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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 13/13] xen/iommu: smmu: Advertise when the SMMU support coherent table walk



Hi Stefano,

On 06/02/2015 22:06, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Julien Grall wrote:
When SMMU doesn't support coherent table walk, Xen may need to clean
updated PT (see commit 4c5f4cb "xen/arm: p2m: Clean cache PT when the
IOMMU doesn't support coherent walk").

If one SMMU of the platform doesn't support coherent table walk, the
feature is disabled for the whole platform. This is because device is
assigned to a domain after the page table are populated.

This could impact performance on domain which doesn't use device
passthrough. But, as the spec strongly recommends the support of this
feature for maintstream platform, I expect server will always have SMMUs
supporting coherent table walk. If not, we may need to enable this feature
per-domain.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
     I've just noticed that the support on the previous driver (i.e in
     Xen 4.5) may incorrectly expose this feature when all the SMMUs is
     not supporting coherent table walk.

     I'm not sure, if I should send a patch for it.

     Also I didn't squash this patch into "xen/iommu: smmu: Add Xen specific
     code to be able to use the driver" to help for review and to catch
     possible error in this patch.

     Changes in v3:
         - Patch added
---
  xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c 
b/xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c
index 373eee8..f4c7e49 100644
--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c
@@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ struct arm_smmu_domain {
        spinlock_t                      lock;
  };

+/*
+ * Xen: Platform features. It indicates the list of features support by all the
+ * SMMUs.
+ * Actually we only care about coherent table walk.
+ */
+static u32 platform_features = ARM_SMMU_FEAT_COHERENT_WALK;
+
  /* Xen: Dummy iommu_domain */
  struct iommu_domain
  {
@@ -2810,6 +2817,13 @@ static int arm_smmu_iommu_domain_init(struct domain *d)

        domain_hvm_iommu(d)->arch.priv = xen_domain;

+       /*
+        * The feature coherent walk can be enabled only when all SMMUs
+        * support it.
+        */
+       if (platform_features & ARM_SMMU_FEAT_COHERENT_WALK)
+               iommu_set_feature(d, IOMMU_FEAT_COHERENT_WALK);
+
        return 0;
  }

As long as you are sure that arm_smmu_iommu_domain_init is called after
all the iommus have been initialized by arm_smmu_dt_init, then this
patch is correct.

We don't support SMMU hotplug on Xen :). All the SMMUs are initialize via iommu_setup before DOM0 is created.

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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