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+=====================
+VFIO Mediated devices
+=====================
+
+:Copyright: |copy| 2016, NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
+:Author: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
+:Author: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+
+Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) Mediated devices[1]
+===============================================
+
+The number of use cases for virtualizing DMA devices that do not have built-in
+SR_IOV capability is increasing. Previously, to virtualize such devices,
+developers had to create their own management interfaces and APIs, and then
+integrate them with user space software. To simplify integration with user space
+software, we have identified common requirements and a unified management
+interface for such devices.
+
+The VFIO driver framework provides unified APIs for direct device access. It is
+an IOMMU/device-agnostic framework for exposing direct device access to user
+space in a secure, IOMMU-protected environment. This framework is used for
+multiple devices, such as GPUs, network adapters, and compute accelerators. With
+direct device access, virtual machines or user space applications have direct
+access to the physical device. This framework is reused for mediated devices.
+
+The mediated core driver provides a common interface for mediated device
+management that can be used by drivers of different devices. This module
+provides a generic interface to perform these operations:
+
+* Create and destroy a mediated device
+* Add a mediated device to and remove it from a mediated bus driver
+* Add a mediated device to and remove it from an IOMMU group
+
+The mediated core driver also provides an interface to register a bus driver.
+For example, the mediated VFIO mdev driver is designed for mediated devices and
+supports VFIO APIs. The mediated bus driver adds a mediated device to and
+removes it from a VFIO group.
+
+The following high-level block diagram shows the main components and interfaces
+in the VFIO mediated driver framework. The diagram shows NVIDIA, Intel, and IBM
+devices as examples, as these devices are the first devices to use this module::
+
+ +---------------+
+ | |
+ | +-----------+ | mdev_register_driver() +--------------+
+ | | | +<------------------------+ |
+ | | mdev | | | |
+ | | bus | +------------------------>+ vfio_mdev.ko |<-> VFIO user
+ | | driver | | probe()/remove() | | APIs
+ | | | | +--------------+
+ | +-----------+ |
+ | |
+ | MDEV CORE |
+ | MODULE |
+ | mdev.ko |
+ | +-----------+ | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
+ | | | +<------------------------+ |
+ | | | | | nvidia.ko |<-> physical
+ | | | +------------------------>+ | device
+ | | | | callbacks +--------------+
+ | | Physical | |
+ | | device | | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
+ | | interface | |<------------------------+ |
+ | | | | | i915.ko |<-> physical
+ | | | +------------------------>+ | device
+ | | | | callbacks +--------------+
+ | | | |
+ | | | | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
+ | | | +<------------------------+ |
+ | | | | | ccw_device.ko|<-> physical
+ | | | +------------------------>+ | device
+ | | | | callbacks +--------------+
+ | +-----------+ |
+ +---------------+
+
+
+Registration Interfaces
+=======================
+
+The mediated core driver provides the following types of registration
+interfaces:
+
+* Registration interface for a mediated bus driver
+* Physical device driver interface
+
+Registration Interface for a Mediated Bus Driver
+------------------------------------------------
+
+The registration interface for a mediated bus driver provides the following
+structure to represent a mediated device's driver::
+
+ /*
+ * struct mdev_driver [2] - Mediated device's driver
+ * @name: driver name
+ * @probe: called when new device created
+ * @remove: called when device removed
+ * @driver: device driver structure
+ */
+ struct mdev_driver {
+ const char *name;
+ int (*probe) (struct device *dev);
+ void (*remove) (struct device *dev);
+ struct device_driver driver;
+ };
+
+A mediated bus driver for mdev should use this structure in the function calls
+to register and unregister itself with the core driver:
+
+* Register::
+
+ extern int mdev_register_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv,
+ struct module *owner);
+
+* Unregister::
+
+ extern void mdev_unregister_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv);
+
+The mediated bus driver is responsible for adding mediated devices to the VFIO
+group when devices are bound to the driver and removing mediated devices from
+the VFIO when devices are unbound from the driver.
+
+
+Physical Device Driver Interface
+--------------------------------
+
+The physical device driver interface provides the mdev_parent_ops[3] structure
+to define the APIs to manage work in the mediated core driver that is related
+to the physical device.
