Alex Williamson wrote on 2013-12-24:
> David,
>
> Any comments on this patch? Thanks,
>
Hi Alex,
There do have some IOMMUs will treat SNP bit in the PTE as reserved (0) and
will cause a reserved field violation fault if it is set but hardware not
support snoop-control(bit 7 in ECAP_REG is 0). So your patch seems wrong to me.
> Alex
>
> On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:21 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> The setting of the SNP bit in the intel-iommu page tables should not
>> be dependent on the current capability of the iommu domain. The
>> current VT-d spec (2.2) indicates the SNP bit is "treated as
>> reserved[0] by hardware implementations not supporting Snoop Control".
>> Furthermore, section 3.7.3 indicates:
>>
>> If the Snoop Control (SC) field in extended capability Register is
>> reported as 0, snoop behavior for access to the page mapped through
>> second-level translation is determined by the no-snoop attribute in
>> the request.
>> This all seems to indicate that hardware incapable of Snoop Control
>> will handle the SNP bit as zero regardless of the value stored in
>> the PTE.
>>
>> The trouble with the current implementation is that mapping flags
>> depend on the state of the iommu domain at the time of the mapping,
>> yet no attempt is made to update existing mappings when the iommu
>> domain composition changes. This leaves the iommu domain in a state
>> where some mappings may enforce coherency, others do not, and the
>> user of the IOMMU API has no ability to later enable the desired
>> flags atomically with respect to DMA.
>>
>> If we always honor the IOMMU_CACHE flag then an IOMMU API user who
>> specifies IOMMU_CACHE for all mappings can assume that the coherency
>> of the mappings within a domain follow the coherency capability of
>> the domain itself.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
>> b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c index 15e9b57..c46c6a6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
>> @@ -4084,7 +4084,7 @@ static int intel_iommu_map(struct iommu_domain
> *domain,
>> prot |= DMA_PTE_READ;
>> if (iommu_prot & IOMMU_WRITE)
>> prot |= DMA_PTE_WRITE;
>> - if ((iommu_prot & IOMMU_CACHE) && dmar_domain->iommu_snooping)
>> + if (iommu_prot & IOMMU_CACHE)
>> prot |= DMA_PTE_SNP;
>>
>> max_addr = iova + size;
>
>
Best regards,
Yang
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