On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 01:08:41PM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
> On 7/2/25 6:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 01:02:22PM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
> > > This test allows to document and exercise device passthrough, using a
> > > nested virtual machine setup. Two disks are generated and passed to the
> > > VM, and their content is compared to original images.
> > >
> > > Guest and nested guests commands are executed through two scripts, and
> > > init used in both system is configured to trigger a kernel panic in case
> > > any command fails. This is more reliable and readable than executing all
> > > commands through prompt injection and trying to guess what failed.
> > >
> > > Initially, this test was supposed to test smmuv3 nested emulation
> > > (combining both stages of translation), but I could not find any setup
> > > (kernel + vmm) able to do the passthrough correctly, despite several
> > > tries.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > tests/functional/meson.build | 2 +
> > > .../test_aarch64_device_passthrough.py | 142 ++++++++++++++++++
> > > 2 files changed, 144 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100755 tests/functional/test_aarch64_device_passthrough.py
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tests/functional/meson.build b/tests/functional/meson.build
> > > index 3021928a9d4..6cc78abb123 100644
> > > --- a/tests/functional/meson.build
> > > +++ b/tests/functional/meson.build
> > > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ endif
> > > test_timeouts = {
> > > 'aarch64_aspeed_ast2700' : 600,
> > > 'aarch64_aspeed_ast2700fc' : 600,
> > > + 'aarch64_device_passthrough' : 720,
> > > 'aarch64_imx8mp_evk' : 240,
> > > 'aarch64_raspi4' : 480,
> > > 'aarch64_reverse_debug' : 180,
> > > @@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ tests_aarch64_system_quick = [
> > > tests_aarch64_system_thorough = [
> > > 'aarch64_aspeed_ast2700',
> > > 'aarch64_aspeed_ast2700fc',
> > > + 'aarch64_device_passthrough',
> > > 'aarch64_imx8mp_evk',
> > > 'aarch64_raspi3',
> > > 'aarch64_raspi4',
> > > diff --git a/tests/functional/test_aarch64_device_passthrough.py
> > > b/tests/functional/test_aarch64_device_passthrough.py
> > > new file mode 100755
> > > index 00000000000..1f3f158a9ff
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/tests/functional/test_aarch64_device_passthrough.py
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
> > > +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> > > +#
> > > +# Boots a nested guest and compare content of a device (passthrough) to a
> > > +# reference image. Both vfio group and iommufd passthrough methods are
> > > tested.
> > > +#
> > > +# Copyright (c) 2025 Linaro Ltd.
> > > +#
> > > +# Author: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org>
> > > +#
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> > > +
> > > +import os
> > > +
> > > +from qemu_test import QemuSystemTest, Asset
> > > +from qemu_test import exec_command, wait_for_console_pattern
> > > +from qemu_test import exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern
> > > +from random import randbytes
> > > +
> > > +guest_script = '''
> > > +#!/usr/bin/env bash
> > > +
> > > +set -euo pipefail
> > > +set -x
> > > +
> > > +# find disks from nvme serial
> > > +dev_vfio=$(lsblk --nvme | grep vfio | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
> > > +dev_iommufd=$(lsblk --nvme | grep iommufd | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
> > > +pci_vfio=$(basename $(readlink -f /sys/block/$dev_vfio/../../../))
> > > +pci_iommufd=$(basename $(readlink -f /sys/block/$dev_iommufd/../../../))
> > > +
> > > +# bind disks to vfio
> > > +for p in "$pci_vfio" "$pci_iommufd"; do
