On ARM systems, some platform devices behind an IOMMU may support stall, which is the ability to recover from page faults. Let the firmware tell us when a device supports stall.
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-phili...@linaro.org> --- .../devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt index 3c36334e4f94..26ba9e530f13 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt @@ -92,6 +92,24 @@ Optional properties: tagging DMA transactions with an address space identifier. By default, this is 0, which means that the device only has one address space. +- dma-can-stall: When present, the master can wait for a transaction to + complete for an indefinite amount of time. Upon translation fault some + IOMMUs, instead of aborting the translation immediately, may first + notify the driver and keep the transaction in flight. This allows the OS + to inspect the fault and, for example, make physical pages resident + before updating the mappings and completing the transaction. Such IOMMU + accepts a limited number of simultaneous stalled transactions before + having to either put back-pressure on the master, or abort new faulting + transactions. + + Firmware has to opt-in stalling, because most buses and masters don't + support it. In particular it isn't compatible with PCI, where + transactions have to complete before a time limit. More generally it + won't work in systems and masters that haven't been designed for + stalling. For example the OS, in order to handle a stalled transaction, + may attempt to retrieve pages from secondary storage in a stalled + domain, leading to a deadlock. + Notes: ====== -- 2.30.0 _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