+
+The structures in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows:
+
+* dev_attr_groups: attributes of the parent device
+* mdev_attr_groups: attributes of the mediated device
+* supported_config: attributes to define supported configurations
+
+The functions in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows:
+
+* create: allocate basic resources in a driver for a mediated device
+* remove: free resources in a driver when a mediated device is destroyed
+
+(Note that mdev-core provides no implicit serialization of create/remove
+callbacks per mdev parent device, per mdev type, or any other categorization.
+Vendor drivers are expected to be fully asynchronous in this respect or
+provide their own internal resource protection.)
+
+The callbacks in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows:
+
+* open: open callback of mediated device
+* close: close callback of mediated device
+* ioctl: ioctl callback of mediated device
+* read : read emulation callback
+* write: write emulation callback
+* mmap: mmap emulation callback
+
+A driver should use the mdev_parent_ops structure in the function call to
+register itself with the mdev core driver::
+
+ extern int mdev_register_device(struct device *dev,
+ const struct mdev_parent_ops *ops);
+
+However, the mdev_parent_ops structure is not required in the function call
+that a driver should use to unregister itself with the mdev core driver::
+
+ extern void mdev_unregister_device(struct device *dev);
+
+
+Mediated Device Management Interface Through sysfs
+==================================================
+
+The management interface through sysfs enables user space software, such as
+libvirt, to query and configure mediated devices in a hardware-agnostic fashion.
+This management interface provides flexibility to the underlying physical
+device's driver to support features such as:
+
+* Mediated device hot plug
+* Multiple mediated devices in a single virtual machine
+* Multiple mediated devices from different physical devices
+
+Links in the mdev_bus Class Directory
+-------------------------------------
+The /sys/class/mdev_bus/ directory contains links to devices that are registered
+with the mdev core driver.
+
+Directories and files under the sysfs for Each Physical Device
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+::
+
+ |- [parent physical device]
+ |--- Vendor-specific-attributes [optional]
+ |--- [mdev_supported_types]
+ | |--- [<type-id>]
+ | | |--- create
+ | | |--- name
+ | | |--- available_instances
+ | | |--- device_api
+ | | |--- description
+ | | |--- [devices]
+ | |--- [<type-id>]
+ | | |--- create
+ | | |--- name
+ | | |--- available_instances
+ | | |--- device_api
+ | | |--- description
+ | | |--- [devices]
+ | |--- [<type-id>]
+ | |--- create
+ | |--- name
+ | |--- available_instances
+ | |--- device_api
+ | |--- description
+ | |--- [devices]
+
+* [mdev_supported_types]
+
+ The list of currently supported mediated device types and their details.
+
+ [<type-id>], device_api, and available_instances are mandatory attributes
+ that should be provided by vendor driver.
+
+* [<type-id>]
+
+ The [<type-id>] name is created by adding the device driver string as a prefix
+ to the string provided by the vendor driver. This format of this name is as
+ follows::
+
+ sprintf(buf, "%s-%s", dev_driver_string(parent->dev), group->name);
+
+ (or using mdev_parent_dev(mdev) to arrive at the parent device outside
+ of the core mdev code)
+
+* device_api
+
+ This attribute should show which device API is being created, for example,
+ "vfio-pci" for a PCI device.
+
+* available_instances
+
+ This attribute should show the number of devices of type <type-id> that can be
+ created.
+
+* [device]
+
+ This directory contains links to the devices of type <type-id> that have been
+ created.
+
+* name
+
+ This attribute should show human readable name. This is optional attribute.
+
+* description
+
+ This attribute should show brief features/description of the type. This is
+ optional attribute.
+
+Directories and Files Under the sysfs for Each mdev Device
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+::
+
+ |- [parent phy device]
+ |--- [$MDEV_UUID]
+ |--- remove
+ |--- mdev_type {link to its type}
+ |--- vendor-specific-attributes [optional]
+
+* remove (write only)
+
+Writing '1' to the 'remove' file destroys the mdev device. The vendor driver can
+fail the remove() callback if that device is active and the vendor driver
+doesn't support hot unplug.
