Hi Jean-Philippe,

I realise it's a bit late for a "review", but digging up the original patch seemed as good a place as any to raise this...

On 17/04/2019 19:24, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
[...]
@@ -1740,6 +1906,9 @@ static void arm_smmu_detach_dev(struct arm_smmu_master 
*master)
master->domain = NULL;
        arm_smmu_install_ste_for_dev(master);
+
+       /* Disabling ATS invalidates all ATC entries */
+       arm_smmu_disable_ats(master);
  }

Is that actually true? I had initially overlooked this entirely while diagnosing something else and thought that we were missing any ATC invalidation on detach at all, but even having looked again I'm not entirely convinced it's bulletproof.

Firstly, the ATS spec only seems to say that *enabling* the ATS capability invalidates all ATC entries, although I think any corner cases that that alone opens up should be at best theoretical. More importantly though, pci_disable_ats() might not actually touch the capability - given that, it seems possible to move a VF to a new domain, and if it's not reset, end up preserving now-bogus ATC entries despite the old domain being torn down and freed. Do we need an explicit ATC invalidation here to be 100% safe, or is there something else I'm missing?

Robin.
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