[PATCH v7 12/15] iommupt: Add the x86 64 bit page table format

Vasant Hegde vasant.hegde at amd.com
Fri Oct 31 02:51:38 PDT 2025


On 10/23/2025 11:50 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This is used by x86 CPUs and can be used in AMD/VT-d x86 IOMMUs. When a
> x86 IOMMU is running SVA the MM will be using this format.
> 
> This implementation follows the AMD v2 io-pgtable version.
> 
> There is nothing remarkable here, the format can have 4 or 5 levels and
> limited support for different page sizes. No contiguous pages support.
> 
> x86 uses a sign extension mechanism where the top bits of the VA must
> match the sign bit. The core code supports this through
> PT_FEAT_SIGN_EXTEND which creates and upper and lower VA range. All the
> new operations will work correctly in both spaces, however currently there
> is no way to report the upper space to other layers. Future patches can
> improve that.
> 
> In principle this can support 3 page tables levels matching the 32 bit PAE
> table format, but no iommu driver needs this. The focus is on the modern
> 64 bit 4 and 5 level formats.
> 
> Comparing the performance of several operations to the existing version:
> 
> iommu_map()
>    pgsz  ,avg new,old ns, min new,old ns  , min % (+ve is better)
>      2^12,     71,61    ,      66,58      , -13.13
>      2^21,     66,60    ,      61,55      , -10.10
>      2^30,     59,56    ,      56,54      ,  -3.03
>  256*2^12,    392,1360  ,     345,1289    ,  73.73
>  256*2^21,    383,1159  ,     335,1145    ,  70.70
>  256*2^30,    378,965   ,     331,892     ,  62.62
> 
> iommu_unmap()
>    pgsz  ,avg new,old ns, min new,old ns  , min % (+ve is better)
>      2^12,     77,71    ,      73,68      ,  -7.07
>      2^21,     76,70    ,      70,66      ,  -6.06
>      2^30,     69,66    ,      66,63      ,  -4.04
>  256*2^12,    225,899   ,     210,870     ,  75.75
>  256*2^21,    262,722   ,     248,710     ,  65.65
>  256*2^30,    251,643   ,     244,634     ,  61.61
> 
> The small -ve values in the iommu_unmap() are due to the core code calling
> iommu_pgsize() before invoking the domain op. This is unncessary with this
> implementation. Future work optimizes this and gets to 2%, 4%, 3%.
> 
> Tested-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>


Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde at amd.com>

> ---
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/.kunitconfig       |   1 +
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/Kconfig            |  11 +
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/Makefile       |   2 +
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/defs_x86_64.h  |  21 ++
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/iommu_x86_64.c |  11 +
>  drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/x86_64.h       | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/generic_pt/common.h           |  13 +
>  include/linux/generic_pt/iommu.h            |  11 +
>  8 files changed, 329 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/defs_x86_64.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/iommu_x86_64.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/x86_64.h
> 

.../...


> +
> +/* Shared descriptor bits */
> +enum {
> +	X86_64_FMT_P = BIT(0),
> +	X86_64_FMT_RW = BIT(1),
> +	X86_64_FMT_U = BIT(2),
> +	X86_64_FMT_A = BIT(5),
> +	X86_64_FMT_D = BIT(6),
> +	X86_64_FMT_OA = GENMASK_ULL(51, 12),
> +	X86_64_FMT_XD = BIT_ULL(63),
> +};
> +
> +/* PDPTE/PDE */
> +enum {
> +	X86_64_FMT_PS = BIT(7),
> +};
> +
> +#define common_to_x86_64_pt(common_ptr) \
> +	container_of_const(common_ptr, struct pt_x86_64, common)
> +#define to_x86_64_pt(pts) common_to_x86_64_pt((pts)->range->common)

Unused macros?

-Vasant





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