linux-kernel - [question] Assign multiple devices from different SMMUs to a arm_smmu

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:41:52 +0800
From:   Kunkun Jiang <jiangkunkun@...wei.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Linux IOMMU" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com>, Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        "Keqian Zhu" <zhukeqian1@...wei.com>
Subject: [question] Assign multiple devices from different SMMUs to a
 arm_smmu_domain

Hi all,

I am working on VFIO DMA dirty pages tracking based on ARM SMMU HTTU,
and have done a lot of testing.In the test, I found a problem that 
greatly affects
performance of VFIO DMA dirty pages tracking.

According to the current arm-smmu-v3 driver, multiple VFIO pass-through
device comes from different SMMUs will be assigned to different
arm_smmu_domain. It will create page table for each arm_smmu_domain,
even though these page tables are exactly the same. Bacause dirty pages
tracking needs to traverse the page table, multiple page tables will make
performance worse.

I learned the ARM SMMUv3 spec and had some exchanges with my colleagues
who work on SMMU hardware. I did not find the restriction that multiple
SMMUs cannot share the same page table. We migth be able to do this like
x86 IOMMU. If I have missed something, please point it out.

Looking forward to your suggestions.😁

Thanks,
Kunkun Jiang