[RFC 1/2] iommu/dma: Restrict IOVAs to physical memory layout

[Robin Murphy]

On 01/07/16 17:03, Stuart Yoder wrote:
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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:18 AM
>> Subject: [RFC 1/2] iommu/dma: Restrict IOVAs to physical memory layout
>> To: iommu at lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>>
>>
>> Certain peripherals may be bestowed with knowledge of the physical
>> memory map of the system in which they live, and refuse to handle
>> addresses that they do not think are memory, which causes issues when
>> remapping to arbitrary IOVAs. Sidestep the issue by restricting IOVA
>> domains to only allocate addresses within ranges which match the
>> physical memory layout.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Posting this as an RFC because it's something I've been having to use
>> on Juno for all the PCI IOMMU development - it's pretty horrible, but I
>> can't easily think of a nicer solution...
> 
> Maybe I'm not getting the implications of this looking at the patch 
> in isolation, but how will this impact systems that have devices
> limited to 32-bit addressing?
> 
> In our memory map we have physical memory regions at:
> 0x00_8000_0000
> 0x80_8000_0000
> 
> Will devices with a 32-bit DMA mask still get 32-bit IOVAs?

Assuming there's some free IOVA space between 0x80000000 and 0xffffffff,
yes, otherwise it gets nothing ;) This has no effect on the allocation
behaviour in general, it just makes sure that within that behaviour, we
avoid allocating any address that doesn't look "real". The primary issue
is with 64-bit DMA masks - since it's a top-down allocator, you
typically end up with the poor device issuing its first DMA transaction
to 0xfffffffffffff000 which on Juno a) gets silently eaten by the root
complex because it doesn't match any window in the PCI-AXI translation
table, or b) goes wrong anyway because it's beyond the input address
range of the SMMU (and there's something not quite right WRT
truncation/sign-extension which I've not looked into closely and am
semi-deliberately also sweeping under the rug thanks to the simpler
hardware issue...)

As I say, it's hideous, but I can't see what else to do.

Robin.

> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart
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