[PATCH v4 2/3] PCI: Allow ATS to be always on for pre-CXL devices

Nicolin Chen nicolinc at nvidia.com
Sun Apr 26 22:54:01 PDT 2026


Some NVIDIA GPU/NIC devices, though they don't implement CXL config space,
have many CXL-like properties. Call this kind "pre-CXL".

Similar to CXL.cache capability, these pre-CXL devices also require the ATS
function even when their RIDs are IOMMU bypassed, i.e. keep ATS "always on"
v.s. "on demand" when a non-zero PASID line gets enabled in SVA use cases.

Introduce pci_dev_specific_ats_always_on() quirk function to scan a list of
IDs for these devices. Then, include it in pci_ats_always_on().

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoyd at nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoyd at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron at huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci.h    |  9 +++++++++
 drivers/pci/ats.c    |  3 ++-
 drivers/pci/quirks.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.h b/drivers/pci/pci.h
index 4a14f88e543a2..4e0077478cd7a 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci.h
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.h
@@ -1155,6 +1155,15 @@ static inline int pci_dev_specific_reset(struct pci_dev *dev, bool probe)
 }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS) && defined(CONFIG_PCI_ATS)
+bool pci_dev_specific_ats_always_on(struct pci_dev *dev);
+#else
+static inline bool pci_dev_specific_ats_always_on(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS) && defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
 int acpi_get_rc_resources(struct device *dev, const char *hid, u16 segment,
 			  struct resource *res);
diff --git a/drivers/pci/ats.c b/drivers/pci/ats.c
index fc871858b65bc..3846447ea322f 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/ats.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/ats.c
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ bool pci_ats_always_on(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 	if (pdev->is_virtfn)
 		pdev = pci_physfn(pdev);
 
-	return pci_cxl_ats_always_on(pdev);
+	return pci_cxl_ats_always_on(pdev) ||
+	       pci_dev_specific_ats_always_on(pdev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_ats_always_on);
 
diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
index caaed1a01dc02..887babba97cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
@@ -5715,6 +5715,44 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x1457, quirk_intel_e2000_no_ats);
 DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x1459, quirk_intel_e2000_no_ats);
 DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x145a, quirk_intel_e2000_no_ats);
 DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x145c, quirk_intel_e2000_no_ats);
+
+static bool quirk_nvidia_gpu_ats_always_on(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+	switch (pdev->device) {
+	case 0x2e00 ... 0x2e3f: /* GB20B */
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
+static const struct pci_dev_ats_always_on {
+	u16 vendor;
+	u16 device;
+	bool (*ats_always_on)(struct pci_dev *dev);
+} pci_dev_ats_always_on[] = {
+	/* NVIDIA GPUs */
+	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA, PCI_ANY_ID, quirk_nvidia_gpu_ats_always_on },
+	/* NVIDIA CX10 Family NVlink-C2C */
+	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_MELLANOX, 0x2101, NULL },
+	{ 0 }
+};
+
+/* Some pre-CXL devices require ATS when it is IOMMU-bypassed */
+bool pci_dev_specific_ats_always_on(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+	const struct pci_dev_ats_always_on *i;
+
+	for (i = pci_dev_ats_always_on; i->vendor; i++) {
+		if (i->vendor != pdev->vendor)
+			continue;
+		if (i->ats_always_on && i->ats_always_on(pdev))
+			return true;
+		if (!i->ats_always_on && i->device == pdev->device)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_PCI_ATS */
 
 /* Freescale PCIe doesn't support MSI in RC mode */
-- 
2.43.0




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