+
+Example::
+
+ # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/$mdev_UUID/remove
+
+Mediated device Hot plug
+------------------------
+
+Mediated devices can be created and assigned at runtime. The procedure to hot
+plug a mediated device is the same as the procedure to hot plug a PCI device.
+
+Translation APIs for Mediated Devices
+=====================================
+
+The following APIs are provided for translating user pfn to host pfn in a VFIO
+driver::
+
+ extern int vfio_pin_pages(struct device *dev, unsigned long *user_pfn,
+ int npage, int prot, unsigned long *phys_pfn);
+
+ extern int vfio_unpin_pages(struct device *dev, unsigned long *user_pfn,
+ int npage);
+
+These functions call back into the back-end IOMMU module by using the pin_pages
+and unpin_pages callbacks of the struct vfio_iommu_driver_ops[4]. Currently
+these callbacks are supported in the TYPE1 IOMMU module. To enable them for
+other IOMMU backend modules, such as PPC64 sPAPR module, they need to provide
+these two callback functions.
+
+Using the Sample Code
+=====================
+
+mtty.c in samples/vfio-mdev/ directory is a sample driver program to
+demonstrate how to use the mediated device framework.
+
+The sample driver creates an mdev device that simulates a serial port over a PCI
+card.
+
+1. Build and load the mtty.ko module.
+
+ This step creates a dummy device, /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+
+ Files in this device directory in sysfs are similar to the following::
+
+ # tree /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+ /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+ |-- mdev_supported_types
+ | |-- mtty-1
+ | | |-- available_instances
+ | | |-- create
+ | | |-- device_api
+ | | |-- devices
+ | | `-- name
+ | `-- mtty-2
+ | |-- available_instances
+ | |-- create
+ | |-- device_api
+ | |-- devices
+ | `-- name
+ |-- mtty_dev
+ | `-- sample_mtty_dev
+ |-- power
+ | |-- autosuspend_delay_ms
+ | |-- control
+ | |-- runtime_active_time
+ | |-- runtime_status
+ | `-- runtime_suspended_time
+ |-- subsystem -> ../../../../class/mtty
+ `-- uevent
+
+2. Create a mediated device by using the dummy device that you created in the
+ previous step::
+
+ # echo "83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001" > \
+ /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/mdev_supported_types/mtty-2/create
+
+3. Add parameters to qemu-kvm::
+
+ -device vfio-pci,\
+ sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001
+
+4. Boot the VM.
+
+ In the Linux guest VM, with no hardware on the host, the device appears
+ as follows::
+
+ # lspci -s 00:05.0 -xxvv
+ 00:05.0 Serial controller: Device 4348:3253 (rev 10) (prog-if 02 [16550])
+ Subsystem: Device 4348:3253
+ Physical Slot: 5
+ Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
+ Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
+ Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
+ <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
+ Region 0: I/O ports at c150 [size=8]
+ Region 1: I/O ports at c158 [size=8]
+ Kernel driver in use: serial
+ 00: 48 43 53 32 01 00 00 02 10 02 00 07 00 00 00 00
+ 10: 51 c1 00 00 59 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+ 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 43 53 32
+ 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
+
+ In the Linux guest VM, dmesg output for the device is as follows:
+
+ serial 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
+ 0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xc150 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
+ 0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xc158 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
+
+
+5. In the Linux guest VM, check the serial ports::
+
+ # setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
+ /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
+ /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc150, IRQ: 10
+ /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc158, IRQ: 10
+
+6. Using minicom or any terminal emulation program, open port /dev/ttyS1 or
+ /dev/ttyS2 with hardware flow control disabled.
+
+7. Type data on the minicom terminal or send data to the terminal emulation
+ program and read the data.
+
+ Data is loop backed from hosts mtty driver.
+
+8. Destroy the mediated device that you created::
+
+ # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001/remove
+
+References
+==========
+
+1. See Documentation/vfio.txt for more information on VFIO.
+2. struct mdev_driver in include/linux/mdev.h
+3. struct mdev_parent_ops in include/linux/mdev.h
+4. struct vfio_iommu_driver_ops in include/linux/vfio.h
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