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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 23:29:38 +0300
From: Laurentiu Tudor <tudor.laurentiu.oss@...il.com>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] PCI: imx6: Config look up table(LUT) to support
MSI ITS and IOMMU for i.MX95
On 5/31/24 17:58, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2024-05-31 12:08 am, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> [+cc IOMMU and pcie-apple.c folks for comment]
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:39:21PM -0400, Frank Li wrote:
>>> For the i.MX95, configuration of a LUT is necessary to convert Bus
>>> Device
>>> Function (BDF) to stream IDs, which are utilized by both IOMMU and ITS.
>>> This involves examining the msi-map and smmu-map to ensure consistent
>>> mapping of PCI BDF to the same stream IDs. Subsequently, LUT-related
>>> registers are configured. In the absence of an msi-map, the built-in MSI
>>> controller is utilized as a fallback.
>>>
>>> Additionally, register a PCI bus notifier to trigger
>>> imx_pcie_add_device()
>>> upon the appearance of a new PCI device and when the bus is an iMX6 PCI
>>> controller. This function configures the correct LUT based on Device
>>> Tree
>>> Settings (DTS).
>>
>> This scheme is pretty similar to apple_pcie_bus_notifier(). If we
>> have to do this, I wish it were *more* similar, i.e., copy the
>> function names, bitmap tracking, code structure, etc.
>>
>> I don't really know how stream IDs work, but I assume they are used on
>> most or all arm64 platforms, so I'm a little surprised that of all the
>> PCI host drivers used on arm64, only pcie-apple.c and pci-imx6.c need
>> this notifier.
>
> This is one of those things that's mostly at the mercy of the PCIe root
> complex implementation. Typically the SMMU StreamID and/or GIC ITS
> DeviceID is derived directly from the PCI RID, sometimes with additional
> high-order bits hard-wired to disambiguate PCI segments. I believe this
> RID-translation LUT is a particular feature of the the Synopsys IP - I
> know there's also one on the NXP Layerscape platforms, but on those it's
> programmed by the bootloader, which also generates the appropriate
> "msi-map" and "iommu-map" properties to match. Ideally that's what i.MX
> should do as well, but hey.
That's usually fine, except when SRIOV and/or hotplug devices (that is,
not discoverable at bootloader time) come into play. We came up with
this "solution" to cover these more dynamic scenarios.
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/2a5bbb13cc39102a68fcc31056925427ab44b591
---
Best Regards, Laurentiu
>> There's this path, which is pretty generic and does at least the
>> of_map_id() part of what you're doing in imx_pcie_add_device():
>>
>> __driver_probe_device
>> really_probe
>> pci_dma_configure #
>> pci_bus_type.dma_configure
>> of_dma_configure
>> of_dma_configure_id
>> of_iommu_configure
>> of_pci_iommu_init
>> of_iommu_configure_dev_id
>> of_map_id
>> of_iommu_xlate
>> ops = iommu_ops_from_fwnode
>> iommu_fwspec_init
>> ops->of_xlate(dev, iommu_spec)
>>
>> Maybe this needs to be extended somehow with a hook to do the
>> device-specific work like updating the LUT? Just speculating here,
>> the IOMMU folks will know how this is expected to work.
>
> Note that that particular code path has fundamental issues and much of
> it needs to go away (I'm working on it, but it's a rich ~8-year-old pile
> of technical debt...). IOMMU configuration needs to be happening at
> device_add() time via the IOMMU layer's own bus notifier.
>
> If it's really necessary to do this programming from Linux, then there's
> still no point in it being dynamic - the mappings cannot ever change,
> since the rest of the kernel believes that what the DT said at boot time
> was already a property of the hardware. It would be a lot more logical,
> and likely simpler, for the driver to just read the relevant map
> property and program the entire LUT to match, all in one go at
> controller probe time. Rather like what's already commonly done with the
> parsing of "dma-ranges" to program address-translation LUTs for inbound
> windows.
>
> Plus that would also give a chance of safely dealing with bad DTs
> specifying invalid ID mappings (by refusing to probe at all). As it is,
> returning an error from a child's BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE does nothing
> except prevent any further notifiers from running at that point - the
> device will still be added, allowed to bind a driver, and able to start
> sending DMA/MSI traffic without the controller being correctly
> programmed, which at best won't work and at worst may break the whole
> system.
>
> Thanks,
> Robin.
>
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