[PATCH v2 0/9] Remove SMMUv3 struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent
Samiullah Khawaja
skhawaja at google.com
Fri May 15 17:46:26 PDT 2026
On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 08:57:39PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>[ This is part of the patch pile to move SMMUv3 over to the generic page
>table:
>1) Introduction of new gather items and RISCV usage
> https://patch.msgid.link/r/0-v2-b5156f657dc1+25f-iommu_riscv_inv_jgg@nvidia.com
>2) Remove SMMUv3 struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent
>3) Organize the SMMUv3 invalidation flow so iommupt can use it
>4) Use the generic iommu page table for SMMUv3
>
>The whole branch is here:
> https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/commits/iommu_pt_arm64/
>]
>
>The invalidation logic has this multi-step process where it first
>writes the command into a 32 byte struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent, then it
>calls a function which converts it into a 16 byte HW struct, and
>sometimes it then edits the HW struct a little bit before passing it
>off to the batch or submission functions.
>
>Instead just generate the HW struct directly by moving the FIELD_PREP
>blocks out of the big case statement and into helper functions. Call the
>right function in all the places that were building arm_smmu_cmdq_ent.
>
>Add a type for the CMDQ entry similar to the STE/CD types that wraps the
>two u64s for clarity and use it everywhere.
>
>This is intended to have no functional change. It makes the following
>patches work better and removes a bunch of LOC. I've run several AI tools
>with instruction to look for functional changes, which did find one subtle
>mistake in PRI response.
>
>The removal of arm_smmu_cmdq_build_cmd() also achieves what Mostafa is
>doing in the pkvm series by making the command formation entirely header
>based with the arm_smmu_make_cmd_*() mini inlines.
>
>This series has no dependencies. Several people have already tested this
>on various ARM systems along with the full iommupt conversion.
>
>v2:
> - Collect tags and add a commit message note about ATS
>v1: https://patch.msgid.link/r/0-v1-b7dc0a0d4aa0+3723d-smmu_no_cmdq_ent_jgg@nvidia.com
>
>Jason Gunthorpe (9):
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add struct arm_smmu_cmd to represent the HW format
> command
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use the HW arm_smmu_cmd in cmdq selection functions
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use the HW arm_smmu_cmd in cmdq submission
> functions
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Convert arm_smmu_cmdq_batch cmds to struct
> arm_smmu_cmd
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove CMDQ_OP_CFGI_CD_ALL from
> arm_smmu_cmdq_build_cmd()
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Directly encode simple commands
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Directly encode CMDQ_OP_ATC_INV
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Directly encode CMDQ_OP_SYNC
> iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Directly encode TLBI commands
>
> .../arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c | 24 +-
> drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 475 +++++++-----------
> drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 248 +++++----
> .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/tegra241-cmdqv.c | 16 +-
> 4 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 413 deletions(-)
>
>
>base-commit: d8fa633ffaf43316bc3ee8d7b21366cc92c02002
>--
>2.43.0
>
>
Sanity tested on non-coherent rockchip rk3588s with nvme.
Tested-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja at google.com>
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