Re: [PATCH] iommu: Fix def_domain_type interaction with untrusted devices

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:18:00PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:

> For example, the intel iommu driver allows users to opt-in graphic in
> passthrough mode, in that case def_domain_type will return
> IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY no matter the device is trusted or not.
> 
>     if ((iommu_identity_mapping & IDENTMAP_GFX) && IS_GFX_DEVICE(pdev))
>          return IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY;
> 
> this potentially creates same conflict as the amd driver.

These performance policy choices should be done in the core code and
they should interact correctly with other policy knobs like untrusted.

If Intel Graphics has some performance reason to prefer IDENTITY then
it should work the same no matter the IOMMU it is connected to. I
think just because the GPU is co-packaged with the IOMMU isn't a good
reason to organize the software like this.

If having a policy of a performance boost to some devices is
legitimate then I guess we'd need more levels on the command line:
 fast           all IDENTITY
 fast-secure    all DMA expect IDENTIY for special devices
 mostly-secure  all DMA but unmapping is not strict
 secure         all DMA and strict unmapping

How exactly you decide when the performance reason justfies IDENTITY,
I don't know.. Would mlx5 800G NICs that can overwhelm most IOMMUs
also go in that bucket too?

But yes, I'm quite adament that drivers should not be using
def_domain_type as some kind of performance policy thing.

Jason