[RFC PATCH v1 3/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Allocate new ASID from installed_smmus

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Mon Aug 21 07:26:27 PDT 2023


On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 10:16:54PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 9:50 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:38:40PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 7:54 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:31:23PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:38 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:16:25AM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > > > > > > Pick an ASID that is within the supported range of all SMMUs that the
> > > > > > > domain is installed to.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Shavit <mshavit at google.com>
> > > > > > > ---
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This seems like a pretty niche scenario, maybe we should just keep a
> > > > > > global for the max ASID?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Otherwise we need a code to change the ASID, even for non-SVA domains,
> > > > > > when the domain is installed in different devices if the current ASID
> > > > > > is over the instance max..
> > > > >
> > > > > This RFC took the other easy way out for this problem by rejecting
> > > > > attaching a domain if its currently assigned ASID/VMID
> > > > > is out of range when attaching to a new SMMU. But I'm not sure
> > > > > which of the two options is the right trade-off.
> > > > > Especially if we move VMID to a global allocator (which I plan to add
> > > > > for v2), setting a global maximum for VMID of 256 sounds small.
> > > >
> > > > IMHO the simplest and best thing is to make both vmid and asid as
> > > > local allocators. Then alot of these problems disappear
> > >
> > > Well that does sound like the most flexible, but IMO quite a lot more
> > > complicated.
> > >
> > > I'll post a v2 RFC that removes the `iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add list of
> > > installed_smmus` patch and uses a flat master list in smmu_domain as
> > > suggested by Robin, for comparison with the v1. But at a glance using a
> > > local allocator would require:
> >
> > > 1. Keeping that patch so we can track the asid/vmid for a domain on a
> > > per smmu instance
> >
> > You'd have to store the cache tag in the per-master struct on that
> > list and take it out of the domain struct.
> >
> > Ie the list of attached masters contains the per-master cache tag
> > instead of a global cache tag.
> >
> > The only place you need the cache tag is when iterating over the list
> > of masters, so it is OK.
> >
> > If the list of masters is sorted by smmu then the first master of each
> > smmu can be used to perform the cache tag invalidation, then the rest
> > of the list is the ATC invalidation.
> >
> > The looping code will be a bit ugly.
> 
> I suppose that could work.... but I'm worried it's gonna be messy,
> especially if we think about how the PASID feature would interact.
> With PASID, there could be multiple domains attached to a master. So
> we won't be able to store a single cache tag/asid for the currently
> attached domain on the arm_smmu_master. 

I wasn't suggesting to store it in the arm_smmu_master, I was
suggesting to store it in the same place you store the per-master
PASID.

eg I expect that on attach the domain will allocate new memory to
store the pasid/cache tag/master/domain and thread that memory on a
list of attached masters.

> > > (on a loop over every smmu the domain in arm_smmu_mmu_notifier_get is
> > > attached to, which just at a glance looks headache inducing because of
> > > sva's piggybacking on the rid domain.)
> >
> > Not every smmu, just the one you are *currently* attaching to. We
> > don't care if the *other* smmu's have different ASIDs, maybe they are
> > not using BTM, or won't use SVA.
> 
> I mean because the domain in arm_smmu_mmu_notifier_get is the RID
> domain (not the SVA domain, same issue we discussed in previous
> thread) , which can be attached to multiple SMMUs.

Oh that is totally nonsensical. I expect you will need to fix that
sooner than later. Once the CD table is moved and there is a proper
way to track the PASID it should not be needed. It shouldn't fall into
the decision making about where to put the ASID xarray.

Jason




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