[PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk

From: Lu Baolu
Date: Thu Sep 25 2025 - 22:44:22 EST


Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU atomically updating the dirty bit
in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging-
structure memory must be coherent between the IOMMU and the CPU. In
another word, if the iommu page walk is incoherent, dirty page tracking
doesn't work.

The Intel VT-d specification, Section 3.10 "Snoop Behavior" states:

"Remapping hardware encountering the need to atomically update A/EA/D bits
in a paging-structure entry that is not snooped will result in a non-
recoverable fault."

To prevent an IOMMU from being incorrectly configured for dirty page
tracking when it is operating in an incoherent mode, mark SSADS as
supported only when both ecap_slads and ecap_smpwc are supported.

Fixes: f35f22cc760e ("iommu/vt-d: Access/Dirty bit support for SS domains")
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250924083447.123224-1-baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
index d09b92871659..2c261c069001 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
@@ -541,7 +541,8 @@ enum {
#define pasid_supported(iommu) (sm_supported(iommu) && \
ecap_pasid((iommu)->ecap))
#define ssads_supported(iommu) (sm_supported(iommu) && \
- ecap_slads((iommu)->ecap))
+ ecap_slads((iommu)->ecap) && \
+ ecap_smpwc(iommu->ecap))
#define nested_supported(iommu) (sm_supported(iommu) && \
ecap_nest((iommu)->ecap))

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