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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bdb880e01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@ +================================== +VDUSE - "vDPA Device in Userspace" +================================== + +vDPA (virtio data path acceleration) device is a device that uses a +datapath which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor +specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on +the hardware or emulated by software. VDUSE is a framework that makes it +possible to implement software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace. And +to make the device emulation more secure, the emulated vDPA device's +control path is handled in the kernel and only the data path is +implemented in the userspace. + +Note that only virtio block device is supported by VDUSE framework now, +which can reduce security risks when the userspace process that implements +the data path is run by an unprivileged user. The support for other device +types can be added after the security issue of corresponding device driver +is clarified or fixed in the future. + +Create/Destroy VDUSE devices +---------------------------- + +VDUSE devices are created as follows: + +1. Create a new VDUSE instance with ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on + /dev/vduse/control. + +2. Setup each virtqueue with ioctl(VDUSE_VQ_SETUP) on /dev/vduse/$NAME. + +3. Begin processing VDUSE messages from /dev/vduse/$NAME. The first + messages will arrive while attaching the VDUSE instance to vDPA bus. + +4. Send the VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW netlink message to attach the VDUSE + instance to vDPA bus. + +VDUSE devices are destroyed as follows: + +1. Send the VDPA_CMD_DEV_DEL netlink message to detach the VDUSE + instance from vDPA bus. + +2. Close the file descriptor referring to /dev/vduse/$NAME. + +3. Destroy the VDUSE instance with ioctl(VDUSE_DESTROY_DEV) on + /dev/vduse/control. + +The netlink messages can be sent via vdpa tool in iproute2 or use the +below sample codes: + +.. code-block:: c + + static int netlink_add_vduse(const char *name, enum vdpa_command cmd) + { + struct nl_sock *nlsock; + struct nl_msg *msg; + int famid; + + nlsock = nl_socket_alloc(); + if (!nlsock) + return -ENOMEM; + + if (genl_connect(nlsock)) + goto free_sock; + + famid = genl_ctrl_resolve(nlsock, VDPA_GENL_NAME); + if (famid < 0) + goto close_sock; + + msg = nlmsg_alloc(); + if (!msg) + goto close_sock; + + if (!genlmsg_put(msg, NL_AUTO_PORT, NL_AUTO_SEQ, famid, 0, 0, cmd, 0)) + goto nla_put_failure; + + NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NAME, name); + if (cmd == VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW) + NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_MGMTDEV_DEV_NAME, "vduse"); + + if (nl_send_sync(nlsock, msg)) + goto close_sock; + + nl_close(nlsock); + nl_socket_free(nlsock); + + return 0; + nla_put_failure: + nlmsg_free(msg); + close_sock: + nl_close(nlsock); + free_sock: + nl_socket_free(nlsock); + return -1; + } + +How VDUSE works +--------------- + +As mentioned above, a VDUSE device is created by ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on +/dev/vduse/control. With this ioctl, userspace can specify some basic configuration +such as device name (uniquely identify a VDUSE device), virtio features, virtio +configuration space, the number of virtqueues and so on for this emulated device. +Then a char device interface (/dev/vduse/$NAME) is exported to userspace for device +emulation. Userspace can use the VDUSE_VQ_SETUP ioctl on /dev/vduse/$NAME to +add per-virtqueue configuration such as the max size of virtqueue to the device. + +After the initialization, the VDUSE device can be attached to vDPA bus via +the VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW netlink message. Userspace needs to read()/write() on +/dev/vduse/$NAME to receive/reply some control messages from/to VDUSE kernel +module as follows: + +.. code-block:: c + + static int vduse_message_handler(int dev_fd) + { + int len; + struct vduse_dev_request req; + struct vduse_dev_response resp; + + len = read(dev_fd, &req, sizeof(req)); + if (len != sizeof(req)) + return -1; + + resp.request_id = req.request_id; + + switch (req.type) { + + /* handle different types of messages */ + + } + + len = write(dev_fd, &resp, sizeof(resp)); + if (len != sizeof(resp)) + return -1; + + return 0; + } + +There are now three types of messages introduced by VDUSE framework: + +- VDUSE_GET_VQ_STATE: Get the state for virtqueue, userspace should return + avail index for split virtqueue or the device/driver ring wrap counters and + the avail and used index for packed virtqueue. + +- VDUSE_SET_STATUS: Set the device status, userspace should follow + the virtio spec: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/virtio-v1.1.html + to process this message. For example, fail to set the FEATURES_OK device + status bit if the device can not accept the negotiated virtio features + get from the VDUSE_DEV_GET_FEATURES ioctl. + +- VDUSE_UPDATE_IOTLB: Notify userspace to update the memory mapping for specified + IOVA range, userspace should firstly remove the old mapping, then setup the new + mapping via the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl. + +After DRIVER_OK status bit is set via the VDUSE_SET_STATUS message, userspace is +able to start the dataplane processing as follows: + +1. Get the specified virtqueue's information with the VDUSE_VQ_GET_INFO ioctl, + including the size, the IOVAs of descriptor table, available ring and used ring, + the state and the ready status. + +2. Pass the above IOVAs to the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl so that those IOVA regions + can be mapped into userspace. Some sample codes is shown below: + +.. code-block:: c + + static int perm_to_prot(uint8_t perm) + { + int prot = 0; + + switch (perm) { + case VDUSE_ACCESS_WO: + prot |= PROT_WRITE; + break; + case VDUSE_ACCESS_RO: + prot |= PROT_READ; + break; + case VDUSE_ACCESS_RW: + prot |= PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE; + break; + } + + return prot; + } + + static void *iova_to_va(int dev_fd, uint64_t iova, uint64_t *len) + { + int fd; + void *addr; + size_t size; + struct vduse_iotlb_entry entry; + + entry.start = iova; + entry.last = iova; + + /* + * Find the first IOVA region that overlaps with the specified + * range [start, last] and return the corresponding file descriptor. + */ + fd = ioctl(dev_fd, VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD, &entry); + if (fd < 0) + return NULL; + + size = entry.last - entry.start + 1; + *len = entry.last - iova + 1; + addr = mmap(0, size, perm_to_prot(entry.perm), MAP_SHARED, + fd, entry.offset); + close(fd); + if (addr == MAP_FAILED) + return NULL; + + /* + * Using some data structures such as linked list to store + * the iotlb mapping. The munmap(2) should be called for the + * cached mapping when the corresponding VDUSE_UPDATE_IOTLB + * message is received or the device is reset. + */ + + return addr + iova - entry.start; + } + +3. Setup the kick eventfd for the specified virtqueues with the VDUSE_VQ_SETUP_KICKFD + ioctl. The kick eventfd is used by VDUSE kernel module to notify userspace to + consume the available ring. This is optional since userspace can choose to poll the + available ring instead. + +4. Listen to the kick eventfd (optional) and consume the available ring. The buffer + described by the descriptors in the descriptor table should be also mapped into + userspace via the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl before accessing. + +5. Inject an interrupt for specific virtqueue with the VDUSE_INJECT_VQ_IRQ ioctl + after the used ring is filled. + +For more details on the uAPI, please see include/uapi/linux/vduse.h. |