Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] iommu/vt-d: Require DMA domain if hardware not support passthrough

From: Jerry Snitselaar
Date: Wed Aug 14 2024 - 12:13:35 EST


On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:39:35AM GMT, Lu Baolu wrote:
> The iommu core defines the def_domain_type callback to query the iommu
> driver about hardware capability and quirks. The iommu driver should
> declare IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA requirement for hardware lacking pass-through
> capability.
>
> Earlier VT-d hardware implementations did not support pass-through
> translation mode. The iommu driver relied on a paging domain with all
> physical system memory addresses identically mapped to the same IOVA
> to simulate pass-through translation before the def_domain_type was
> introduced and it has been kept until now. It's time to adjust it now
> to make the Intel iommu driver follow the def_domain_type semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> index 9ff8b83c19a3..90ad794a1be7 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> @@ -2149,6 +2149,16 @@ static bool device_rmrr_is_relaxable(struct device *dev)
>
> static int device_def_domain_type(struct device *dev)
> {
> + struct device_domain_info *info = dev_iommu_priv_get(dev);
> + struct intel_iommu *iommu = info->iommu;
> +
> + /*
> + * Hardware does not support the passthrough translation mode.
> + * Always use a dynamaic mapping domain.
> + */
> + if (!ecap_pass_through(iommu->ecap))
> + return IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA;
> +
> if (dev_is_pci(dev)) {
> struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>