[PATCH 2/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add IOMMU_LLC page protection flag

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Fri Jan 29 09:05:16 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 07:45:04PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> Add a new page protection flag IOMMU_LLC which can be used
> by non-coherent masters to set cacheable memory attributes
> for an outer level of cache called as last-level cache or
> system cache. Initial user of this page protection flag is
> the adreno gpu and then can later be used by other clients
> such as video where this can be used for per-buffer based
> mapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 3 +++
>  include/linux/iommu.h          | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> index 7439ee7fdcdb..ebe653ef601b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ static arm_lpae_iopte arm_lpae_prot_to_pte(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data,
>  		else if (prot & IOMMU_CACHE)
>  			pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_CACHE
>  				<< ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
> +		else if (prot & IOMMU_LLC)
> +			pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE
> +				<< ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (prot & IOMMU_CACHE)
> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> index ffaa389ea128..1f82057df531 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
>   * if the IOMMU page table format is equivalent.
>   */
>  #define IOMMU_PRIV	(1 << 5)
> +/*
> + * Non-coherent masters can use this page protection flag to set cacheable
> + * memory attributes for only a transparent outer level of cache, also known as
> + * the last-level or system cache.
> + */
> +#define IOMMU_LLC	(1 << 6)

On reflection, I'm a bit worried about exposing this because I think it will
introduce a mismatched virtual alias with the CPU (we don't even have a MAIR
set up for this memory type). Now, we also have that issue for the PTW, but
since we always use cache maintenance (i.e. the streaming API) for
publishing the page-tables to a non-coheren walker, it works out. However,
if somebody expects IOMMU_LLC to be coherent with a DMA API coherent
allocation, then they're potentially in for a nasty surprise due to the
mismatched outer-cacheability attributes.

So I can take patch (1) as a trivial rename, but unfortunately I think this
needs more thought before exposing it beyond the PTW.

Will


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