linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/11] iommu/vt-d: Add custom allocator for IOASID

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Message-ID: <e950cde8-8cd9-6089-c833-23d2ffb539d1@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:39:23 +0800
From:   Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/11] iommu/vt-d: Add custom allocator for IOASID

Hi,

On 10/25/19 2:40 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>>> ioasid_register_allocator(&iommu->pasid_allocator);
>>>> +			if (ret) {
>>>> +				pr_warn("Custom PASID allocator
>>>> registeration failed\n");
>>>> +				/*
>>>> +				 * Disable scalable mode on this
>>>> IOMMU if there
>>>> +				 * is no custom allocator. Mixing
>>>> SM capable vIOMMU
>>>> +				 * and non-SM vIOMMU are not
>>>> supported.
>>>> +				 */
>>>> +				intel_iommu_sm = 0;
>>> It's insufficient to disable scalable mode by only clearing
>>> intel_iommu_sm. The DMA_RTADDR_SMT bit in root entry has already
>> been
>>> set. Probably, you need to
>>>
>>> for each iommu
>>> 	clear DMA_RTADDR_SMT in root entry
>>>
>>> Alternatively, since vSVA is the only customer of this custom PASID
>>> allocator, is it possible to only disable SVA here?
>>>
>> Yeah, I think disable SVA is better. We can still do gIOVA in SM. I
>> guess we need to introduce a flag for sva_enabled.
> I'm not sure whether tying above logic to SVA is the right approach.
> If vcmd interface doesn't work, the whole SM mode doesn't make
> sense which is based on PASID-granular protection (SVA is only one
> usage atop). If the only remaining usage of SM is to map gIOVA using
> reserved PASID#0, then why not disabling SM and just fallback to
> legacy mode?
> 
> Based on that I prefer to disabling the SM mode completely (better
> through an interface), and move the logic out of CONFIG_INTEL_
> IOMMU_SVM
> 

Unfortunately, it is dangerous to disable SM after boot. SM uses
different root/device contexts and pasid table formats. Disabling SM
after boot requires changing above from SM format into legacy format.

Since ioasid registration failure is a rare case. How about moving this
part of code up to the early stage of intel_iommu_init() and returning
error if hardware present vcmd capability but software fails to register
a custom ioasid allocator?

Best regards,
baolu