Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] iommu/vt-d: Enable PASID only if device expects PASID in PRG Response.

From: Raj, Ashok
Date: Wed Feb 13 2019 - 13:10:49 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:26:33AM -0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> > index 1457f931218e..af2e4a011787 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> > @@ -1399,7 +1399,8 @@ static void iommu_enable_dev_iotlb(struct
> > device_domain_info *info)
> > undefined. So always enable PASID support on devices which
> > have it, even if we can't yet know if we're ever going to
> > use it. */
> > - if (info->pasid_supported && !pci_enable_pasid(pdev, info-
> > >pasid_supported & ~1))
> > + if (info->pasid_supported && pci_prg_resp_pasid_required(pdev)
> > &&
> > + !pci_enable_pasid(pdev, info->pasid_supported & ~1))
> > info->pasid_enabled = 1;
>
> Above logic looks problematic. As Dave commented in another thread,
> PRI and PASID are orthogonal capabilities. Especially with introduction
> of VT-d scalable mode, PASID will be used alone even w/o PRI...
>
> Why not doing the check when PRI is actually enabled? At that point
> you can fail the request if above condition is false.
>

That makes sense.