> > > + if [ "$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/$p/driver_override)" == vfio-pci ];
> > > then
> > > + continue
> > > + fi
> > > + echo $p > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/nvme/unbind
> > > + echo vfio-pci > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$p/driver_override
> > > + echo $p > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind
> > > +done
> > > +
> > > +# boot nested guest and execute /host/nested_guest.sh
> > > +# one disk is passed through vfio group, the other, through iommufd
> > > +qemu-system-aarch64 \
> > > +-M virt \
> > > +-display none \
> > > +-serial stdio \
> > > +-cpu host \
> > > +-enable-kvm \
> > > +-m 1G \
> > > +-kernel /host/Image.gz \
> > > +-drive format=raw,file=/host/guest.ext4,if=virtio \
> > > +-append "root=/dev/vda init=/init -- bash /host/nested_guest.sh" \
> > > +-virtfs
> > > local,path=/host,mount_tag=host,security_model=mapped,readonly=off \
> > > +-device vfio-pci,host=$pci_vfio \
> > > +-object iommufd,id=iommufd0 \
> > > +-device vfio-pci,host=$pci_iommufd,iommufd=iommufd0
> > > +'''
> > > +
> > > +nested_guest_script = '''
> > > +#!/usr/bin/env bash
> > > +
> > > +set -euo pipefail
> > > +set -x
> > > +
> > > +image_vfio=/host/disk_vfio
> > > +image_iommufd=/host/disk_iommufd
> > > +
> > > +dev_vfio=$(lsblk --nvme | grep vfio | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
> > > +dev_iommufd=$(lsblk --nvme | grep iommufd | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
> > > +
> > > +# compare if devices are identical to original images
> > > +diff $image_vfio /dev/$dev_vfio
> > > +diff $image_iommufd /dev/$dev_iommufd
> > > +
> > > +echo device_passthrough_test_ok
> > > +'''
> > > +
> > > +class Aarch64DevicePassthrough(QemuSystemTest):
> > > +
> > > + # https://github.com/pbo-linaro/qemu-linux-stack
> > > + #
> > > + # Linux kernel is compiled with defconfig +
> > > + # IOMMUFD + VFIO_DEVICE_CDEV + ARM_SMMU_V3_IOMMUFD
> > > + # https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/vfio.html#vfio-device-cde
> > > + ASSET_DEVICE_PASSTHROUGH_STACK = Asset(
> > > + ('https://fileserver.linaro.org/s/fx5DXxBYme8dw2G/'
> > > + 'download/device_passthrough.tar.xz'),
> > > +
> > > '812750b664d61c2986f2b149939ae28cafbd60d53e9c7e4b16e97143845e196d')
> > > +
> > > + # This tests the device passthrough implementation, by booting a VM
> > > + # supporting it with two nvme disks attached, and launching a nested
> > > VM
> > > + # reading their content.
> > > + def test_aarch64_device_passthrough(self):
> > > + self.set_machine('virt')
> > > + self.require_accelerator('tcg')
> > > +
> > > + self.vm.set_console()
> > > +
> > > + stack_path_tar_gz = self.ASSET_DEVICE_PASSTHROUGH_STACK.fetch()
> > > + self.archive_extract(stack_path_tar_gz, format="tar")
> > > +
> > > + stack = self.scratch_file('out')
> > > + kernel = os.path.join(stack, 'Image.gz')
> > > + rootfs_host = os.path.join(stack, 'host.ext4')
> > > + disk_vfio = os.path.join(stack, 'disk_vfio')
> > > + disk_iommufd = os.path.join(stack, 'disk_iommufd')
> > > + guest_cmd = os.path.join(stack, 'guest.sh')
> > > + nested_guest_cmd = os.path.join(stack, 'nested_guest.sh')
> >
> > Don't incrementally create paths like this - use the
> > 'scratch_file' method for all components
> >
> > ie
> >
> > kernel = self.scratch_file('out', 'Image.gz')
> > rootfs_host = self.scratch_file('out', 'host.ext4')
> > ...etc...
> >
>
> May I ask what's the benefit of this?
>
> It forces you to repeat full path (luckily short in this case), but I don't
> see the difference with simply joining paths.
The intent is to eliminate use of os.path.* in general, such that instead
of passing around strings, we can eventually pass around pathlib.Path
objects.
With regards,
Daniel
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