[PATCH v4 1/2] iommu: Allow passing custom allocators to pgtable drivers

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at collabora.com
Fri Dec 15 00:43:01 PST 2023


This will be useful for GPU drivers who want to keep page tables in a
pool so they can:

- keep freed page tables in a free pool and speed-up upcoming page
  table allocations
- batch page table allocation instead of allocating one page at a time
- pre-reserve pages for page tables needed for map/unmap operations,
  to ensure map/unmap operations don't try to allocate memory in paths
  they're allowed to block or fail

It might also be valuable for other aspects of GPU and similar
use-cases, like fine-grained memory accounting and resource limiting.

We will extend the Arm LPAE format to support custom allocators in a
separate commit.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gaurav Kohli <quic_gkohli at quicinc.com>
Tested-by: Gaurav Kohli <quic_gkohli at quicinc.com>
---
v4:
- Add Gaurav's R-b/T-b
v3:
- Add Robin R-b
- Move caps definition around
- Add extra constraints to the ->alloc() callback documentation
v2:
- Add Steven R-b
- Expand on possible use-cases for custom allocators
- Add a caps fields to io_pgtable_init_fns so we can simplify the
  check_custom_allocator() logic (Robin Murphy)
---
 drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/io-pgtable.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
index b843fcd365d2..8841c1487f00 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
@@ -34,6 +34,26 @@ io_pgtable_init_table[IO_PGTABLE_NUM_FMTS] = {
 #endif
 };
 
+static int check_custom_allocator(enum io_pgtable_fmt fmt,
+				  struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg)
+{
+	/* No custom allocator, no need to check the format. */
+	if (!cfg->alloc && !cfg->free)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* When passing a custom allocator, both the alloc and free
+	 * functions should be provided.
+	 */
+	if (!cfg->alloc || !cfg->free)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* Make sure the format supports custom allocators. */
+	if (io_pgtable_init_table[fmt]->caps & IO_PGTABLE_CAP_CUSTOM_ALLOCATOR)
+		return 0;
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
 struct io_pgtable_ops *alloc_io_pgtable_ops(enum io_pgtable_fmt fmt,
 					    struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg,
 					    void *cookie)
@@ -44,6 +64,9 @@ struct io_pgtable_ops *alloc_io_pgtable_ops(enum io_pgtable_fmt fmt,
 	if (fmt >= IO_PGTABLE_NUM_FMTS)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (check_custom_allocator(fmt, cfg))
+		return NULL;
+
 	fns = io_pgtable_init_table[fmt];
 	if (!fns)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/include/linux/io-pgtable.h b/include/linux/io-pgtable.h
index 25142a0e2fc2..86cf1f7ae389 100644
--- a/include/linux/io-pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/io-pgtable.h
@@ -100,6 +100,30 @@ struct io_pgtable_cfg {
 	const struct iommu_flush_ops	*tlb;
 	struct device			*iommu_dev;
 
+	/**
+	 * @alloc: Custom page allocator.
+	 *
+	 * Optional hook used to allocate page tables. If this function is NULL,
+	 * @free must be NULL too.
+	 *
+	 * Memory returned should be zeroed and suitable for dma_map_single() and
+	 * virt_to_phys().
+	 *
+	 * Not all formats support custom page allocators. Before considering
+	 * passing a non-NULL value, make sure the chosen page format supports
+	 * this feature.
+	 */
+	void *(*alloc)(void *cookie, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);
+
+	/**
+	 * @free: Custom page de-allocator.
+	 *
+	 * Optional hook used to free page tables allocated with the @alloc
+	 * hook. Must be non-NULL if @alloc is not NULL, must be NULL
+	 * otherwise.
+	 */
+	void (*free)(void *cookie, void *pages, size_t size);
+
 	/* Low-level data specific to the table format */
 	union {
 		struct {
@@ -241,16 +265,26 @@ io_pgtable_tlb_add_page(struct io_pgtable *iop,
 		iop->cfg.tlb->tlb_add_page(gather, iova, granule, iop->cookie);
 }
 
+/**
+ * enum io_pgtable_caps - IO page table backend capabilities.
+ */
+enum io_pgtable_caps {
+	/** @IO_PGTABLE_CAP_CUSTOM_ALLOCATOR: Backend accepts custom page table allocators. */
+	IO_PGTABLE_CAP_CUSTOM_ALLOCATOR = BIT(0),
+};
+
 /**
  * struct io_pgtable_init_fns - Alloc/free a set of page tables for a
  *                              particular format.
  *
  * @alloc: Allocate a set of page tables described by cfg.
  * @free:  Free the page tables associated with iop.
+ * @caps:  Combination of @io_pgtable_caps flags encoding the backend capabilities.
  */
 struct io_pgtable_init_fns {
 	struct io_pgtable *(*alloc)(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg, void *cookie);
 	void (*free)(struct io_pgtable *iop);
+	u32 caps;
 };
 
 extern struct io_pgtable_init_fns io_pgtable_arm_32_lpae_s1_init_fns;
-- 
2.43.0




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