Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] iommu: Add verisilicon IOMMU driver

Benjamin Gaignard
2025-06-20T15:02:20Z

Le 20/06/2025 à 14:05, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:57:49AM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>> Le 19/06/2025 à 18:59, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 06:27:52PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>>>> Le 19/06/2025 à 15:47, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
>>>>> Ugh. This ignores the gfp flags that are passed into map because you
>>>>> have to force atomic due to the spinlock that shouldn't be there :(
>>>>> This means it does not set GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT when required. It would
>>>>> be better to continue to use the passed in GFP flags but override them
>>>>> to atomic mode.
>>>> I will add a gfp_t parameter and use it like that:
>>>> page_table = iommu_alloc_pages_sz(gfp | GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA32, SPAGE_SIZE);
>>> This will or together GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL, I don't think that
>>> works..
>> I have test it, I don't see conflicts or errors. What worries you ?
> Just looking at the bitmaps I'm not sure? Did you run with lockdep?

Yes and it complains about that.
I see that sun50i driver have more less the same struct than my driver
but doesn't use lock. I will try see if I can remove the lock.

>>>>>> +static int vsi_iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>>>>>> + struct device *dev)
>>>>>> +{
>>>>>> + struct vsi_iommu *iommu = dev_iommu_priv_get(dev);
>>>>>> + struct vsi_iommu_domain *vsi_domain = to_vsi_domain(domain);
>>>>>> + unsigned long flags;
>>>>>> + int ret;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + if (WARN_ON(!iommu))
>>>>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + /* iommu already attached */
>>>>>> + if (iommu->domain == domain)
>>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + ret = vsi_iommu_identity_attach(&vsi_identity_domain, dev);
>>>>>> + if (ret)
>>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>> Hurm, this is actually quite bad, now that it is clear the HW is in an
>>>>> identity mode it is actually a security problem for VFIO to switch the
>>>>> translation to identity during attach_device. I'd really prefer new
>>>>> drivers don't make this mistake.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems the main thing motivating this is the fact a linked list has
>>>>> only a single iommu->node so you can't attach the iommu to both the
>>>>> new/old domain and atomically update the page table base.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible for the HW to do a blocking behavior? That would be an
>>>>> easy fix.. You should always be able to force this by allocating a
>>>>> shared top page table level during probe time and making it entirely
>>>>> empty while staying always in the paging mode. Maybe there is a less
>>>>> expensive way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise you probably have work more like the other drivers and
>>>>> allocate a struct for each attachment so you can have the iommu
>>>>> attached two domains during the switch over and never drop to an
>>>>> identity mode.
>>>> I will remove the switch to identity domain and it will works fine.
>>> You'll loose invalidations..
>>>
>>> Maybe the easiest thing is to squish vsi_iommu_enable() and reorganize
>>> it so that the spinlock is held across the register programming and
>>> then you can atomically under the lock change the registers and change
>>> the linked list. The register write cannot fail so this is fine.
>>>
>>> This should probably also flush the iotlb inside the lock.
>> I will try to summarize:
>> in vsi_iommu_attach_device() I should:
>> - take the lock
>> - do nothing if the domain is the same.
>> - if iommu is used (ie powered up):
>> - update the registers to enable the iommu
>> - flush
>> - update the link list
>> - update iommu->domain
>> - release the lock
> That sounds believable, yes.. Though can you do the "powered up" checks
> inside the spinlock - are they sleeping? Can they be done before the
> spinlock?
>
>> in vsi_iommu_identity_attach() I should:
>> - take the lock
>> - do nothing if the domain is the same.
>> - if iommu is used (ie powered up):
>> - disable the iommu
>> - remove the node from the list
>> - update iommu->domain
>> - release the lock
> And maybe flush too? How does the caching hw work at this point? You
> can't have stale entries in the cache when you switch back to an
> enabled/translating configuration. So either the HW flushes implicitly
> or you need to add a flush somewhere..

I do not have the documentation for the hardware but it seems that
enable/disable are enough to do the job.

>
>> vsi_iommu_suspend() and vsi_iommu_resume() will also have to take the lock
>> before calling vsi_iommu_disable() and vsi_iommu_enable().
> Yes, if they use iommu->domain that seems good
>
> If the above locking is a problem then I'd use the group mutex instead
> during resume/suspend. The attach functions are already called with
> the group mutex held.

Does group mutex is also called when using vsi_iommu_map or vsi_iommu_unmap ?

>
>> Do I have to switch to identity domain in vsi_iommu_attach_device()
>> before applying the requested domain ?
> No, that is what creates the security problem. What you want is to
> update the HW registers in a way that the HW just changes hitlessly
> from one translation to another, then flush the cache.
>
> Jason