Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] iommu/vt-d: Reserve RID_PASID from global PASID space

Jacob Pan
2023-04-17T16:33:00Z

Hi Baolu,

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:59:45 +0800, Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
wrote:

> On 4/8/23 2:05 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > On VT-d platforms, RID_PASID is used for DMA request without PASID. We
> > should not treat RID_PASID special instead let it be allocated from the
> > global PASID number space. Non-zero value can be used in RID_PASID on
> > Intel VT-d.
> >
> > For ARM, AMD and others that_always_ use 0 as RID_PASID, there is no
> > impact in that SVA PASID allocation base is 1.
> >
> > With this change, devices do both DMA with PASID and SVA will not worry
> > about conflicts when it comes to allocating PASIDs for in-kernel DMA.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan<jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > index 9f737ef55463..cbb2670f88ca 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > @@ -3956,6 +3956,10 @@ int __init intel_iommu_init(void)
> >
> > intel_iommu_enabled = 1;
> >
> > + /* Reserved RID_PASID from the global namespace for legacy DMA
> > */
> > + WARN_ON(iommu_alloc_global_pasid(PASID_RID2PASID,
> > PASID_RID2PASID) !=
> > + PASID_RID2PASID);
>
> How about moving above line up a bit? For example, at least before
> iommu_device_register(). This is the starting point where device drivers
> may want global PASIDs.
>
makes sense will do.

Thanks,

Jacob