Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] PCI: imx6: Config look up table(LUT) to support MSI ITS and IOMMU for i.MX95

Frank Li
2024-06-03T21:16:32Z

On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 11:29:38PM +0300, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
>
>
> On 5/31/24 17:58, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > On 2024-05-31 12:08 am, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > [+cc IOMMU and pcie-apple.c folks for comment]
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:39:21PM -0400, Frank Li wrote:
> > > > For the i.MX95, configuration of a LUT is necessary to convert
> > > > Bus Device
> > > > Function (BDF) to stream IDs, which are utilized by both IOMMU and ITS.
> > > > This involves examining the msi-map and smmu-map to ensure consistent
> > > > mapping of PCI BDF to the same stream IDs. Subsequently, LUT-related
> > > > registers are configured. In the absence of an msi-map, the built-in MSI
> > > > controller is utilized as a fallback.
> > > >
> > > > Additionally, register a PCI bus notifier to trigger
> > > > imx_pcie_add_device()
> > > > upon the appearance of a new PCI device and when the bus is an iMX6 PCI
> > > > controller. This function configures the correct LUT based on
> > > > Device Tree
> > > > Settings (DTS).
> > >
> > > This scheme is pretty similar to apple_pcie_bus_notifier().  If we
> > > have to do this, I wish it were *more* similar, i.e., copy the
> > > function names, bitmap tracking, code structure, etc.
> > >
> > > I don't really know how stream IDs work, but I assume they are used on
> > > most or all arm64 platforms, so I'm a little surprised that of all the
> > > PCI host drivers used on arm64, only pcie-apple.c and pci-imx6.c need
> > > this notifier.
> >
> > This is one of those things that's mostly at the mercy of the PCIe root
> > complex implementation. Typically the SMMU StreamID and/or GIC ITS
> > DeviceID is derived directly from the PCI RID, sometimes with additional
> > high-order bits hard-wired to disambiguate PCI segments. I believe this
> > RID-translation LUT is a particular feature of the the Synopsys IP - I
> > know there's also one on the NXP Layerscape platforms, but on those it's
> > programmed by the bootloader, which also generates the appropriate
> > "msi-map" and "iommu-map" properties to match. Ideally that's what i.MX
> > should do as well, but hey.
>
> That's usually fine, except when SRIOV and/or hotplug devices (that is, not
> discoverable at bootloader time) come into play. We came up with this
> "solution" to cover these more dynamic scenarios.
>
> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/2a5bbb13cc39102a68fcc31056925427ab44b591

If my understand is correct, basic it was still pre-allocate method. Just
reserve more streams id for SRIOV and hotplugs. It was not really depend
on what devices in system.

Frank

>
> ---
> Best Regards, Laurentiu
>
> > > There's this path, which is pretty generic and does at least the
> > > of_map_id() part of what you're doing in imx_pcie_add_device():
> > >
> > >      __driver_probe_device
> > >        really_probe
> > >          pci_dma_configure                       #
> > > pci_bus_type.dma_configure
> > >            of_dma_configure
> > >              of_dma_configure_id
> > >                of_iommu_configure
> > >                  of_pci_iommu_init
> > >                    of_iommu_configure_dev_id
> > >                      of_map_id
> > >                      of_iommu_xlate
> > >                        ops = iommu_ops_from_fwnode
> > >                        iommu_fwspec_init
> > >                        ops->of_xlate(dev, iommu_spec)
> > >
> > > Maybe this needs to be extended somehow with a hook to do the
> > > device-specific work like updating the LUT?  Just speculating here,
> > > the IOMMU folks will know how this is expected to work.
> >
> > Note that that particular code path has fundamental issues and much of
> > it needs to go away (I'm working on it, but it's a rich ~8-year-old pile
> > of technical debt...). IOMMU configuration needs to be happening at
> > device_add() time via the IOMMU layer's own bus notifier.
> >
> > If it's really necessary to do this programming from Linux, then there's
> > still no point in it being dynamic - the mappings cannot ever change,
> > since the rest of the kernel believes that what the DT said at boot time
> > was already a property of the hardware. It would be a lot more logical,
> > and likely simpler, for the driver to just read the relevant map
> > property and program the entire LUT to match, all in one go at
> > controller probe time. Rather like what's already commonly done with the
> > parsing of "dma-ranges" to program address-translation LUTs for inbound
> > windows.
> >
> > Plus that would also give a chance of safely dealing with bad DTs
> > specifying invalid ID mappings (by refusing to probe at all). As it is,
> > returning an error from a child's BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE does nothing
> > except prevent any further notifiers from running at that point - the
> > device will still be added, allowed to bind a driver, and able to start
> > sending DMA/MSI traffic without the controller being correctly
> > programmed, which at best won't work and at worst may break the whole
> > system.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robin.
> >
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