[PATCH RFC v5 0/6] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support shared Stream IDs

From: Peng Fan (OSS)

Date: Tue Oct 06 2026 - 08:15:03 EST


Changes since RFC v4:
- Include Nicolin's patch ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Don't rb_erase() a
never-inserted stream node") to avoid conflicts in future.
so the standalone patch 1 from v4 is dropped.
- Split old patch 2 (shared SID support) into two:
- New patch 2: Convert streams from embedded array to individually
allocated objects (struct arm_smmu_stream ** instead of *).
- New patch 3: Move stream allocation inside the mutex and look up
existing entries first (find-before-allocate), avoiding unnecessary
allocation when the SID already exists. Pure refactor, no
functional change.
- New patch 4: Add shared-SID logic on top of the refactored code.
- Duplicate-SID cleanup (bridged PCI) now uses pointer-equality dedup
instead of RB_EMPTY_NODE checks, since streams are no longer
pre-allocated with cleared nodes.
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261001-smmu-shared-sid-ver3-v4-0-06b34fb2e691@xxxxxxx/

Changes since RFC v3:
- Added a standalone bugfix for duplicate-SID rb_erase (new patch 1).
- Stream structures are now shared directly between masters
instead of duplicating them (Nicolin). No ref_count field;
sharing is detected via list_empty(&stream->shared_masters).
- On owner removal, use rb_replace_node() + list_splice_init()
to transfer the RB tree entry and shared_masters list to the
next sharer, avoiding use-after-free.
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&stream->shared_masters) moved after sort() to
avoid list pointer corruption from bitwise memory swaps.
- Both sides of the sharing pair are checked for num_streams == 1.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260930-smmu-shared-sid-v3-0-8abe6c1b4c20@xxxxxxx/

Changes since RFC v2:
- Dropped the RB tree to XArray conversion patch (Nicolin).
The RB tree is retained as-is; a new arm_smmu_find_stream()
helper provides stream-level lookup.
- No per-master shared_sid bool; replaced by
list_empty(&master->shared_masters_elm) (Nicolin).
- Only SID-sharing for single SID device
- Follow Nicolin's suggestion https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/arG6hmng3NddGEHm@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260921-smmu-shared-sid-v2-0-4b656ce68178@xxxxxxx/

Changes since RFC v1:
- Revised cover letter to drop eDMA channel example (Jason).

Some SoCs have a limited number of IOMMU Stream IDs (SIDs) and
hardware that inherently shares them. For example, the NXP i.MX95
only has 64 SIDs, only 6 bits for SID in the system chip bus.
However there are many device IPs, such as SDHC, PCIE, NETC, GPU,
NPU, Display, VPU, ISP, ISI, JPEG, SATA, DMA and etc. Each Kind IP has
mutilple instances inside the SoC. So I introudce this patchset to
support shared SID.

The current ARM SMMUv3 driver rejects this with:
"Aliasing StreamID unsupported, expect DMA to be broken"

I took comments in [1] and implement this patchset and only want to
support a very simple case that multiple platform devices share one SID.

Patch 1 converts the per-master streams array from an embedded array
of structs to an array of individually allocated pointers. This
prepares for subsequent patches where multiple masters will point
to the same stream object.

Patch 2 moves stream allocation from upfront into the mutex-protected
loop in arm_smmu_insert_master(), using a find-before-allocate pattern:
first look up whether the SID already exists in the RB tree, only
allocate and insert a new stream when no existing entry is found.
This is a pure refactor with no functional change.

Patch 3 adds shared-SID tracking so that when a second single-SID
master registers an already-owned SID, it joins the existing
stream rather than being rejected. The stream structure is shared
directly between masters via a linked list. On removal, a shared
master detaches from the list; the stream and its RB tree entry
are kept alive until the last master is removed.

Patch 4 places devices that share a SID into the same IOMMU
group, ensuring they share a single IOMMU domain (required
because one STE can only point to one cd_table).

Patch 5 wires up STE write ordering (first master writes, last
master tears down) and gates features that require unambiguous
SID-to-device mapping: SVA, IOPF/stall, and vSMMU nesting are
disabled for shared-SID masters.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/DU0PR04MB94172CB3F138AD39E9B6DEEF887F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
---
Nicolin Chen (1):
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Don't rb_erase() a never-inserted stream node

Peng Fan (5):
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allocate streams individually
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Delay stream allocation to inside the mutex
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support shared SIDs in insert/remove_master
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Group aliasing devices into the same IOMMU group
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Wire up shared-SID STE ordering and feature gating

.../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c | 4 +-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c | 3 +
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 236 +++++++++++++++------
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 5 +-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/tegra241-cmdqv.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: dceac7e589200a458860830d783b90dfd471691f
change-id: 20260916-smmu-shared-sid-e488f6c4d4f0

Best regards,
--
Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>