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QEMU is not handling the global DMAR switch well, especially when from "on" to "off". Let's first take the example of system reset. Assuming that a guest has IOMMU enabled. When it reboots, we will drop all the existing DMAR mappings to handle the system reset, however we'll still keep the existing memory layouts which has the IOMMU memory region enabled. So after the reboot and before the kernel reloads again, there will be no mapping at all for the host device. That's problematic since any software (for example, SeaBIOS) that runs earlier than the kernel after the reboot will assume the IOMMU is disabled, so any DMA from the software will fail. For example, a guest that boots on an assigned NVMe device might fail to find the boot device after a system reboot/reset and we'll be able to observe SeaBIOS errors if we capture the debugging log: WARNING - Timeout at nvme_wait:144! Meanwhile, we should see DMAR errors on the host of that NVMe device. It's the DMA fault that caused a NVMe driver timeout. The correct fix should be that we do proper switching of device DMA address spaces when system resets, which will setup correct memory regions and notify the backend of the devices. This might not affect much on non-assigned devices since QEMU VT-d emulation will assume a default passthrough mapping if DMAR is not enabled in the GCMD register (please refer to vtd_iommu_translate). However that's required for an assigned devices, since that'll rebuild the correct GPA to HPA mapping that is needed for any DMA operation during guest bootstrap. Besides the system reset, we have some other places that might change the global DMAR status and we'd better do the same thing there. For example, when we change the state of GCMD register, or the DMAR root pointer. Do the same refresh for all these places. For these two places we'll also need to explicitly invalidate the context entry cache and iotlb cache. Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625173 CC: QEMU Stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org> Reported-by: Cong Li <coli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> -- v2: - do the same for GCMD write, or root pointer update [Alex] - test is carried out by me this time, by observing the vtd_switch_address_space tracepoint after system reboot v3: - rewrite commit message as suggested by Alex Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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