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Halil Pasic April 26, 2019, 6:32 p.m. UTC
Enhanced virtualization protection technology may require the use of
bounce buffers for I/O. While support for this was built into the virtio
core, virtio-ccw wasn't changed accordingly.

Some background on technology (not part of this series) and the
terminology used.

* Protected Virtualization (PV):

Protected Virtualization guarantees, that non-shared memory of a  guest
that operates in PV mode private to that guest. I.e. any attempts by the
hypervisor or other guests to access it will result in an exception. If
supported by the environment (machine, KVM, guest VM) a guest can decide
to change into PV mode by doing the appropriate ultravisor calls. Unlike
some other enhanced virtualization protection technology, 

* Ultravisor:

A hardware/firmware entity that manages PV guests, and polices access to
their memory. A PV guest prospect needs to interact with the ultravisor,
to enter PV mode, and potentially to share pages (for I/O which should
be encrypted by the guest). A guest interacts with the ultravisor via so
called ultravisor calls. A hypervisor needs to interact with the
ultravisor to facilitate interpretation, emulation and swapping. A
hypervisor  interacts with the ultravisor via ultravisor calls and via
the SIE state description. Generally the ultravisor sanitizes hypervisor
inputs so that the guest can not be corrupted (except for denial of
service.


What needs to be done
=====================

Thus what needs to be done to bring virtio-ccw up to speed with respect
to protected virtualization is:
* use some 'new' common virtio stuff
* make sure that virtio-ccw specific stuff uses shared memory when
  talking to the hypervisor (except control/communication blocks like ORB,
  these are handled by the ultravisor)
* make sure the DMA API does what is necessary to talk through shared
  memory if we are a protected virtualization guest.
* make sure the common IO layer plays along as well (airqs, sense).


Important notes
================

* This patch set is based on Martins features branch
 (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git branch
 'features').

* Documentation is still very sketchy. I'm committed to improving this,
  but I'm currently hampered by some dependencies currently.  

* The existing naming in the common infrastructure (kernel internal
  interfaces) is pretty much based on the AMD SEV terminology. Thus the
  names aren't always perfect. There might be merit to changing these
  names to more abstract ones. I did not put much thought into that at
  the current stage.

* Testing: Please use iommu_platform=on for any virtio devices you are
  going to test this code with (so virtio actually uses the DMA API).

Change log
==========

RFC --> v1:
* Fixed bugs found by Connie (may_reduce and handling reduced,  warning,
  split move -- thanks Connie!).
* Fixed console bug found by Sebastian (thanks Sebastian!).
* Removed the completely useless duplicate of dma-mapping.h spotted by
  Christoph (thanks Christoph!).
* Don't use the global DMA pool for subchannel and ccw device
  owned memory as requested by Sebastian. Consequences:
	* Both subchannel and ccw devices have their dma masks
	now (both specifying 31 bit addressable)
	* We require at least 2 DMA pages per ccw device now, most of
	this memory is wasted though.
	* DMA memory allocated by virtio is also 31 bit addressable now
        as virtio uses the parent (which is the ccw device).
* Enabled packed ring.
* Rebased onto Martins feature branch; using the actual uv (ultravisor)
  interface instead of TODO comments.
* Added some explanations to the cover letter (Connie, David).
* Squashed a couple of patches together and fixed some text stuff. 

Looking forward to your review, or any other type of input.

