Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Use 1st-level for IOVA translation

[Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Yi,

Thanks for the comments.

On 12/20/19 7:50 PM, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> Hi Baolu,
> 
> In a brief, this version is pretty good to me. However, I still want
> to have the following checks to see if anything missed. Wish it
> helps.
> 
> 1) would using IOVA over FLPT default on?
> My opinion is that before we have got gIOVA nested translation
> done for passthru devices, we should make this feature as off.

No worry.

IOVA over first level is a sub-feature of scalable mode. Currently,
scalable mode is default off and we won't switch it on until all
features are done.

> 
> 2) the domain->agaw is somehow calculated according to the
> capabilities related to second level page table. As we are moving
> IOVA to FLPT, I'd suggest to calculate domain->agaw with the
> translation modes FLPT supports (e.g. 4 level and 5 level)

We merged first level and second level, hence the domain->agaw should be
selected for both. The only shortcoming of this is that it doesn't
support a 3-only second level in scalable mode. But I don't think we
have any chances to see such hardware.

> 
> 3) Per VT-d spec, FLPT has canonical requirement to the input
> addresses. So I'd suggest to add some enhance regards to it.
> Please refer to chapter 3.6 :-).

Yes. Good catch! We should manipulate the page table entry according to
this requirement.

> 
> 3.6 First-Level Translation
> First-level translation restricts the input-address to a canonical address (i.e., address bits 63:N have
> the same value as address bit [N-1], where N is 48-bits with 4-level paging and 57-bits with 5-level
> paging). Requests subject to first-level translation by remapping hardware are subject to canonical
> address checking as a pre-condition for first-level translation, and a violation is treated as a
> translation-fault.
> 
> Regards,
> Yi Liu

Best regards,
baolu