[PATCH 3/3] Docs: dt: add PCI IOMMU map bindings

Robin Murphy
2015-07-24T12:23:55Z

Hi Mark,

This looks sane, and lets me describe the thing I have on my desk, so
I'm happy. I have a couple of general thoughts below, but I don't intend
that they should stand in the way of this proposal as-is.

On 23/07/15 17:52, Mark Rutland wrote:
> The existing IOMMU bindings are able to specify the relationship between
> masters and IOMMUs, but they are insufficient for describing the general
> case of hotpluggable busses such as PCI where the set of masters is not
> known until runtime, and the relationship between masters and IOMMUs is
> a property of the integration of the system.
>
> This patch adds a generic binding for mapping PCI devices to IOMMUs,
> using a new iommu-map property (specific to PCI*) which may be used to
> map devices (identified by their Requester ID) to sideband data for the
> IOMMU which they master through.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-iommu.txt | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-iommu.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-iommu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-iommu.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..56c8296
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-iommu.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
> +This document describes the generic device tree binding for describing the
> +relationship between PCI(e) devices and IOMMU(s).
> +
> +Each PCI(e) device under a root complex is uniquely identified by its Requester
> +ID (AKA RID). A Requester ID is a triplet of a Bus number, Device number, and
> +Function number.
> +
> +For the purpose of this document, when treated as a numeric value, a RID is
> +formatted such that:
> +
> +* Bits [15:8] are the Bus number.
> +* Bits [7:3] are the Device number.
> +* Bits [2:0] are the Function number.
> +* Any other bits required for padding must be zero.
> +
> +IOMMUs may distinguish PCI devices through sideband data derived from the
> +Requester ID. While a given PCI device can only master through one IOMMU, a
> +root complex may split masters across a set of IOMMUs (e.g. with one IOMMU per
> +bus).
> +
> +The generic 'iommus' property is insufficient to describe this relationship,
> +and a mechanism is required to map from a PCI device to its IOMMU and sideband
> +data.
> +
> +For generic IOMMU bindings, see
> +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt.
> +
> +
> +PCI root complex
> +================
> +
> +Optional properties
> +-------------------
> +
> +- iommu-map: Maps a Requester ID to an IOMMU and associated iommu-specifier
> + data.
> +
> + The property is an arbitrary number of tuples of
> + (rid-base,iommu,iommu-base,length).
> +
> + Any RID r in the interval [rid-base, rid-base + length) is associated with
> + the listed IOMMU, with the iommu-specifier (r - rid-base + iommu-base).

Can we take as a guarantee that the system cannot present any ID at a
given IOMMU that is not represented in an appropriate output range (in
the sense that we may do things that could blow up horribly if spurious
IDs appeared)?

Furthermore, would representing one-to-many mappings by having multiple
matches for a given RID be legal? In the general case it's certainly
feasible for the IOMMU to see different IDs for e.g. reads vs. writes,
where the system munges extra bus lines into the sideband signals -
whether anyone would actually integrate a PCI host controller that way
is another matter, so I don't think it's something worth really worrying
about without a definite need.

> +
> +- iommu-map-mask: A mask to be applied to each Requester ID prior to being
> + mapped to an iommu-specifier per the iommu-map property.

Am I right to assume a mask of 0 would be a valid way to represent
"everything" (and if so, should rid-base and length just be ignored, or
mandated to be 0 and 1 respectively)? It looks a bit off at first
glance, but it does neatly address a genuine use-case.

> +
> +
> +Example (1)
> +===========
> +
> +/ {
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <1>;
> +
> + iommu: iommu at a {
> + reg = <0xa 0x1>;
> + compatible = "vendor,some-iommu";
> + #iommu-cells = <1>;

Troll question; what do we do when #iommu-cells > 1, where the IOMMU is
expecting some extra data associated with each ID (say, memory attributes)?

[ I'm pretty sure the answer here should be "define some additional
binding if and when anyone actually cares" ;) ]

Robin.

> + };
> +
> + pci: pci at f {
> + reg = <0xf 0x1>;
> + compatible = "vendor,pcie-root-complex";
> + device_type = "pci";
> +
> + /*
> + * The sideband data provided to the IOMMU is the RID,
> + * identity-mapped.
> + */
> + iommu-map = <0x0 &iommu 0x0 0x10000>;
> + };
> +};