Halil Pasic (10):
  virtio/s390: use vring_create_virtqueue
  virtio/s390: DMA support for virtio-ccw
  virtio/s390: enable packed ring
  s390/mm: force swiotlb for protected virtualization
  s390/cio: introduce DMA pools to cio
  s390/cio: add basic protected virtualization support
  s390/airq: use DMA memory for adapter interrupts
  virtio/s390: add indirection to indicators access
  virtio/s390: use DMA memory for ccw I/O and classic notifiers
  virtio/s390: make airq summary indicators DMA

 arch/s390/Kconfig                   |   5 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/airq.h        |   2 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h      |   4 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h         |  11 ++
 arch/s390/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h |  18 +++
 arch/s390/mm/init.c                 |  50 +++++++
 drivers/s390/cio/airq.c             |  18 ++-
 drivers/s390/cio/ccwreq.c           |   8 +-
 drivers/s390/cio/cio.h              |   1 +
 drivers/s390/cio/css.c              | 101 +++++++++++++
 drivers/s390/cio/device.c           |  65 +++++++--
 drivers/s390/cio/device_fsm.c       |  40 +++---
 drivers/s390/cio/device_id.c        |  18 +--
 drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c       |  21 ++-
 drivers/s390/cio/device_pgid.c      |  20 +--
 drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c    |  24 ++--
 drivers/s390/cio/io_sch.h           |  21 ++-
 drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c    | 275 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 include/linux/virtio.h              |  17 ---
 19 files changed, 499 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/s390/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h

Comments

Cornelia Huck May 3, 2019, 9:55 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:35 +0200
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> Enhanced virtualization protection technology may require the use of
> bounce buffers for I/O. While support for this was built into the virtio
> core, virtio-ccw wasn't changed accordingly.
> 
> Some background on technology (not part of this series) and the
> terminology used.
> 
> * Protected Virtualization (PV):
> 
> Protected Virtualization guarantees, that non-shared memory of a  guest
> that operates in PV mode private to that guest. I.e. any attempts by the
> hypervisor or other guests to access it will result in an exception. If
> supported by the environment (machine, KVM, guest VM) a guest can decide
> to change into PV mode by doing the appropriate ultravisor calls. Unlike
> some other enhanced virtualization protection technology, 

I think that sentence misses its second part?

> 
> * Ultravisor:
> 
> A hardware/firmware entity that manages PV guests, and polices access to
> their memory. A PV guest prospect needs to interact with the ultravisor,
> to enter PV mode, and potentially to share pages (for I/O which should
> be encrypted by the guest). A guest interacts with the ultravisor via so
> called ultravisor calls. A hypervisor needs to interact with the
> ultravisor to facilitate interpretation, emulation and swapping. A
> hypervisor  interacts with the ultravisor via ultravisor calls and via
> the SIE state description. Generally the ultravisor sanitizes hypervisor
> inputs so that the guest can not be corrupted (except for denial of
> service.
> 
> 
> What needs to be done
> =====================
> 
> Thus what needs to be done to bring virtio-ccw up to speed with respect
> to protected virtualization is:
> * use some 'new' common virtio stuff

Doing this makes sense regardless of the protected virtualization use
case, and I think we should go ahead and merge those patches for 5.2.

> * make sure that virtio-ccw specific stuff uses shared memory when
>   talking to the hypervisor (except control/communication blocks like ORB,
>   these are handled by the ultravisor)

TBH, I'm still a bit hazy on what needs to use shared memory and what
doesn't.

> * make sure the DMA API does what is necessary to talk through shared
>   memory if we are a protected virtualization guest.
> * make sure the common IO layer plays along as well (airqs, sense).
> 
> 
> Important notes
> ================
> 
> * This patch set is based on Martins features branch
>  (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git branch
>  'features').
> 
> * Documentation is still very sketchy. I'm committed to improving this,
>   but I'm currently hampered by some dependencies currently.  

I understand, but I think this really needs more doc; also for people
who want to understand the code in the future.

