From: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 07/10] iommu/vt-d: Add iotlb flush for nested domain
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:22:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS0PR11MB7529E0EEFC3E33549875549CC35CA@DS0PR11MB7529.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <097a2abf-e817-99ca-1f31-dbd439aaade8@linux.intel.com>
> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 4:08 PM
>
> On 2023/6/8 15:14, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> >>> + * stage-1 page table cache
> >>> + * invalidation
> >>> + * @IOMMU_VTD_QI_FLAGS_LEAF: The LEAF flag indicates whether only the
> >>> + * leaf PTE caching needs to be invalidated
> >>> + * and other paging structure caches can be
> >>> + * preserved.
> >>> + */
> >> what about "Drain Reads" and "Drain Writes"? Is the user allowed/required
> >> to provide those hints?
> > All other comments got. For these two hints, the two flags are from the IOTLB
> > Invalidation descriptor. Per below description, the hardware that supports nested
> > should support drain and does not require software to ask for it. So it appears no
> > need to define them in uapi.
> >
> > "Hardware implementation with Major Version 2 or higher (VER_REG),
> > always performs required drain without software explicitly requesting
> > a drain in IOTLB invalidation. This field is deprecated and hardware
> > will always report it as 1 to maintain backward compatibility with
> > software"
>
> Make sense. Perhaps we can also remove below code in
> __iommu_flush_iotlb():
>
> /* Note: set drain read/write */
> #if 0
> /*
> * This is probably to be super secure.. Looks like we can
> * ignore it without any impact.
> */
> if (cap_read_drain(iommu->cap))
> val |= DMA_TLB_READ_DRAIN;
> #endif
This seems dead code. But it is there for a long time since below commit.
ba39592764ed20cee09aae5352e603a27bf56b0d
Regards,
Yi Liu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-11 14:51 [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Intel VT-d nested translation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] iommufd: Add data structure for Intel VT-d stage-1 domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-24 6:59 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-25 2:28 ` Zhang, Tina
2023-05-29 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-29 19:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] iommu/vt-d: Extend dmar_domain to support nested domain Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:02 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 2:56 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] iommu/vt-d: Add helper for nested domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] iommu/vt-d: Add helper to setup pasid nested translation Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:16 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:16 ` Baolu Lu
2023-06-07 8:34 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:32 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:35 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 3:37 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] iommu/vt-d: Make domain attach helpers to be extern Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] iommu/vt-d: Set the nested domain to a device Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:22 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:24 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] iommu/vt-d: Add iotlb flush for nested domain Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:33 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-06-08 7:14 ` Liu, Yi L
2023-06-08 8:07 ` Baolu Lu
2023-06-20 6:22 ` Liu, Yi L [this message]
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] iommu/vt-d: Add nested domain allocation Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] iommu/vt-d: Implement hw_info for iommu capability query Yi Liu
2023-05-11 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] iommu/vt-d: Disallow nesting on domains with read-only mappings Yi Liu
2023-05-24 7:44 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-26 4:28 ` Baolu Lu
2023-05-24 8:59 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Intel VT-d nested translation Tian, Kevin
2023-05-25 18:06 ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-26 11:25 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-05-29 18:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-30 0:16 ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-30 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-06-14 8:07 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-06-14 11:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-06-16 2:29 ` Tian, Kevin
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