[PATCH RFC] iommu: Enable per-device SSID space for SVA
Joonwon Kang
joonwonkang at google.com
Fri Apr 24 01:57:53 PDT 2026
> For SVA, the IOMMU core always allocates PASID from the global PASID
> space. The use of this global PASID space comes from the limitation of
> the ENQCMD instruction in Intel CPUs that it fetches its PASID operand
> from IA32_PASID, which is per-task.
>
> Due to this nature, SVA with ARM SMMU v3 has been found not working in
> our environment when other modules/devices compete for PASID. The
> environment looks as follows:
>
> - The device is not a PCIe device.
> - The device is to use SVA.
> - The supported SSID/PASID space is very small for the device; only 1 to
> 3 SSIDs are supported.
> - There is a custom way of transmitting the SSID from the kernel to the
> device.
>
> With this setup, when other modules have allocated all the PASIDs that
> our device is expected to use from the global PASID space via APIs like
> iommu_alloc_global_pasid() or iommu_sva_bind_device(), SVA binding to
> our device fails due to the lack of available PASIDs.
>
> Since SSID/PASID is supported per-SID in ARM SMMU v3, this commit
> leverages the fact and lifts the use of the global PASID space if
> possible. What it does includes:
>
> - Introduce a new IOMMU capability IOMMU_CAP_PER_DEV_PASID_SPACE, which
> represents whether the IOMMU supports an independent PASID space per-
> device, not shared across devices. ARM SMMU v3 is the case.
> - Open a new API iommu_attach_device_pasid_any() to allocate any
> available PASID and attach an IOMMU domain to it.
> - Opt out the use of the global PASID space for SVA if the IOMMU has
> that capability, and use the new API to allocate a PASID in that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonwon Kang <joonwonkang at google.com>
Please disregard this RFC as I have sent a new one with more recipients.
Thanks,
Joonwon Kang
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