[RFC v2] bus/fslmc: fix invalid use of default VFIO config

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at oss.nxp.com
Fri Jun 3 15:58:56 CEST 2022


Tested ok

Acked-by:  Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>

On 5/31/2022 2:57 PM, Romain Delhomel wrote:
> At device probe, the fslmc bus driver calls rte_vfio_get_group_fd() to
> get a fd associated to a vfio group. This function first checks if the
> group is already opened, else it opens /dev/vfio/%u, and increases the
> number of active groups in default_vfio_cfg (which references the
> default vfio container).
>
> When adding the first group to a vfio_cfg, the caller is supposed to
> pick an IOMMU type and set up DMA mappings for container, as it's done
> by pci bus, but it is not done here. Instead, a new container is created
> and used.
>
> This prevents the pci bus driver, which uses the default_vfio_cfg
> container, to configure the container because
> default_vfio_cfg->active_group > 1.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by always creating a new container (and its
> associated vfio_cfg) and binding the group to it.
>
> Fixes: a69f79300262 ("bus/fslmc: support multi VFIO group")
> Signed-off-by: Romain Delhomel <romain.delhomel at 6wind.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Fix wrong indentation
>
>   drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_vfio.c | 10 +++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_vfio.c b/drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_vfio.c
> index b4704eeae4e2..abe1cab2ee20 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_vfio.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_vfio.c
> @@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ fslmc_vfio_setup_group(void)
>   {
>   	int groupid;
>   	int ret;
> +	int vfio_container_fd;
>   	struct vfio_group_status status = { .argsz = sizeof(status) };
>   
>   	/* if already done once */
> @@ -997,8 +998,15 @@ fslmc_vfio_setup_group(void)
>   		return 0;
>   	}
>   
> +	ret = rte_vfio_container_create();
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		DPAA2_BUS_ERR("Failed to open VFIO container");
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +	vfio_container_fd = ret;
> +
>   	/* Get the actual group fd */
> -	ret = rte_vfio_get_group_fd(groupid);
> +	ret = rte_vfio_container_group_bind(vfio_container_fd, groupid);
>   	if (ret < 0)
>   		return ret;
>   	vfio_group.fd = ret;


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