Re: [PATCH v9 17/17] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE
From: Jason Wang <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-15 05:18:56
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在 2021/7/13 下午4:46, Xie Yongji 写道:
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VDUSE (vDPA Device in Userspace) is a framework to support implementing software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace. This document is intended to clarify the VDUSE design and usage. Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <redacted> --- Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst | 248 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 249 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rstdiff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst index 0b5eefed027e..c432be070f67 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ place where this information is gathered. iommu media/index sysfs-platform_profile + vduse .. only:: subproject and htmldiff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2c0d56d4b2da --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@ +================================== +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. + +Start/Stop VDUSE devices +------------------------ + +VDUSE devices are started as follows:
Not native speaker but "created" is probably better.
+ +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.
I think 4 should be done before 3?
+ +VDUSE devices are stopped as follows:
"removed" or "destroyed" is better than "stopped" here.
+
+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/$NAME.
+
+3. Destroy the VDUSE instance with ioctl(VDUSE_DESTROY_DEV) on
+ /dev/vduse/control.
+
+The netlink messages can be sent via vdpa tool in iproute2 or use the
+below sample codes:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static int netlink_add_vduse(const char *name, enum vdpa_command cmd)
+ {
+ struct nl_sock *nlsock;
+ struct nl_msg *msg;
+ int famid;
+
+ nlsock = nl_socket_alloc();
+ if (!nlsock)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (genl_connect(nlsock))
+ goto free_sock;
+
+ famid = genl_ctrl_resolve(nlsock, VDPA_GENL_NAME);
+ if (famid < 0)
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ msg = nlmsg_alloc();
+ if (!msg)
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ if (!genlmsg_put(msg, NL_AUTO_PORT, NL_AUTO_SEQ, famid, 0, 0, cmd, 0))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+
+ NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NAME, name);
+ if (cmd == VDPA_CMD_DEV_NEW)
+ NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, VDPA_ATTR_MGMTDEV_DEV_NAME, "vduse");
+
+ if (nl_send_sync(nlsock, msg))
+ goto close_sock;
+
+ nl_close(nlsock);
+ nl_socket_free(nlsock);
+
+ return 0;
+ nla_put_failure:
+ nlmsg_free(msg);
+ close_sock:
+ nl_close(nlsock);
+ free_sock:
+ nl_socket_free(nlsock);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+How VDUSE works
+---------------
+
+As mentioned above, a VDUSE device is created by ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on
+/dev/vduse/control. With this ioctl, userspace can specify some basic configuration
+such as device name (uniquely identify a VDUSE device), virtio features, virtio
+configuration space, bounce buffer sizeThis bounce buffer size looks questionable. We'd better not expose any implementation details to userspace. I think we can simply start with a module parameter for VDUSE?
and so on for this emulated device. Then
+a char device interface (/dev/vduse/$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 message */"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_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 with the help of below ioctls: + +- VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD: Find the first IOVA region that overlaps with the specified + range [start, last] and return the corresponding file descriptor. In vhost-vdpa + cases, it might be a full chunk of guest RAM. And in virtio-vdpa cases, it should + be the whole bounce buffer or the memory region that stores one virtqueue's + metadata (descriptor table, available ring and used ring).
I think we can simply remove the driver specific sentences. And just say to use map the pages to the IOVA.
Userspace can access
+ this IOVA region by passing fd and corresponding size, offset, perm to mmap().
+ For example:
+
+.. 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;
+ 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;
+ }
+
+- VDUSE_VQ_GET_INFO: Get the specified virtqueue's information including the size,
+ the IOVAs of descriptor table, available ring and used ring, the state
+ and the ready status.Maybe it's better just show the vduse_vq_info here, or both. (maybe we can do the same for the rest of ioctls).
The IOVAs should be passed to the VDUSE_IOTLB_GET_FD ioctl + so that userspace can access the descriptor table, available ring and used ring. + +- VDUSE_VQ_SETUP_KICKFD: Setup the kick eventfd for the specified virtqueues. + The kick eventfd is used by VDUSE kernel module to notify userspace to consume + the available ring. + +- VDUSE_INJECT_VQ_IRQ: Inject an interrupt for specific virtqueue. It's used to + notify virtio driver to consume the used ring.
The config interrupt injection is missed.
+ +More details on the uAPI can be found in include/uapi/linux/vduse.h. + +MMU-based IOMMU Driver +---------------------- +
It's kind of software IOTLB actually. Maybe we can call that "MMU-based software IOTLB"
+VDUSE framework implements an MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver to support +mapping the kernel DMA buffer into the userspace IOVA region dynamically. +This is mainly designed for virtio-vdpa case (kernel virtio drivers). + +The basic idea behind this driver is treating MMU (VA->PA) as IOMMU (IOVA->PA). +The driver will set up MMU mapping instead of IOMMU mapping for the DMA transfer +so that the userspace process is able to use its virtual address to access +the DMA buffer in kernel. + +And to avoid security issue, a bounce-buffering mechanism is introduced to +prevent userspace accessing the original buffer directly which may contain other +kernel data.
I wonder if it's worth to describe the method we used for guarding against malicious userspace device. Thanks
During the mapping, unmapping, the driver will copy the data from +the original buffer to the bounce buffer and back, depending on the direction of +the transfer. And the bounce-buffer addresses will be mapped into the user address +space instead of the original one.
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