linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] iommu/intel: Avoid SAC address trick for PCIe devices

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Message-ID: <20200708122601.GB19619@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:26:01 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     joro@...tes.org, hch@....de, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        jonathan.lemon@...il.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com,
        dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iommu/intel: Avoid SAC address trick for PCIe
 devices

Looks pretty sensible.

> -	if (!dmar_forcedac && dma_mask > DMA_BIT_MASK(32)) {
> +	if (!dmar_forcedac && dma_mask > DMA_BIT_MASK(32) &&
> +	    dev_is_pci(dev) && !pci_is_pcie(to_pci_dev(dev))) {

The only thing I wonder is if it is worth to add a little helper
for this check, but with everything moving to dma-iommu that might
not be needed.

Btw, does anyone know what the status of the intel-iommu conversion
to dma-iommu is?