Re: [PATCH 1/4] iommu/vt-d: Add a fix for devices need extra dtlb flush

[Baolu Lu]

On 2022/12/1 12:01, Lu Baolu wrote:
> From: Jacob Pan<jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> QAT devices on Intel Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids have a defect in
> address translation service (ATS). These devices may inadvertently issue
> ATS invalidation completion before posted writes initiated with
> translated address that utilized translations matching the invalidation
> address range, violating the invalidation completion ordering.
>
> This patch adds an extra device TLB invalidation for the affected devices,
> it is needed to ensure no more posted writes with translated address
> following the invalidation completion. Therefore, the ordering is
> preserved and data-corruption is prevented.
>
> Device TLBs are invalidated under the following six conditions:
> 1. Device driver does DMA API unmap IOVA
> 2. Device driver unbind a PASID from a process, sva_unbind_device()
> 3. PASID is torn down, after PASID cache is flushed. e.g. process
> exit_mmap() due to crash
> 4. Under SVA usage, called by mmu_notifier.invalidate_range() where
> VM has to free pages that were unmapped
> 5. userspace driver unmaps a DMA buffer
> 6. Cache invalidation in vSVA usage (upcoming)
>
> For #1 and #2, device drivers are responsible for stopping DMA traffic
> before unmap/unbind. For #3, iommu driver gets mmu_notifier to
> invalidate TLB the same way as normal user unmap which will do an extra
> invalidation. The dTLB invalidation after PASID cache flush does not
> need an extra invalidation.
>
> Therefore, we only need to deal with #4 and #5 in this patch. #1 is also
> covered by this patch due to common code path with #5.
>
> Tested-by: Yuzhang Luo<yuzhang.luo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj<ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian<kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>

This missed cc stable tag.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.15+

Sorry for the inconvenience.

> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan<jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link:https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221130062449.1360063-1-jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu<baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h |  4 +++
>   drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c   |  5 ++-
>   3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Best regards,
baolu