Hi all,
I'm current working on a research project to virtualize an HSA compliant system. In particular, I am attempting to allow multiple guest OSes to share the resources in an HSA system. The implementation is based on KVM. My work has been blocked by one problem, and I was hoping any of you may help me out.
For this project, I need to enable IOMMU's two-stage (guest virtual -> guest physical -> machine physical) address translation. When I turned on IOMMU's two-stage address translation (I set the page table for stage 1&2 properly) and run an HSA sample program on the guest OS. However, IO_PAGE_FAULTs showed up in log and the faulting address is the same as physical address of cik_mqd created in init_mqd during KFD_IOC_CREATE_QUEUE ioctl. With some additional tracing study, surveys and discussion with AMD engineers, I found that there are two HW components to carry out address translation for GPU: GPUVM and IOMMU.
Here are my questions:
1. Is cik_mqd translated by GPUVM?
I made this guess since gart_mqd_addr is assigned to pm4_packet in the pm_create_map_queue.
2. Will GPUVM go through two-stage address translation when IOMMU is enable to do two-stage address translation?
I assume GPUVM translates cik_mqd since mqd_gart_addr is set in the pm_create_map_queue, and it ends up translating to physical address of cik_mqd. With two-stage translation enabled, GPUVM takes the physical address of cik_mqd as input of the 2nd-stage. This causes translation fault because it is already a physical address. I guess this is why I got the IO_PAGE_FAULT.
3. Can I set GPUVM to do one-stage address translation while IOMMU is doing two-stage address translation?
4. Can cik_mqd be translated by IOMMU rather than GPUVM?
Could you please give me some advices or and a pointer that I should follow to continue my work? Your help or advise will be deeply appreciated.
Thanks!