Re: [PATCH 0/3] intel-iommu: fix mapping PSI missing for iommu_map()

From: Peter Xu
Date: Wed Apr 18 2018 - 00:46:55 EST


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:41:27PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> (PSI stands for: Page Selective Invalidations)
>
> Intel IOMMU has the caching mode to ease emulation of the device.
> When that bit is set, we need to send PSIs even for newly mapped
> pages. However current driver is not fully obey the rule. E.g.,
> iommu_map() API will only do the mapping but it never sent the PSIs
> before. That can be problematic to emulated IOMMU devices since
> they'll never be able to build up the shadow page tables if without
> such information. This patchset tries to fix the problem.
>
> Patch 1 is a tracing enhancement that helped me to triage the problem.
> It might even be useful in the future.
>
> Patch 2 generalized a helper to notify the MAP PSIs.
>
> Patch 3 fixes the real problem by making sure every domain mapping
> will trigger the MAP PSI notifications.
>
> Without the patchset, nested device assignment (assign one device
> firstly to L1 guest, then to L2 guest) won't work for QEMU. After
> applying the patchset, it works.
>
> Please review. Thanks.
>
> Peter Xu (3):
> intel-iommu: add some traces for PSIs
> intel-iommu: generalize __mapping_notify_one()
> intel-iommu: fix iotlb psi missing for mappings
>
> drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 3 ++
> drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Adding CC to Alexander Witte and Jintack.

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Peter Xu