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Re: [Xen-devel] PCI Pass-through in Xen ARM - Draft 2.



On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 15:36 +0530, Manish Jaggi wrote:
> 
> On Monday 06 July 2015 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 11:25 +0530, Manish Jaggi wrote:
> >> On Monday 29 June 2015 04:01 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
> >>> Hi Manish,
> >>>
> >>> On 28/06/15 19:38, Manish Jaggi wrote:
> >>>> 4.1 Holes in guest memory space
> >>>> ----------------------------
> >>>> Holes are added in the guest memory space for mapping pci device's BAR
> >>>> regions.
> >>>> These are defined in arch-arm.h
> >>>>
> >>>> /* For 32bit */
> >>>> GUEST_MMIO_HOLE0_BASE, GUEST_MMIO_HOLE0_SIZE
> >>>>    
> >>>> /* For 64bit */
> >>>> GUEST_MMIO_HOLE1_BASE , GUEST_MMIO_HOLE1_SIZE
> >>> The memory layout for 32bit and 64bit are exactly the same. Why do you
> >>> need to differ here?
> >> I think Ian has already replied. I will change the name of macro
> >>>> 4.2 New entries in xenstore for device BARs
> >>>> --------------------------------------------
> >>>> toolkit also updates the xenstore information for the device
> >>>> (virtualbar:physical bar).
> >>>> This information is read by xenpciback and returned to the pcifront
> >>>> driver configuration
> >>>> space accesses.
> >>> Can you details what do you plan to put in xenstore and how?
> >> It is implementation . But I plan to put under domU / device / heirarchy
> > Actually, xenstore is an API of sorts which needs to be maintained going
> > forward (since front and backend can evolve separately, so it does need
> > some level of design and documentation.
> >
> >>> What about the expansion ROM?
> >> Do you want to put some restriction on not using expansion ROM as a
> >> passthrough device.
> > "expansion ROM as a passthrough device" doesn't make sense to me,
> > passthrough devices may _have_ an expansion ROM.
> >
> > The expansion ROM is just another BAR. I don't know how pcifront/back
> > deal with those today on PV x86, but I see no reason for ARM to deviate.
> >
> >
> >>>> 4.3 Hypercall for bdf mapping notification to xen
> >>>> -----------------------------------------------
> >>>> #define PHYSDEVOP_map_sbdf              43
> >>>> typedef struct {
> >>>>       u32 s;
> >>>>       u8 b;
> >>>>       u8 df;
> >>>>       u16 res;
> >>>> } sbdf_t;
> >>>> struct physdev_map_sbdf {
> >>>>       int domain_id;
> >>>>       sbdf_t    sbdf;
> >>>>       sbdf_t    gsbdf;
> >>>> };
> >>>>
> >>>> Each domain has a pdev list, which contains the list of all pci devices.
> >>>> The
> >>>> pdev structure already has a sbdf information. The arch_pci_dev is
> >>>> updated to
> >>>> contain the gsbdf information. (gs- guest segment id)
> >>>>
> >>>> Whenever there is trap from guest or an interrupt has to be injected,
> >>>> the pdev
> >>>> list is iterated to find the gsbdf.
> >>> Can you give more background for this section? i.e:
> >>>   - Why do you need this?
> >>>   - How xen will translate the gbdf to a vDeviceID?
> >> In the context of the hypercall processing.
> >>>   - Who will call this hypercall?
> >>>   - Why not setting the gsbdf when the device is assigned?
> >> Can the maintainer of the pciback suggest an alternate.
> > That's not me, but I don't think this belongs here, I think it can be
> > done from the toolstack. If you think not then please explain what
> > information the toolstack doesn't have in its possession which prevents
> > this mapping from being done there.
> The toolstack does not have the guest sbdf information. I could only 
> find it in xenpciback.

Are you sure? The sbdf relates to the physical device, correct? If so
then surely the toolstack knows it -- it's written in the config file
and is the primary parameter to all of the related libxl passthrough
APIs. The toolstack wouldn't be able to do anything about passing
through a given device without knowing which device it should be passing
through.

Perhaps this info needs plumbing through to some new bit of the
toolstack, but it is surely available somewhere.

If you meant the virtual SBDF then that is in libxl_device_pci.vdevfn.

Ian.


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