Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] iommu: Generalize default PCIe requester ID PASID

From: Jean-Philippe Brucker
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 10:47:37 EST


Hi Jacob,

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 01:32:20PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> PCIe Process address space ID (PASID) is used to tag DMA traffic, it
> provides finer grained isolation than requester ID (RID).
>
> For each RID, 0 is as a special PASID for the legacy DMA (without
> PASID), thus RID_PASID. This is universal across all architectures,
> therefore warranted to be declared in the common header.
> Noting that VT-d could support none-zero RID_PASID, but currently not
> used.
>
> By having a common RID_PASID, we can avoid conflicts between different
> use cases in the generic code. e.g. SVA and DMA API with PASIDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v6:
> - let SMMU code use the common RID_PASID macro
> ---
> .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c | 2 +-
> drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 10 ++++----
> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 24 +++++++++----------
> drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c | 2 +-
> drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.h | 1 -
> include/linux/iommu.h | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c
> index a5a63b1c947e..160b31e6239d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ arm_smmu_share_asid(struct mm_struct *mm, u16 asid)
> * be some overlap between use of both ASIDs, until we invalidate the
> * TLB.
> */
> - arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc(smmu_domain, 0, cd);
> + arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc(smmu_domain, IOMMU_DEF_RID_PASID, cd);

I agree with reserving 0 globally for non-PASID DMA, but could we call
this something more generic, like IOMMU_NO_PASID? The term "RID_PASID" is
specific to VT-d and "RID" to PCI, so it looks confusing here (this driver
also supports non-PCI). "NO_PASID" would be clearer to someone just trying
to follow this driver code.

Thanks,
Jean