Hi, Alex,
Happen to see that we may have inconsistent policy about RMRR devices cross
different vendors.
Previously only Intel supports RMRR. Now both AMD/ARM have similar thing,
AMD IVMD and ARM RMR.
RMRR identity mapping was considered unsafe (except for USB/GPU) for
device assignment:
/*
* There are a couple cases where we need to restrict the functionality of
* devices associated with RMRRs. The first is when evaluating a device for
* identity mapping because problems exist when devices are moved in and out
* of domains and their respective RMRR information is lost. This means that
* a device with associated RMRRs will never be in a "passthrough" domain.
* The second is use of the device through the IOMMU API. This interface
* expects to have full control of the IOVA space for the device. We cannot
* satisfy both the requirement that RMRR access is maintained and have an
* unencumbered IOVA space. We also have no ability to quiesce the device's
* use of the RMRR space or even inform the IOMMU API user of the restriction.
* We therefore prevent devices associated with an RMRR from participating in
* the IOMMU API, which eliminates them from device assignment.
*
* In both cases, devices which have relaxable RMRRs are not concerned by this
* restriction. See device_rmrr_is_relaxable comment.
*/
static bool device_is_rmrr_locked(struct device *dev)
{
if (!device_has_rmrr(dev))
return false;
if (device_rmrr_is_relaxable(dev))
return false;
return true;
}
Then non-relaxable RMRR device is rejected when doing attach:
static int intel_iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain,
struct device *dev)
{
struct device_domain_info *info = dev_iommu_priv_get(dev);
int ret;
if (domain->type == IOMMU_DOMAIN_UNMANAGED &&
device_is_rmrr_locked(dev)) {
dev_warn(dev, "Device is ineligible for IOMMU domain attach due to platform RMRR requirement. Contact your platform vendor.\n");
return -EPERM;
}
...
}
But I didn't find the same check in AMD/ARM driver at a glance.
Did I overlook some arch difference which makes RMRR device safe in
those platforms or is it a gap to be fixed?
Thanks
Kevin
