Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/dma: Add config for PCI SAC address trick

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Jun 24 2022 - 09:28:20 EST


On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:41:00PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2022-06-23 12:33, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 02:12:39PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > > Thanks for your bravery!
> >
> > It already starts, with that patch I am getting:
> >
> > xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x000f address=0xff00ffffffefe000 flags=0x0000]
> >
> > In my kernel log. The device is an AMD XHCI controller and seems to
> > funciton normally after boot. The message disappears with
> > iommu.forcedac=0.
> >
> > Need to look more into that...
>
> Given how amd_iommu_domain_alloc() sets the domain aperture, presumably the
> DMA address allocated was 0xffffffffffefe000? Odd that it gets bits punched
> out in the middle rather than simply truncated off the top as I would have
> expected :/

So even more weird, as a workaround I changed the AMD IOMMU driver to
allocate a 4-level page-table and limit the DMA aperture to 48 bits. I
still get the same message.