From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: <will@kernel.org>, <robin.murphy@arm.com>, <jgg@nvidia.com>,
<kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: <joro@8bytes.org>, <praan@google.com>, <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
<miko.lenczewski@arm.com>, <smostafa@google.com>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, <iommu@lists.linux.dev>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
<jamien@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH rc v2 0/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix device crash on kdump kernel
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:17:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1776286352.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com> (raw)
When transitioning to a kdump kernel, the primary kernel might have crashed
while endpoint devices were actively bus-mastering DMA. Currently, the SMMU
driver aggressively resets the hardware during probe by clearing CR0_SMMUEN
and setting the Global Bypass Attribute (GBPA) to ABORT.
In a kdump scenario, this aggressive reset is highly destructive:
a) If GBPA is set to ABORT, in-flight DMA will be aborted, generating fatal
PCIe AER or SErrors that may panic the kdump kernel
b) If GBPA is set to BYPASS, in-flight DMA targeting some IOVAs will bypass
the SMMU and corrupt the physical memory at those 1:1 mapped IOVAs.
To safely absorb in-flight DMA, the kdump kernel must leave SMMUEN=1 intact
and avoid modifying STRTAB_BASE. This allows HW to continue translating in-
flight DMA using the crashed kernel's page tables until the endpoint device
drivers probe and quiesce their respective hardware.
However, the ARM SMMUv3 architecture specification states that updating the
SMMU_STRTAB_BASE register while SMMUEN == 1 is UNPREDICTABLE or ignored.
This leaves a kdump kernel no choice but to adopt the stream table from the
crashed kernel.
In this series:
- Introduce an ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP
- Skip SMMUEN and STRTAB_BASE resets in arm_smmu_device_reset()
- Map the crashed kernel's stream tables into the kdump kernel [*]
- Defer any default domain attachment to retain STEs until device drivers
explicitly request it.
[*] This is implemented via memremap, which only works on a coherent SMMU.
Note that the entire series requires Jason's work that was merged in v6.12:
85196f54743d ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reorganize struct arm_smmu_strtab_cfg").
I have a backported version that is verified with a v6.8 kernel. I can send
if we see a strong need after this version is accepted.
This is on Github:
https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/smmuv3_kdump-v2
Changelog
v2
* Add warning in non-coherent SMMU cases
* Keep eventq/priq disabled v.s. enabling-and-disabling-later
* Check KDUMP option in the beginning of arm_smmu_device_reset()
* Validate STRTAB format matches HW capability instead of forcing flags
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1775763475.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com/
Nicolin Chen (5):
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_adopt_strtab() for kdump
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Implement is_attach_deferred() for kdump
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Retain CR0_SMMUEN during kdump device reset
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Skip EVTQ/PRIQ setup in kdump kernel
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Detect ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP in
arm_smmu_device_hw_probe()
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 1 +
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-15 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-15 21:17 Nicolin Chen [this message]
2026-04-15 21:17 ` [PATCH rc v2 1/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_adopt_strtab() for kdump Nicolin Chen
2026-04-24 16:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-24 18:33 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-04-24 20:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-25 0:56 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-04-15 21:17 ` [PATCH rc v2 2/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Implement is_attach_deferred() " Nicolin Chen
2026-04-24 16:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-24 18:44 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-04-24 20:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-15 21:17 ` [PATCH rc v2 3/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Retain CR0_SMMUEN during kdump device reset Nicolin Chen
2026-04-15 21:17 ` [PATCH rc v2 4/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Skip EVTQ/PRIQ setup in kdump kernel Nicolin Chen
2026-04-15 21:17 ` [PATCH rc v2 5/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Detect ARM_SMMU_OPT_KDUMP in arm_smmu_device_hw_probe() Nicolin Chen
2026-04-16 16:49 ` [PATCH rc v2 0/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix device crash on kdump kernel Robin Murphy
2026-04-16 17:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-17 7:48 ` Tian, Kevin
2026-04-17 11:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-23 20:02 ` Nicolin Chen
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