Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/dma: Avoid SAC address trick for PCIe devices

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jul 13 2020 - 09:14:31 EST


On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:32:42PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> As for the intel-iommu implementation, relegate the opportunistic
> attempt to allocate a SAC address to the domain of conventional PCI
> devices only, to avoid it increasingly causing far more performance
> issues than possible benefits on modern PCI Express systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> index 4959f5df21bd..0ff124f16ad4 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> @@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ static dma_addr_t iommu_dma_alloc_iova(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> dma_limit = min(dma_limit, (u64)domain->geometry.aperture_end);
>
> /* Try to get PCI devices a SAC address */
> - if (dma_limit > DMA_BIT_MASK(32) && dev_is_pci(dev))
> + if (dma_limit > DMA_BIT_MASK(32) &&
> + dev_is_pci(dev) && !pci_is_pcie(to_pci_dev(dev)))
> iova = alloc_iova_fast(iovad, iova_len,
> DMA_BIT_MASK(32) >> shift, false);
>

Unfortunatly this patch causes XHCI initialization failures on my AMD
Ryzen system. I will remove both from the IOMMU tree for now.

I guess the XHCI chip in my system does not support full 64bit dma
addresses and needs a quirk or something like that. But until this is
resolved its better to not change the IOVA allocation behavior.

Regards,

Joerg