Re: [PATCH 1/1] Revert "iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set TTL invalidation hint better"

[zhurui <zhurui3@huawei.com>]

On 2023/8/1 16:55, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 02:21:22PM +0800, wangwudi wrote:
>> From: Rui Zhu <zhurui3@huawei.com>
>>
>> This reverts commit 6833b8f2e19945a41e4d5efd8c6d9f4cae9a5b7d.
>>
>> This constraint violates the protocol. When tg is not 0 but ttl, scale,
>> and num are 0, the hardware reports the CERROR_IL gerror. In the
>> protocol, leaf is not a prerequisite for TTL.
>>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
>> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
>> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
>> Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
>> Cc: Tomas Krcka <krckatom@amazon.de>
>> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Rui Zhu <zhurui3@huawei.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rui Zhu <zhurui3@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 9 ++-------
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> index 9b0dc3505601..098e84cfa82f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
>> @@ -1898,13 +1898,8 @@ static void __arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range(struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent *cmd,
>>  		/* Convert page size of 12,14,16 (log2) to 1,2,3 */
>>  		cmd->tlbi.tg = (tg - 10) / 2;
>>  
>> -		/*
>> -		 * Determine what level the granule is at. For non-leaf, io-pgtable
>> -		 * assumes .tlb_flush_walk can invalidate multiple levels at once,
>> -		 * so ignore the nominal last-level granule and leave TTL=0.
>> -		 */
>> -		if (cmd->tlbi.leaf)
>> -			cmd->tlbi.ttl = 4 - ((ilog2(granule) - 3) / (tg - 3));
>> +		/* Determine what level the granule is at */
>> +		cmd->tlbi.ttl = 4 - ((ilog2(granule) - 3) / (tg - 3));
> 
> Doesn't this reintroduce the bug that 6833b8f2e199 tried to fix?
> 
> afaict, we should only hit the problematic case of tg != 0 but ttl, scale
> and num all 0 if we're invalidating a single page, so shouldn't we just
> zap tg in that case, since it's not doing anything useful?

You're right. I'm sorry I missed. I just need to handle the problematic
case by assigning 0 to tg. It's better to add this following code before
each tlbi cmd batch add.

if (num_pages == 1) {
	cmd->tlbi.tg = 0;
}

I'll resubmit a new patch. Thanks for your correction.

> 
> I hesitate to say we should avoid range invalidation altogether for
> single-page invalidations because I think some errata workarounds might
> need that to work.
> 
> Will
> .
>