Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix CMDQ timeout warning

[Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 09:17:17AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> While polling for n spaces in the cmdq, the current code instead checks
> if the queue is full. If the queue is almost full but not enough space
> (<n), then the CMDQ timeout warning is never triggered even if the
> polling has exceeded timeout limit.
> 
> The existing arm_smmu_cmdq_poll_until_not_full() doesn't fit efficiently
> nor ideally to the only caller arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist():
>  - It uses a new timer at every single call, which fails to limit to the
>    preset ARM_SMMU_POLL_TIMEOUT_US per issue.
> - It has a redundant internal queue_full(), which doesn't detect whether
>    there is a enough space for number of n commands.
> 
> This patch polls for the availability of exact space instead of full and
> emit timeout warning accordingly.
> 
> Fixes: 587e6c10a7ce ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reduce contention during command-queue insertion")
> Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <zhangyu1@linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <zhangyu1@linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>

Reviewed-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>