices to cache +translations for the virtual address. IOMMU driver uses the mmu_notifier() +support to keep the device tlb cache and the CPU cache in sync. PRI allows +the device to request paging the virtual address before using if they are +not paged in the CPU page tables. + + +Shared Hardware Workqueues +== + +Unlike Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV), Scalable IOV (SIOV) permits +the use of Shared Work Queues (SWQ) by both applications and Virtual +Machines (VM's). This allows better hardware utilization vs. hard +partitioning resources that could result in under utilization. In order to +allow the hardware to distinguish the context for which work is being +executed in the hardware by SWQ interface, SIOV uses Process Address Space +ID (PASID), which is a 20bit number defined by the PCIe SIG. + +PASID value is encoded in all transactions from the device. This allows the +IOMMU to track I/O on a per-PASID granularity in addition to using the PCIe +Resource Identifier (RID) which is the Bus/Device/Function. + + +ENQCMD +== + +ENQCMD is a new instruction on Intel platforms that atomically submits a +work descriptor to a device. The descriptor includes the operation to be +performed, virtual addresses of all parameters, virtual address of a completion +record, and the PASID (process address space ID) of the current process. + +ENQCMD works with non-posted semantics and carries a status back if the +command was accepted by hardware. This allows the submitter to know if the +submission needs to be retried or other device specific mechanisms to +implement implement fairness or ensure forward progress can be made. + +ENQCMD is the glue that ensures applications can directly submit commands +to the hardware and also permit hardware to be aware of application context +to perform I/O operations via use of PASID. + +Process Address Space Tagging += + +A new thread scoped MSR (IA32_PASID) provides the connection between +user processes and the rest of the hardware. When an application first +accesses an SVA capable device this MSR is initialized with a newly +allocated PASID. The driver for the device calls an IOMMU specific api +that sets up the routing for DMA and page-requests. + +For example, the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) uses +intel_svm_bind_mm(), which will do the following. + +- Allocate the PASID, and program the process page-table (cr3) in the PASID + context entries. +- Register for mmu_notifier() to track any page-table invalidations to keep + the device tlb in sync. For example, when a page-table entry is invalidated, + IOMMU propagates the invalidation to device tlb. This will force any + future access by the device to this virtual address to participate in + ATS. If the IOMMU responds with proper response that a page is not + present, the device would request the
