RE: [PATCH v7 0/9] ACPI/IORT: Support for IORT RMR node

[Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>]

Hi Robin/Lorenzo,

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> Subject: [PATCH v7 0/9] ACPI/IORT: Support for IORT RMR node
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The series adds support to IORT RMR nodes specified in IORT
> Revision E.b -ARM DEN 0049E[0]. RMR nodes are used to describe
> memory ranges that are used by endpoints and require a unity
> mapping in SMMU.
> 
> We have faced issues with 3408iMR RAID controller cards which
> fail to boot when SMMU is enabled. This is because these
> controllers make use of host memory for various caching related
> purposes and when SMMU is enabled the iMR firmware fails to
> access these memory regions as there is no mapping for them.
> IORT RMR provides a way for UEFI to describe and report these
> memory regions so that the kernel can make a unity mapping for
> these in SMMU.
> 
> Change History:
> 
> v6 --> v7
> 
> The only change from v6 is the fix pointed out by Steve to
> the SMMUv2 SMR bypass install in patch #8.
> 
> Thanks to the Tested-by tags by Laurentiu with SMMUv2 and
> Hanjun/Huiqiang with SMMUv3 for v6. I haven't added the tags
> yet as the series still needs more review[1].
> 
> Feedback and tests on this series is very much appreciated.

Since we have an update to IORT spec(E.c) now[1] and includes additional
attributes/flags for the RMR node, I am planning to respin this series soon.

Going through the new spec, I have a few queries,

The memory range attributes can now be described as one of the following,

0x00: Device-nGnRnE memory
0x01: Device-nGnRE memory
0x02: Device-nGRE memory
0x03: Device-GRE memory
0x04: Normal Inner Non-cacheable Outer Non-cacheable
0x05: Normal Inner Write-back Outer Write-back Inner Shareable

I am not sure how this needs to be captured and used in the kernel. Is there
any intention of using these fine-grained attributes in the kernel now
or a generic mapping of the above to the struct iommu_rev_region prot field
is enough? i.e., something like,

{
    ....
    prot = IOMMU_READ | IOMMU_WRITE;

    if (rmr_attr == normal_mem) // 0x05
        prot |= IOMMU_CACHE;
    
    if (rmr_attr == device_mem) { //0x00 - 0x03
        prot |= IOMMU_MMIO;
        prot |= IOMMU_NOEXEC;
    }
    ....
}

Similarly for the 'flags' field, the new 'Access Privilege' is intended to set the
IOMMU_PRIV ?
  
Please let me know.

Thanks,
Shameer

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0049/ec/?lang=en