Re: [PATCH 0/8] Convert the intel iommu driver to the dma-iommu api

[Robin Murphy]

Hi Tom,

On 2019-12-21 15:03, Tom Murphy wrote:
> This patchset converts the intel iommu driver to the dma-iommu api.
>
> While converting the driver I exposed a bug in the intel i915 driver which causes a huge amount of artifacts on the screen of my laptop. You can see a picture of it here:
> https://github.com/pippy360/kernelPatches/blob/master/IMG_20191219_225922.jpg
>
> This issue is most likely in the i915 driver and is most likely caused by the driver not respecting the return value of the dma_map_ops::map_sg function. You can see the driver ignoring the return value here:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/7e0165b2f1a912a06e381e91f0f4e495f4ac3736/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_dmabuf.c#L51
>
> Previously this didn’t cause issues because the intel map_sg always returned the same number of elements as the input scatter gather list but with the change to this dma-iommu api this is no longer the case. I wasn’t able to track the bug down to a specific line of code unfortunately.
>
> Could someone from the intel team look at this?
>
>
> I have been testing on a lenovo x1 carbon 5th generation. Let me know if there’s any more information you need.
>
> To allow my patch set to be tested I have added a patch (patch 8/8) in this series to disable combining sg segments in the dma-iommu api which fixes the bug but it doesn't fix the actual problem.
>
> As part of this patch series I copied the intel bounce buffer code to the dma-iommu path. The addition of the bounce buffer code took me by surprise. I did most of my development on this patch series before the bounce buffer code was added and my reimplementation in the dma-iommu path is very rushed and not properly tested but I’m running out of time to work on this patch set.
>
> On top of that I also didn’t port over the intel tracing code from this commit:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b53034c268d550d9e8522e613a14ab53b8840d8#diff-6b3e7c4993f05e76331e463ab1fc87e1
> So all the work in that commit is now wasted. The code will need to be removed and reimplemented in the dma-iommu path. I would like to take the time to do this but I really don’t have the time at the moment and I want to get these changes out before the iommu code changes any more.

Further to what we just discussed at LPC, I've realised that tracepoints 
are actually something I could do with *right now* for debugging my Arm 
DMA ops series, so if I'm going to hack something up anyway I may as 
well take responsibility for polishing it into a proper patch as well :)

Robin.

> Tom Murphy (8):
>    iommu/vt-d: clean up 32bit si_domain assignment
>    iommu/vt-d: Use default dma_direct_* mapping functions for direct
>      mapped devices
>    iommu/vt-d: Remove IOVA handling code from non-dma_ops path
>    iommu: Handle freelists when using deferred flushing in iommu drivers
>    iommu: Add iommu_dma_free_cpu_cached_iovas function
>    iommu: allow the dma-iommu api to use bounce buffers
>    iommu/vt-d: Convert intel iommu driver to the iommu ops
>    DO NOT MERGE: iommu: disable list appending in dma-iommu
>
>   drivers/iommu/Kconfig           |   1 +
>   drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c       |  14 +-
>   drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c     |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c        |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c       | 183 +++++--
>   drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c    |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c     | 936 ++++----------------------------
>   drivers/iommu/iommu.c           |  39 +-
>   drivers/iommu/ipmmu-vmsa.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/msm_iommu.c       |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c       |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu_v1.c    |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/qcom_iommu.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c  |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c      |   3 +-
>   drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c    |   3 +-
>   drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c |   2 +-
>   include/linux/dma-iommu.h       |   3 +
>   include/linux/intel-iommu.h     |   1 -
>   include/linux/iommu.h           |  32 +-
>   23 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 908 deletions(-)