[PATCH RFC 2/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Bypass SID0 for NXP i.MX95
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Tue Oct 15 08:37:25 PDT 2024
On 2024-10-15 4:31 pm, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 04:13:13PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 2024-10-15 1:47 pm, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 08:13:28AM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
>>>
>>>> Umm.. this was specific for rmr not a generic thing. I'd suggest to
>>>> avoid meddling with the STEs directly for acheiving bypass. Playing
>>>> with the iommu domain type could be neater. Perhaps, modify the
>>>> ops->def_domain_type to return an appropriate domain?
>>>
>>> Yeah, that is the expected way, to force the def_domain_type to
>>> IDENTITY and refuse to attach a PAGING/BLOCKED domain.
>>
>> There is no domain, this is bypassing an arbitrary StreamID not associated
>> with any device.
>
> If the stream ID is going to flow traffic shouldn't it have a DT node
> for it? Something must be driving the DMA on this SID, and the kernel
> does need to know what that is in some way, even for basic security
> things like making sure VFIO doesn't get a hold of it :\
Exactly, hence this RFC is definitely not the right approach.
Thanks,
Robin.
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