Unfortunately lack of doc also hampers others in reviewing this :/

> 
> * The existing naming in the common infrastructure (kernel internal
>   interfaces) is pretty much based on the AMD SEV terminology. Thus the
>   names aren't always perfect. There might be merit to changing these
>   names to more abstract ones. I did not put much thought into that at
>   the current stage.
> 
> * Testing: Please use iommu_platform=on for any virtio devices you are
>   going to test this code with (so virtio actually uses the DMA API).
> 
> Change log
> ==========
> 
> RFC --> v1:
> * Fixed bugs found by Connie (may_reduce and handling reduced,  warning,
>   split move -- thanks Connie!).
> * Fixed console bug found by Sebastian (thanks Sebastian!).
> * Removed the completely useless duplicate of dma-mapping.h spotted by
>   Christoph (thanks Christoph!).
> * Don't use the global DMA pool for subchannel and ccw device
>   owned memory as requested by Sebastian. Consequences:
> 	* Both subchannel and ccw devices have their dma masks
> 	now (both specifying 31 bit addressable)
> 	* We require at least 2 DMA pages per ccw device now, most of
> 	this memory is wasted though.
> 	* DMA memory allocated by virtio is also 31 bit addressable now
>         as virtio uses the parent (which is the ccw device).
> * Enabled packed ring.
> * Rebased onto Martins feature branch; using the actual uv (ultravisor)
>   interface instead of TODO comments.
> * Added some explanations to the cover letter (Connie, David).
> * Squashed a couple of patches together and fixed some text stuff. 
> 
> Looking forward to your review, or any other type of input.
> 
> Halil Pasic (10):
>   virtio/s390: use vring_create_virtqueue
>   virtio/s390: DMA support for virtio-ccw
>   virtio/s390: enable packed ring
>   s390/mm: force swiotlb for protected virtualization
>   s390/cio: introduce DMA pools to cio
>   s390/cio: add basic protected virtualization support
>   s390/airq: use DMA memory for adapter interrupts
>   virtio/s390: add indirection to indicators access
>   virtio/s390: use DMA memory for ccw I/O and classic notifiers
>   virtio/s390: make airq summary indicators DMA
> 
>  arch/s390/Kconfig                   |   5 +
>  arch/s390/include/asm/airq.h        |   2 +
>  arch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h      |   4 +
>  arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h         |  11 ++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h |  18 +++
>  arch/s390/mm/init.c                 |  50 +++++++
>  drivers/s390/cio/airq.c             |  18 ++-
>  drivers/s390/cio/ccwreq.c           |   8 +-
>  drivers/s390/cio/cio.h              |   1 +
>  drivers/s390/cio/css.c              | 101 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/s390/cio/device.c           |  65 +++++++--
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_fsm.c       |  40 +++---
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_id.c        |  18 +--
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c       |  21 ++-
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_pgid.c      |  20 +--
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c    |  24 ++--
>  drivers/s390/cio/io_sch.h           |  21 ++-
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c    | 275 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  include/linux/virtio.h              |  17 ---
>  19 files changed, 499 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/s390/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
>
Jürgen Groß May 3, 2019, 10:03 a.m. UTC | #2
On 03/05/2019 11:55, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:35 +0200
> Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Enhanced virtualization protection technology may require the use of
>> bounce buffers for I/O. While support for this was built into the virtio
>> core, virtio-ccw wasn't changed accordingly.
>>
>> Some background on technology (not part of this series) and the
>> terminology used.
>>
>> * Protected Virtualization (PV):

Uuh, you are aware that "PV" in virtualization environment is used as
"Para-Virtualization" (e.g. in Xen) today? I believe you are risking a
major mis-understanding here.


Juergen
Cornelia Huck May 3, 2019, 1:33 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, 3 May 2019 11:55:11 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:35 +0200
> Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 

> > What needs to be done
> > =====================
> > 
> > Thus what needs to be done to bring virtio-ccw up to speed with respect
> > to protected virtualization is:
> > * use some 'new' common virtio stuff
> 
> Doing this makes sense regardless of the protected virtualization use
> case, and I think we should go ahead and merge those patches for 5.2.
> 
> > * make sure that virtio-ccw specific stuff uses shared memory when
> >   talking to the hypervisor (except control/communication blocks like ORB,
> >   these are handled by the ultravisor)
> 
> TBH, I'm still a bit hazy on what needs to use shared memory and what
> doesn't.
> 
> > * make sure the DMA API does what is necessary to talk through shared
> >   memory if we are a protected virtualization guest.
> > * make sure the common IO layer plays along as well (airqs, sense).

