linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/vt-d: Use device rbtree in iopf reporting path

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:31:08 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
	Huang Jiaqing <jiaqing.huang@...el.com>,
	Ethan Zhao <haifeng.zhao@...ux.intel.com>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/vt-d: Use device rbtree in iopf reporting path

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 03:02:00PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> A device hot removing goes through at least the following steps:
> 
> - Disable PRI.
> - Drain all outstanding I/O page faults.
> - Stop DMA.
> - Unload the device driver.
> - Call iommu_release_device() upon the BUS_NOTIFY_REMOVED_DEVICE event.
> 
> This sequence ensures that a device cannot generate an I/O page fault
> after PRI has been disabled. So in reality it's impossible for a device
> to generate an I/O page fault before disabling PRI and then go through
> the long journey to reach iommu_release_device() before
> iopf_get_dev_fault_param() is called in page fault interrupt handling
> thread.

Why is this impossible? Seems like a classic race..

Flush the HW page fault queue as part of the above to ensure there is
no concurrent iopf_get_dev_fault_param() on the now PRI disabled BDF.

> Considering this behavior, adding a comment to the code explaining the
> sequence and removing put_device() may be a simpler solution?

A comment is definitely needed

Jason