On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:35:38 +0200 Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> wrote:
> here is a patch-set to extend the mmu_notifiers in the Linux > kernel to allow managing CPU external TLBs. Those TLBs may > be implemented in IOMMUs or any other external device, e.g. > ATS/PRI capable PCI devices. > > The problem with managing these TLBs are the semantics of > the invalidate_range_start/end call-backs currently > available. Currently the subsystem using mmu_notifiers has > to guarantee that no new TLB entries are established between > invalidate_range_start/end. Furthermore the > invalidate_range_start() function is called when all pages > are still mapped and invalidate_range_end() when the pages > are unmapped an already freed. > > So both call-backs can't be used to safely flush any non-CPU > TLB because _start() is called too early and _end() too > late. > > In the AMD IOMMUv2 driver this is currently implemented by > assigning an empty page-table to the external device between > _start() and _end(). But as tests have shown this doesn't > work as external devices don't re-fault infinitly but enter > a failure state after some time. > > Next problem with this solution is that it causes an > interrupt storm for IO page faults to be handled when an > empty page-table is assigned. > > To solve this situation I wrote a patch-set to introduce a > new notifier call-back: mmu_notifer_invalidate_range(). This > notifier lifts the strict requirements that no new > references are taken in the range between _start() and > _end(). When the subsystem can't guarantee that any new > references are taken is has to provide the > invalidate_range() call-back to clear any new references in > there. > > It is called between invalidate_range_start() and _end() > every time the VMM has to wipe out any references to a > couple of pages. This are usually the places where the CPU > TLBs are flushed too and where its important that this > happens before invalidate_range_end() is called. > > Any comments and review appreciated! It looks pretty simple and harmless. I assume the AMD IOMMUv2 driver actually uses this and it's all tested and good? What is the status of that driver? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
