RE: [PATCH v2 2/4] iommu/amd: Do not convert IVMD exclusion range to unity range
From: Adrian Huang12
Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 05:29:01 EST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2026 5:22 PM
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: joro@xxxxxxxxxx; jon.grimm@xxxxxxx; vasant.hegde@xxxxxxx;
> frank.gorishek@xxxxxxx; thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx;
> santosh.shukla@xxxxxxx; Suravee Suthikulpanit
> <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>; Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>; Adrian
> Huang12 <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [External] [PATCH v2 2/4] iommu/amd: Do not convert IVMD exclusion
> range to unity range
>
> Original problem was there could be multiple IVMD exclusion entries
> conflicting over a single exclusion range supported in older Linux kernel. The
> fix was first introduced in commit 387caf0b759a ("iommu/amd:
> Treat per-device exclusion ranges as r/w unity-mapped regions") and in
> commit 0bbe4ced53e3 ("iommu/amd: Fix the overwritten field in IVMD
> header") , where IVMD exclusions are converted to separate unity_map_entry
> objects in pci_seg->unity_map so amd_iommu_get_resv_regions() treated
> every such entry as IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT with R/W.
>
> Since the AMD IOMMU driver no longer support the Exclusion Range
> base/limit registers and rely on Linux kernel to exclude the specified IOVA
> ranges from being mapped this logic is no longer needed.
>
> Remove the special case that forced e->prot to RW-UNITY mapping (i.e.
> IVMD_FLAG_IW | IVMD_FLAG_IR | IVMD_FLAG_UNITY) whenever
> IVMD_FLAG_EXCL_RANGE was set.
>
> Fixes: 0bbe4ced53e3 ("iommu/amd: Fix the overwritten field in IVMD
> header")
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/amd/init.c | 10 ----------
> 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c b/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c index
> 866249d3673e..2e854f4639a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c
> @@ -2644,16 +2644,6 @@ static int __init init_unity_map_range(struct
> ivmd_header *m,
> e->address_end = e->address_start + PAGE_ALIGN(m->range_length);
> e->prot = m->flags >> 1;
>
> - /*
> - * Treat per-device exclusion ranges as r/w unity-mapped regions
> - * since some buggy BIOSes might lead to the overwritten exclusion
> - * range (exclusion_start and exclusion_length members). This
> - * happens when there are multiple exclusion ranges (IVMD entries)
> - * defined in ACPI table.
> - */
> - if (m->flags & IVMD_FLAG_EXCL_RANGE)
> - e->prot = (IVMD_FLAG_IW | IVMD_FLAG_IR) >> 1;
> -
> DUMP_printk("%s devid_start: %04x:%02x:%02x.%x devid_end: "
> "%04x:%02x:%02x.%x range_start: %016llx range_end:
> %016llx"
> " flags: %x\n", s, m->pci_seg,
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>