Re: [PATCH v14 6/6] iommu: Remove mode argument from iommu_set_dma_strict()

From: John Garry
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 06:40:55 EST


On 21/06/2021 11:00, Lu Baolu wrote:
void iommu_set_dma_strict(bool force)
{
          if (force == true)
         iommu_dma_strict = true;
     else if (!(iommu_cmd_line & IOMMU_CMD_LINE_STRICT))
         iommu_dma_strict = true;
}

So we would use iommu_set_dma_strict(true) for a) and b), but iommu_set_dma_strict(false) for c).

Yes. We need to distinguish the "must" and "nice-to-have" cases of
setting strict mode.


Then I am not sure what you want to do with the accompanying print for c). It was:
"IOMMU batching is disabled due to virtualization"

And now is from this series:
"IOMMU batching disallowed due to virtualization"

Using iommu_get_dma_strict(domain) is not appropriate here to know the current mode (so we know whether to print).

Note that this change would mean that the current series would require non-trivial rework, which would be unfortunate so late in the cycle.

This patch series looks good to me and I have added by reviewed-by.
Probably we could make another patch series to improve it so that the
kernel optimization should not override the user setting.

On a personal level I would be happy with that approach, but I think it's better to not start changing things right away in a follow-up series.

So how about we add this patch (which replaces 6/6 "iommu: Remove mode argument from iommu_set_dma_strict()")?

Robin, any opinion?

------->8---------

[PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Make "iommu.strict" override batching due to
virtualization

As a change in policy, make iommu.strict cmdline argument override whether we disable batching due to virtualization.

The API of iommu_set_dma_strict() is changed to accept a "force" argument, which means that we always set iommu_dma_strict true, regardless of whether we already set via cmdline. Also return a boolean, to tell whether iommu_dma_strict was set or not.

Note that in all pre-existing callsites of iommu_set_dma_strict(), argument strict was true, so this argument is dropped.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
index 06666f9d8116..e8d65239b359 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
@@ -4380,10 +4380,8 @@ int __init intel_iommu_init(void)
* is likely to be much lower than the overhead of synchronizing
* the virtual and physical IOMMU page-tables.
*/
- if (cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap)) {
+ if (cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap) && iommu_set_dma_strict(false))
pr_info_once("IOMMU batching disallowed due to virtualization\n");
- iommu_set_dma_strict(true);
- }
iommu_device_sysfs_add(&iommu->iommu, NULL,
intel_iommu_groups,
"%s", iommu->name);
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
index 60b1ec42e73b..1434bee64af3 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
@@ -349,10 +349,14 @@ static int __init iommu_dma_setup(char *str)
}
early_param("iommu.strict", iommu_dma_setup);

-void iommu_set_dma_strict(bool strict)
+/* Return true if we set iommu_dma_strict */
+bool iommu_set_dma_strict(bool force)
{
- if (strict || !(iommu_cmd_line & IOMMU_CMD_LINE_STRICT))
- iommu_dma_strict = strict;
+ if (force || !(iommu_cmd_line & IOMMU_CMD_LINE_STRICT)) {
+ iommu_dma_strict = true;
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
}

bool iommu_get_dma_strict(struct iommu_domain *domain)
diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
index 32d448050bf7..f17b20234296 100644
--- a/include/linux/iommu.h
+++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ int iommu_enable_nesting(struct iommu_domain *domain);
int iommu_set_pgtable_quirks(struct iommu_domain *domain,
unsigned long quirks);

-void iommu_set_dma_strict(bool val);
+bool iommu_set_dma_strict(bool force);
bool iommu_get_dma_strict(struct iommu_domain *domain);

extern int report_iommu_fault(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct device *dev,
--
2.26.2