[PATCH v2 0/5] iommufd: Iterate the cache invalidation array in the core

Nicolin Chen nicolinc at nvidia.com
Mon Jul 6 11:46:50 PDT 2026


The vIOMMU cache_invalidate() and the nested-HWPT cache_invalidate_user()
ops are each handed the full user invalidation array and must report, via
array->entry_num, how many of its entries they handled. That makes every
driver open-code the same array walk, with real downsides:

 - each driver carries its own loop and sub-array bookkeeping;
 - the ARM SMMUv3 driver allocates a buffer sized to the whole array just
   to iterate over it;
 - hand-rolling the loop left the ARM SMMUv3 driver with two long-standing
   bugs:
    1) on a conversion failure it counts commands that it converted but
       never issued, so user space skips invalidations that never reached
       the cmdq;
    2) it rejects a zero-length array, which the uAPI documents as a valid
       request that only probes the data type.

The walk is identical for every driver, so move it into the iommufd core.

The core now drives the iteration:

 - it invokes the op on a sub-array starting at the first not-yet-handled
   entry;
 - the op handles one chunk from the front of that sub-array and reports
   the count via array->entry_num;
 - the core advances and re-invokes until the whole array is consumed or
   the op returns an error.

A driver then only has to handle one bounded chunk per call, e.g. the ARM
SMMUv3 op copies a single cmdq batch into a fixed on-stack buffer and drops
its whole-array allocation. An op still handling the entire array in one
call keeps working, so each driver converts independently.

These are long-standing corner cases, so this targets for-next, not for-rc.

This is on Github:
https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/iommufd_invalidation_loop-v2

[Note to Jason and Will]
This has some conflicts with Ashish's ARM_SMMU_OPT_REPEAT_TLBI_CFGI series:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260609073204.1760077-1-amhetre@nvidia.com/

Changelog
v2
 * Add "Reviewed-by" from Kevin to patches 2-5
 * Patch-1: Allow the ATC_INV Global bit gated on ssid_bits, correcting
   the wrong every-device claim: per the spec it only broadens a single
   device's invalidation across its PASIDs
 * Patch-1: Move the FEAT_ATS check into the allowlist switch
 * Patch-1: Gate the TTL range field on FEAT_RANGE_INV too
 * Patch-1: Accept only asid_bits of the ASID field
 * Patch-1: Reject Reserved range field value combinations
 * Patch-1: Reject an ATC_INV Size above 52
 * Patch-1: Add local smmu and data variables to simplify the long lines
 * Patch-1: Document the valid-command contract in the uAPI header
 * Patch-1: Note that unchecked out-of-range values are UNPREDICTABLE
 * Patch-1: Note that SSID/Global are IGNORED, not RES0, when SSV == 0
 * Patch-2: Consolidate the two invalidation loops into one
 * Patch-2: Multiply by the size_t entry_len to avoid a u32 overflow
 * Patch-3/5: Return 0 directly on a zero-length array
 * Patch-4: Use a processed counter and an out label like the mock driver
v1
 https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1782767398.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com/

Nicolin Chen (5):
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Reject unsupported bits in invalidation
    commands
  iommufd: Iterate the cache invalidation array in the core
  iommufd/selftest: Convert cache invalidation mocks to the core array
    loop
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Convert cache invalidation to the core
    array loop
  iommu/vt-d: Convert nested cache invalidation to the core array loop

 include/linux/iommu.h                         |   6 +-
 include/linux/iommufd.h                       |   2 +
 include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h                  |   4 +-
 .../arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c     | 179 ++++++++++++++----
 drivers/iommu/intel/nested.c                  |  54 +++---
 drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c          |  25 ++-
 drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c              | 147 +++++++-------
 7 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)

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2.43.0




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