[Freedreno] [PATCH 16/18] iommu: remove DOMAIN_ATTR_DMA_USE_FLUSH_QUEUE

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-03-30 14:58, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > > On 2021-03-30 14:11, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Instead make the global iommu_dma_strict paramete in iommu.c canonical by
> > > > > exporting helpers to get and set it and use those directly in the drivers.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This make sure that the iommu.strict parameter also works for the AMD and
> > > > > Intel IOMMU drivers on x86.  As those default to lazy flushing a new
> > > > > IOMMU_CMD_LINE_STRICT is used to turn the value into a tristate to
> > > > > represent the default if not overriden by an explicit parameter.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>.
> > > > > [ported on top of the other iommu_attr changes and added a few small
> > > > >    missing bits]
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/amd/iommu.c                   | 23 +-------
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 50 +---------------
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h |  1 -
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c       | 27 +--------
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c                   |  9 +--
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c                 | 64 ++++-----------------
> > > > >    drivers/iommu/iommu.c                       | 27 ++++++---
> > > > >    include/linux/iommu.h                       |  4 +-
> > > > >    8 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > I really like this cleanup, but I can't help wonder if it's going in the
> > > > wrong direction. With SoCs often having multiple IOMMU instances and a
> > > > distinction between "trusted" and "untrusted" devices, then having the
> > > > flush-queue enabled on a per-IOMMU or per-domain basis doesn't sound
> > > > unreasonable to me, but this change makes it a global property.
> > > 
> > > The intent here was just to streamline the existing behaviour of stuffing a
> > > global property into a domain attribute then pulling it out again in the
> > > illusion that it was in any way per-domain. We're still checking
> > > dev_is_untrusted() before making an actual decision, and it's not like we
> > > can't add more factors at that point if we want to.
> > 
> > Like I say, the cleanup is great. I'm just wondering whether there's a
> > better way to express the complicated logic to decide whether or not to use
> > the flush queue than what we end up with:
> > 
> > 	if (!cookie->fq_domain && (!dev || !dev_is_untrusted(dev)) &&
> > 	    domain->ops->flush_iotlb_all && !iommu_get_dma_strict())
> > 
> > which is mixing up globals, device properties and domain properties. The
> > result is that the driver code ends up just using the global to determine
> > whether or not to pass IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NON_STRICT to the page-table code,
> > which is a departure from the current way of doing things.
> 
> But previously, SMMU only ever saw the global policy piped through the
> domain attribute by iommu_group_alloc_default_domain(), so there's no
> functional change there.

For DMA domains sure, but I don't think that's the case for unmanaged
domains such as those used by VFIO.

> Obviously some of the above checks could be factored out into some kind of
> iommu_use_flush_queue() helper that IOMMU drivers can also call if they need
> to keep in sync. Or maybe we just allow iommu-dma to set
> IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NON_STRICT directly via iommu_set_pgtable_quirks() if we're
> treating that as a generic thing now.

I think a helper that takes a domain would be a good starting point.

Will