linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Remove caching mode check before device TLB flush

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:38:35 +0800
From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To: iommu@...ts.linux.dev
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
	Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Remove caching mode check before device TLB flush

The Caching Mode (CM) of the Intel IOMMU indicates if the hardware
implementation caches not-present or erroneous translation-structure
entries except for the first-stage translation. The caching mode is
irrelevant to the device TLB, therefore there is no need to check it
before a device TLB invalidation operation.

Remove two caching mode checks before device TLB invalidation in the
driver. The removal of these checks doesn't change the driver's behavior
in critical map/unmap paths. Hence, there is no functionality or
performance impact, especially since commit <29b32839725f> ("iommu/vt-d:
Do not use flush-queue when caching-mode is on") has already disabled
flush-queue for caching mode. Therefore, caching mode will never call
intel_flush_iotlb_all().

Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>
---
 drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Change log:
v3:
 - It turned out that the removals don't change the driver's behavior,
   hence change it from a fix patch to a cleanup one.
 - No functionality changes.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240410055823.264501-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/
 - Squash two patches into a single one.
 - No functionality changes.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20240407144232.190355-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com/

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
index a7ecd90303dc..f0a67e9d9faf 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
@@ -1501,11 +1501,7 @@ static void iommu_flush_iotlb_psi(struct intel_iommu *iommu,
 	else
 		__iommu_flush_iotlb_psi(iommu, did, pfn, pages, ih);
 
-	/*
-	 * In caching mode, changes of pages from non-present to present require
-	 * flush. However, device IOTLB doesn't need to be flushed in this case.
-	 */
-	if (!cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap) || !map)
+	if (!map)
 		iommu_flush_dev_iotlb(domain, addr, mask);
 }
 
@@ -1579,8 +1575,7 @@ static void intel_flush_iotlb_all(struct iommu_domain *domain)
 			iommu->flush.flush_iotlb(iommu, did, 0, 0,
 						 DMA_TLB_DSI_FLUSH);
 
-		if (!cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap))
-			iommu_flush_dev_iotlb(dmar_domain, 0, MAX_AGAW_PFN_WIDTH);
+		iommu_flush_dev_iotlb(dmar_domain, 0, MAX_AGAW_PFN_WIDTH);
 	}
 
 	if (dmar_domain->nested_parent)
-- 
2.34.1