linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 12/24] powerpc/iommu/powernv: Release replaced TCE

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Message-ID: <20150204060822.GA8644@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:08:22 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/24] powerpc/iommu/powernv: Release replaced TCE

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 08:21:53PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment writing new TCE value to the IOMMU table fails with EBUSY
> if there is a valid entry already. However PAPR specification allows
> the guest to write new TCE value without clearing it first.
> 
> Another problem this patch is addressing is the use of pool locks for
> external IOMMU users such as VFIO. The pool locks are to protect
> DMA page allocator rather than entries and since the host kernel does
> not control what pages are in use, there is no point in pool locks and
> exchange()+put_page(oldtce) is sufficient to avoid possible races.
> 
> This adds an exchange() callback to iommu_table_ops which does the same
> thing as set() plus it returns replaced TCE(s) so the caller can release
> the pages afterwards.
> 
> This implements exchange() for IODA2 only. This adds a requirement
> for a platform to have exchange() implemented so from now on IODA2 is
> the only supported PHB for VFIO-SPAPR.
> 
> This replaces iommu_tce_build() and iommu_clear_tce() with
> a single iommu_tce_xchg().

[snip]

> @@ -294,8 +303,9 @@ static long tce_iommu_build(struct tce_container *container,
>  
>  		hva = (unsigned long) page_address(page) +
>  			(tce & IOMMU_PAGE_MASK(tbl) & ~PAGE_MASK);
> +		oldtce = 0;
>  
> -		ret = iommu_tce_build(tbl, entry + 1, hva, direction);
> +		ret = iommu_tce_xchg(tbl, entry + i, hva, &oldtce, direction);

Is the change from entry + 1 to entry + i here an actual bug fix?
If so please mention it in the patch description.

Paul.
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