Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use S2FWB when available

Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-30T16:41:49Z

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 03:12:54PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * If for some reason the HW does not support DMA coherency then using
> > + * S2FWB won't work. This will also disable nesting support.
> > + */
> > + if (FIELD_GET(IDR3_FWB, reg) &&
> > + (smmu->features & ARM_SMMU_FEAT_COHERENCY))
> > + smmu->features |= ARM_SMMU_FEAT_S2FWB;
> I think that’s for the SMMU coherency which in theory is not related to the
> master which FWB overrides, so this check is not correct.

Yes, I agree, in theory.

However the driver today already links them together:

case IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY:
/* Assume that a coherent TCU implies coherent TBUs */
return master->smmu->features & ARM_SMMU_FEAT_COHERENCY;

So this hunk was a continuation of that design.

> What I meant in the previous thread that we should set FWB only for coherent
> masters as (in attach s2):
> if (smmu->features & ARM_SMMU_FEAT_S2FWB && dev_is_dma_coherent(master->dev)
> // set S2FWB in STE

I think as I explained in that thread, it is not really correct
either. There is no reason to block using S2FWB for non-coherent
masters that are not used with VFIO. The page table will still place
the correct memattr according to the IOMMU_CACHE flag, S2FWB just
slightly changes the encoding.

For VFIO, non-coherent masters need to be blocked from VFIO entirely
and should never get even be allowed to get here.

If anything should be changed then it would be the above
IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY test, and I don't know if
dev_is_dma_coherent() would be correct there, or if it should do some
ACPI inspection or what.

So let's drop the above hunk, it already happens implicitly because
VFIO checks it via IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY and it makes more sense
to put the assumption in one place.

Thanks,
Jason