Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: Notify on pte permission upgrades

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 06:05:41PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> 
> >> As no notification is sent and the SMMU does not snoop TLB invalidates
> >> it will continue to return read-only entries to a device even though
> >> the CPU page table contains a writable entry. This leads to a
> >> continually faulting device and no way of handling the fault.
> >
> > Doesn't the fault generate a PRI/etc? If we get a PRI maybe we should
> > just have the iommu driver push an iotlb invalidation command before
> > it acks it? PRI is already really slow so I'm not sure a pipelined
> > invalidation is going to be a problem? Does the SMMU architecture
> > permit negative caching which would suggest we need it anyhow?
> 
> Yes, SMMU architecture (which matches the ARM architecture in regards to
> TLB maintenance requirements) permits negative caching of some mapping
> attributes including the read-only attribute. Hence without the flushing
> we fault continuously.

Sounds like a straight up SMMU bug, invalidate the cache after
resolving the PRI event.

Jason