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Diffstat (limited to 'hw/vfio')
| -rw-r--r-- | hw/vfio/common.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c index fb396cf00a..a3d758af8d 100644 --- a/hw/vfio/common.c +++ b/hw/vfio/common.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include "hw/hw.h" #include "qemu/error-report.h" #include "qemu/range.h" +#include "sysemu/balloon.h" #include "sysemu/kvm.h" #include "trace.h" #include "qapi/error.h" @@ -1044,6 +1045,33 @@ static int vfio_connect_container(VFIOGroup *group, AddressSpace *as, space = vfio_get_address_space(as); + /* + * VFIO is currently incompatible with memory ballooning insofar as the + * madvise to purge (zap) the page from QEMU's address space does not + * interact with the memory API and therefore leaves stale virtual to + * physical mappings in the IOMMU if the page was previously pinned. We + * therefore add a balloon inhibit for each group added to a container, + * whether the container is used individually or shared. This provides + * us with options to allow devices within a group to opt-in and allow + * ballooning, so long as it is done consistently for a group (for instance + * if the device is an mdev device where it is known that the host vendor + * driver will never pin pages outside of the working set of the guest + * driver, which would thus not be ballooning candidates). + * + * The first opportunity to induce pinning occurs here where we attempt to + * attach the group to existing containers within the AddressSpace. If any + * pages are already zapped from the virtual address space, such as from a + * previous ballooning opt-in, new pinning will cause valid mappings to be + * re-established. Likewise, when the overall MemoryListener for a new + * container is registered, a replay of mappings within the AddressSpace + * will occur, re-establishing any previously zapped pages as well. + * + * NB. Balloon inhibiting does not currently block operation of the + * balloon driver or revoke previously pinned pages, it only prevents + * calling madvise to modify the virtual mapping of ballooned pages. + */ + qemu_balloon_inhibit(true); + QLIST_FOREACH(container, &space->containers, next) { if (!ioctl(group->fd, VFIO_GROUP_SET_CONTAINER, &container->fd)) { group->container = container; @@ -1232,6 +1260,7 @@ close_fd_exit: close(fd); put_space_exit: + qemu_balloon_inhibit(false); vfio_put_address_space(space); return ret; @@ -1352,6 +1381,7 @@ void vfio_put_group(VFIOGroup *group) return; } + qemu_balloon_inhibit(false); vfio_kvm_device_del_group(group); vfio_disconnect_container(group); QLIST_REMOVE(group, next); |