linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] iommu/vt-d: Use iommu_get_domain_for

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Message-ID: <20220531145301.GE1343366@nvidia.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 May 2022 11:53:01 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        Jacob jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] iommu/vt-d: Use iommu_get_domain_for_dev() in
 debugfs

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:11:18PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 2022/5/31 21:10, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:02:06AM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> > 
> > > For case 2, it is a bit weird. I tried to add a rwsem lock to make the
> > > iommu_unmap() and dumping tables in debugfs exclusive. This does not
> > > work because debugfs may depend on the DMA of the devices to work. It
> > > seems that what we can do is to allow this race, but when we traverse
> > > the page table in debugfs, we will check the validity of the physical
> > > address retrieved from the page table entry. Then, the worst case is to
> > > print some useless information.
> > 
> > Sounds horrible, don't you have locking around the IOPTEs of some
> > kind? How does updating them work reliably?
> 
> There's no locking around updating the IOPTEs. The basic assumption is
> that at any time, there's only a single thread manipulating the mappings
> of the range specified in iommu_map/unmap() APIs. Therefore, the race
> only exists when multiple ranges share some high-level IOPTEs. The IOMMU
> driver updates those IOPTEs using the compare-and-exchange atomic
> operation.

Oh? Did I miss where that was documented as part of the iommu API?

Daniel posted patches for VFIO to multi-thread iommu_domin mapping.

iommufd goes out of its way to avoid this kind of serialization so
that userspace can parallel map IOVA.

I think if this is the requirement then the iommu API needs to
provide a lock around the domain for the driver..

Jason