I've skimmed some more over the rest of the patches; but I think this
needs review by someone else.

For example, I'm not sure what the semantics of using the main css
device as the dma device are, as I'm not sufficiently familiar with the
intricacies of the dma infrastructure. Combine this with a lack of
documentation of the hardware architecture, and I think that others can
provide much better feedback on this than I am able to.
Halil Pasic May 4, 2019, 1:58 p.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, 3 May 2019 11:55:11 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:35 +0200
> Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Enhanced virtualization protection technology may require the use of
> > bounce buffers for I/O. While support for this was built into the virtio
> > core, virtio-ccw wasn't changed accordingly.
> > 
> > Some background on technology (not part of this series) and the
> > terminology used.
> > 
> > * Protected Virtualization (PV):
> > 
> > Protected Virtualization guarantees, that non-shared memory of a  guest
> > that operates in PV mode private to that guest. I.e. any attempts by the
> > hypervisor or other guests to access it will result in an exception. If
> > supported by the environment (machine, KVM, guest VM) a guest can decide
> > to change into PV mode by doing the appropriate ultravisor calls. Unlike
> > some other enhanced virtualization protection technology, 
> 
> I think that sentence misses its second part?
>

I wanted to kill the whole sentence, but killed only a part of
it. :( Sorry. If any, the sentence had only significance for judging how
well inherited some names fit.
  
> > 
> > * Ultravisor:
> > 
> > A hardware/firmware entity that manages PV guests, and polices access to
> > their memory. A PV guest prospect needs to interact with the ultravisor,
> > to enter PV mode, and potentially to share pages (for I/O which should
> > be encrypted by the guest). A guest interacts with the ultravisor via so
> > called ultravisor calls. A hypervisor needs to interact with the
> > ultravisor to facilitate interpretation, emulation and swapping. A
> > hypervisor  interacts with the ultravisor via ultravisor calls and via
> > the SIE state description. Generally the ultravisor sanitizes hypervisor
> > inputs so that the guest can not be corrupted (except for denial of
> > service.
> > 
> > 
> > What needs to be done
> > =====================
> > 
> > Thus what needs to be done to bring virtio-ccw up to speed with respect
> > to protected virtualization is:
> > * use some 'new' common virtio stuff
> 
> Doing this makes sense regardless of the protected virtualization use
> case, and I think we should go ahead and merge those patches for 5.2.
> 

I agree.

> > * make sure that virtio-ccw specific stuff uses shared memory when
> >   talking to the hypervisor (except control/communication blocks like ORB,
> >   these are handled by the ultravisor)
> 
> TBH, I'm still a bit hazy on what needs to use shared memory and what
> doesn't.
> 

It is all in the code :). To have complete and definitive answers here
we would need some sort of public UV architecture.

> > * make sure the DMA API does what is necessary to talk through shared
> >   memory if we are a protected virtualization guest.
> > * make sure the common IO layer plays along as well (airqs, sense).
> > 
> > 
> > Important notes
> > ================
> > 
> > * This patch set is based on Martins features branch
> >  (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git branch
> >  'features').
> > 
> > * Documentation is still very sketchy. I'm committed to improving this,
> >   but I'm currently hampered by some dependencies currently.  
> 
> I understand, but I think this really needs more doc; also for people
> who want to understand the code in the future.
> 
> Unfortunately lack of doc also hampers others in reviewing this :/
>

I'm not sure how much can we do on the doc front. Without a complete
architecture, one basically needs to trust the guys with access to the
architecture.

Many thanks for your feedback. Regards,
Halil

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