Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Match Stall behaviour for S2

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Fri Aug 30 2024 - 13:02:49 EST


On 30/08/2024 5:30 pm, Nicolin Chen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 11:03:47AM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
According to the spec (ARM IHI 0070 F.b), in
"5.5 Fault configuration (A, R, S bits)":
A STE with stage 2 translation enabled and STE.S2S == 0 is
considered ILLEGAL if SMMU_IDR0.STALL_MODEL == 0b10.

Also described in the pseudocode “SteIllegal()”
if STE.Config == '11x' then
[..]
if eff_idr0_stall_model == '10' && STE.S2S == '0' then
// stall_model forcing stall, but S2S == 0
return TRUE;

Which means, S2S must be set when stall model is
"ARM_SMMU_FEAT_STALL_FORCE", but currently the driver ignores that.

Although, the driver can do the minimum and only set S2S for
“ARM_SMMU_FEAT_STALL_FORCE”, it is more consistent to match S1
behaviour, which also sets it for “ARM_SMMU_FEAT_STALL” if the
master has requested stalls.

If I read the SteIllegal() correctly, it seems S2S would conflict
against the STE.EATS settings?

// Check ATS configuration
if ((sec_sid == SS_NonSecure && SMMU_IDR0.ATS == '1') ||
(sec_sid == SS_Realm && SMMU_R_IDR0.ATS == '1')) &&
STE.Config != 'x00' then
// Needs to be NS/Realm, ATS enabled, and not Bypass
if STE.EATS == '01' && STE.S2S == '1' then
// Full ATS mode
if STE.Config == '11x' || constr_unpred_EATS_S2S then
// if stage 2 enabled or CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE for SMMUv3.0
return TRUE;

So, if master->stall_enabled and master->ats_enabled, there would
be a bad STE?

Indeed, but as discussed previously, to get there would require either firmware or hardware to bogusly advertise both stall and ATS capabilities for the same device, which we decided is beyond the scope of what's worth trying to reason about. If a nonsensical system leads to obviously blowing up with C_BAD_STE, that's arguably not such a bad thing.

Thanks,
Robin.