Re: [PATCH v11 09/11] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Retain CR0_SMMUEN during kdump device reset

From: John Garry

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 13:00:02 EST


On 10/5/26 20:30, Nicolin Chen wrote:
+ /*
+ * In a kdump case (set when CR0_SMMUEN=1 and !GERROR_SFM_ERR), retain
+ * all the live CR0 fields, e.g. CR0_SMMUEN to avoid aborting in-flight
+ * DMA and CR0_ATSCHK to carry on the ATS-check policy, while clearing
+ * only the queue enable bits for this kernel to take over the queues.
+ *
+ * According to spec, updating STRTAB_BASE/CR1/CR2 when CR0_SMMUEN=1 is
+ * CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE. So, skip those register updates and rely
+ * on the adopted stream table from the crashed kernel.
+ */
+ if (smmu->options & ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT) {
+ dev_info(smmu->dev,
+ "kdump: retaining SMMUEN for in-flight DMA\n");
+ enables = reg & ~(CR0_CMDQEN | CR0_EVTQEN | CR0_PRIQEN);
+ goto reset_queues;

nit: Is there some reason to separate the call to arm_smmu_write_reg_sync() under the ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT check, below?

+ }
+
+ /* Clear CR0 and sync (disables SMMU and queue processing) */
if (reg & CR0_SMMUEN) {
dev_warn(smmu->dev, "SMMU currently enabled! Resetting...\n");
arm_smmu_update_gbpa(smmu, GBPA_ABORT, 0);
@@ -5181,12 +5199,41 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_reset(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
/* Stream table */
arm_smmu_write_strtab(smmu);
+reset_queues:
+ if (smmu->options & ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP_ADOPT) {
> + /*> + * Disable queues since arm_smmu_device_disable() was skipped.
+ * CR0 fields are independent per spec, so the queue enable bits
+ * can be cleared while retaining SMMUEN=1.
+ */
+ ret = arm_smmu_write_reg_sync(smmu, enables, ARM_SMMU_CR0,
+ ARM_SMMU_CR0ACK);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(smmu->dev, "failed to disable queues\n");
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }