Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add arm-smmu-v3 support for instcfg data override feature

[Robin Murphy]

On 26/07/2026 2:16 pm, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 01:39:41PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > These two patches add support for a new "arm,instdata-override" DT property
> > that enables the override of the instruction/data attribute of incoming
> > traffic to Data by setting the INSTCFG override bits.
> >
> > It is intended to be specified when the smmu can't guarantee that these
> > attributes are provided correctly from the client device.
>
> This is going to need an in-tree user and a much more detailed
> description of what is being worked around before we consider this for
> inclusion.
>
> In particular, if a particular client is emitting data reads as
> instructions, then a better work around would be to avoid mapping its
> domains using IOMMU_NOEXEC. But I can't tell what's going on from the
> limited description provided here.

Unless it's also emitting the privileged bit and thus falling foul of 
the implicit Unpriv-W -> Priv-XN rule, but then we also have the means 
to deal with devices which actually do that themselves (hello pl330...), 
so that would seemingly only leave the case of some innocent piece of 
AMBA-interfaced IP which doesn't expect to need special attributes, but 
the system integrator has gone out of their way to tie the AxPROT bits 
to some wacky value, which I would put in "erratum workaround" territory.

Thanks,
Robin.