Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] iommu: Add DOMAIN_ATTR_MSI_MAPPING attribute

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Fri Apr 22 2016 - 07:31:14 EST


On 20/04/16 16:58, Eric Auger wrote:
Hi Robin,
On 04/20/2016 02:47 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
Hi Eric,

On 19/04/16 17:56, Eric Auger wrote:
Introduce a new DOMAIN_ATTR_MSI_MAPPING domain attribute. If supported,
this means the MSI addresses need to be mapped in the IOMMU.

x86 IOMMUs typically don't expose the attribute since on x86, MSI write
transaction addresses always are within the 1MB PA region [FEE0_0000h -
FEF0_000h] window which directly targets the APIC configuration space and
hence bypass the sMMU. On ARM and PowerPC however MSI transactions are
conveyed through the IOMMU.

What's stopping us from simply inferring this from the domain's IOMMU
not advertising interrupt remapping capabilities?
My current understanding is it is not possible:
on x86 CAP_INTR_REMAP is not systematically exposed (the feature can be
disabled) and MSIs are never mapped in the IOMMU I think.

Not sure I follow - if the feature is disabled such that the IOMMU doesn't isolate MSIs, then it's no different a situation from the SMMU, no?

My point was that this logic:

if (IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP)
we're good
else if (DOMAIN_ATTR_MSI_MAPPING)
if (acquire_msi_remapping_resources(domain))
we're good
else
oh no!
else
oh no!

should be easily reducible to this:

if (IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP)
we're good
else if (acquire_msi_remapping_resources(domain))
we're good
else
oh no! // Don't care whether the domain ran out of
// resources or simply doesn't support it,
// either way we can't proceed.

Robin.

Best Regards

Eric

Robin.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

v4 -> v5:
- introduce the user in the next patch

RFC v1 -> v1:
- the data field is not used
- for this attribute domain_get_attr simply returns 0 if the MSI_MAPPING
capability if needed or <0 if not.
- removed struct iommu_domain_msi_maps
---
include/linux/iommu.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
index 62a5eae..b3e8c5b 100644
--- a/include/linux/iommu.h
+++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ enum iommu_attr {
DOMAIN_ATTR_FSL_PAMU_ENABLE,
DOMAIN_ATTR_FSL_PAMUV1,
DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING, /* two stages of translation */
+ DOMAIN_ATTR_MSI_MAPPING, /* Require MSIs mapping in iommu */
DOMAIN_ATTR_MAX,
};