Re: [PATCH 3/4] Intel pci: Limit dmar_init_reserved_ranges

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

I'll probably need help from our Hardware PCI Engineer to help explain
this further, though here's a pointer to an earlier email thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129259816925973&w=2

I'll also dig out the specs you're asking for.

Thanks,
Mike

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Mike Travis (travis@sgi.com) wrote:
>> Chris - did you have any comment on this patch?
> 
> It doesn't actually look right to me.  It means that particular range
> is no longer reserved.  But perhaps I've misunderstood something.
> 
>> Mike Travis wrote:
>>>    dmar_init_reserved_ranges() reserves the card's MMIO ranges to
>>>    prevent handing out a DMA map that would overlap with the MMIO range.
>>>    The problem while the Nvidia GPU has 64bit BARs, it's capable of
>>>    receiving > 40bit PIOs, but can't generate > 40bit DMAs.
> 
> I don't undertand what you mean here.
> 
>>>    So when the iommu code reserves these MMIO ranges a > 40bit
>>>    entry ends up getting in the rbtree.  On a UV test system with
>>>    the Nvidia cards, the BARs are:
>>>
>>>      0001:36:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
>>> GT200GL 	  Region 0: Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>>> [size=16M]
>>> 	  Region 1: Memory at f8200000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>>> 	  Region 3: Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
>>>
>>>    So this 44bit MMIO address 0xf8200000000 ends up in the rbtree.  As DMA
>>>    maps get added and deleted from the rbtree we can end up getting a cached
>>>    entry to this 0xf8200000000 entry... this is what results in the code
>>>    handing out the invalid DMA map of 0xf81fffff000:
>>>
>>> 	    [ 0xf8200000000-1 >> PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_SIZE ]
>>>
>>>    The IOVA code needs to better honor the "limit_pfn" when allocating
>>>    these maps.
> 
> This means we could get the MMIO address range (it's no longer reserved).
> It seems to me the DMA transaction would then become a peer to peer
> transaction if ACS is not enabled, which could show up as random register
> write in that GPUs 256M BAR (i.e. broken).
> 
> The iova allocation should not hand out an address bigger than the
> dma_mask.  What is the device's dma_mask?
> 
> thanks,
> -chris