[PATCH 1/1] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add support for BBML

[Keqian Zhu]

On 2021/1/29 0:17, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-01-28 15:18, Keqian Zhu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2021/1/27 17:39, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>> On 2021-01-27 07:36, Keqian Zhu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2021/1/27 10:01, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2021/1/26 18:12, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:23:40PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>> Now we probably will need some degreee of BBML feature awareness for the
>>>>>>> sake of SVA if and when we start using it for CPU pagetables, but I still
>>>>>>> cannot see any need to consider it in io-pgtable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Agreed; I don't think this is something that io-pgtable should have to care
>>>>>> about.
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a question here :-).
>>>> If the old table is not live, then the break procedure seems unnecessary. Do I miss something?
>>>
>>> The MMU is allowed to prefetch translations at any time, so not following the proper update procedure could still potentially lead to a TLB conflict, even if there's no device traffic to worry about disrupting.
>>>
>>> Robin.
>>
>> Thanks. Does the MMU you mention here includes MMU and SMMU? I know that at SMMU side, ATS can prefetch translation.
> 
> Yes, both - VMSAv8 allows speculative translation table walks, so SMMUv3 inherits from there (per 3.21.1 "Translation tables and TLB invalidation completion behavior").
OK, I Get it. Thanks.

Keqian.

> 
> Robin.
> 
>>
>> Keqian
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Keqian
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the SVA works in stall mode, and the failed device access requests are not
>>>>> discarded.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me look for examples. The BBML usage scenario was told by a former colleague.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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