diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst | 182 |
1 files changed, 182 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..280673b50350 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================ +PCI Peer-to-Peer DMA Support +============================ + +The PCI bus has pretty decent support for performing DMA transfers +between two devices on the bus. This type of transaction is henceforth +called Peer-to-Peer (or P2P). However, there are a number of issues that +make P2P transactions tricky to do in a perfectly safe way. + +For PCIe the routing of Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs) is well-defined up +until they reach a host bridge or root port. If the path includes PCIe switches +then based on the ACS settings the transaction can route entirely within +the PCIe hierarchy and never reach the root port. The kernel will evaluate +the PCIe topology and always permit P2P in these well-defined cases. + +However, if the P2P transaction reaches the host bridge then it might have to +hairpin back out the same root port, be routed inside the CPU SOC to another +PCIe root port, or routed internally to the SOC. + +The PCIe specification doesn't define the forwarding of transactions between +hierarchy domains and kernel defaults to blocking such routing. There is an +allow list to allow detecting known-good HW, in which case P2P between any +two PCIe devices will be permitted. + +Since P2P inherently is doing transactions between two devices it requires two +drivers to be co-operating inside the kernel. The providing driver has to convey +its MMIO to the consuming driver. To meet the driver model lifecycle rules the +MMIO must have all DMA mapping removed, all CPU accesses prevented, all page +table mappings undone before the providing driver completes remove(). + +This requires the providing and consuming driver to actively work together to +guarantee that the consuming driver has stopped using the MMIO during a removal +cycle. This is done by either a synchronous invalidation shutdown or waiting +for all usage refcounts to reach zero. + +At the lowest level the P2P subsystem offers a naked struct p2p_provider that +delegates lifecycle management to the providing driver. It is expected that +drivers using this option will wrap their MMIO memory in DMABUF and use DMABUF +to provide an invalidation shutdown. These MMIO addresess have no struct page, and +if used with mmap() must create special PTEs. As such there are very few +kernel uAPIs that can accept pointers to them; in particular they cannot be used +with read()/write(), including O_DIRECT. + +Building on this, the subsystem offers a layer to wrap the MMIO in a ZONE_DEVICE +pgmap of MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA to create struct pages. The lifecycle of +pgmap ensures that when the pgmap is destroyed all other drivers have stopped +using the MMIO. This option works with O_DIRECT flows, in some cases, if the +underlying subsystem supports handling MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA through +FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA. The use of FOLL_LONGTERM is prevented. As this relies on pgmap +it also relies on architecture support along with alignment and minimum size +limitations. + + +Driver Writer's Guide +===================== + +In a given P2P implementation there may be three or more different +types of kernel drivers in play: + +* Provider - A driver which provides or publishes P2P resources like + memory or doorbell registers to other drivers. +* Client - A driver which makes use of a resource by setting up a + DMA transaction to or from it. +* Orchestrator - A driver which orchestrates the flow of data between + clients and providers. + +In many cases there could be overlap between these three types (i.e., +it may be typical for a driver to be both a provider and a client). + +For example, in the NVMe Target Copy Offload implementation: + +* The NVMe PCI driver is both a client, provider and orchestrator + in that it exposes any CMB (Controller Memory Buffer) as a P2P memory + resource (provider), it accepts P2P memory pages as buffers in requests + to be used directly (client) and it can also make use of the CMB as + submission queue entries (orchestrator). +* The RDMA driver is a client in this arrangement so that an RNIC + can DMA directly to the memory exposed by the NVMe device. +* The NVMe Target driver (nvmet) can orchestrate the data from the RNIC + to the P2P memory (CMB) and then to the NVMe device (and vice versa). + +This is currently the only arrangement supported by the kernel but +one could imagine slight tweaks to this that would allow for the same +functionality. For example, if a specific RNIC added a BAR with some +memory behind it, its driver could add support as a P2P provider and +then the NVMe Target could use the RNIC's memory instead of the CMB +in cases where the NVMe cards in use do not have CMB support. + + +Provider Drivers +---------------- + +A provider simply needs to register a BAR (or a portion of a BAR) +as a P2P DMA resource using :c:func:`pci_p2pdma_add_resource()`. +This will register struct pages for all the specified memory. + +After that it may optionally publish all of its resources as +P2P memory using :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_publish()`. This will allow +any orchestrator drivers to find and use the memory. When marked in +this way, the resource must be regular memory with no side effects. + +For the time being this is fairly rudimentary in that all resources +are typically going to be P2P memory. Future work will likely expand +this to include other types of resources like doorbells. + + +Client Drivers +-------------- + +A client driver only has to use the mapping API :c:func:`dma_map_sg()` +and :c:func:`dma_unmap_sg()` functions as usual, and the implementation +will do the right thing for the P2P capable memory. + + +Orchestrator Drivers +-------------------- + +The first task an orchestrator driver must do is compile a list of +all client devices that will be involved in a given transaction. For +example, the NVMe Target driver creates a list including the namespace +block device and the RNIC in use. If the orchestrator has access to +a specific P2P provider to use it may check compatibility using +:c:func:`pci_p2pdma_distance()` otherwise it may find a memory provider +that's compatible with all clients using :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_find()`. +If more than one provider is supported, the one nearest to all the clients will +be chosen first. If more than one provider is an equal distance away, the +one returned will be chosen at random (it is not an arbitrary but +truly random). This function returns the PCI device to use for the provider +with a reference taken and therefore when it's no longer needed it should be +returned with pci_dev_put(). + +Once a provider is selected, the orchestrator can then use +:c:func:`pci_alloc_p2pmem()` and :c:func:`pci_free_p2pmem()` to +allocate P2P memory from the provider. :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_alloc_sgl()` +and :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_free_sgl()` are convenience functions for +allocating scatter-gather lists with P2P memory. + +Struct Page Caveats +------------------- + +While the MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA pages can be installed in VMAs, +pin_user_pages() and related will not return them unless FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA is set. + +The MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA pages require care to support in the kernel. The +KVA is still MMIO and must still be accessed through the normal +readX()/writeX()/etc helpers. Direct CPU access (e.g. memcpy) is forbidden, just +like any other MMIO mapping. While this will actually work on some +architectures, others will experience corruption or just crash in the kernel. +Supporting FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA in a subsystem requires scrubbing it to ensure no CPU +access happens. + + +Usage With DMABUF +================= + +DMABUF provides an alternative to the above struct page-based +client/provider/orchestrator system and should be used when struct page +doesn't exist. In this mode the exporting driver will wrap +some of its MMIO in a DMABUF and give the DMABUF FD to userspace. + +Userspace can then pass the FD to an importing driver which will ask the +exporting driver to map it to the importer. + +In this case the initiator and target pci_devices are known and the P2P subsystem +is used to determine the mapping type. The phys_addr_t-based DMA API is used to +establish the dma_addr_t. + +Lifecycle is controlled by DMABUF move_notify(). When the exporting driver wants +to remove() it must deliver an invalidation shutdown to all DMABUF importing +drivers through move_notify() and synchronously DMA unmap all the MMIO. + +No importing driver can continue to have a DMA map to the MMIO after the +exporting driver has destroyed its p2p_provider. + + +P2P DMA Support Library +======================= + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/p2pdma.c + :export: |