RE: [PATCH v3 3/9] ACPI/IORT: Support CANWBS memory access flag

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> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:23 AM
> 
> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The IORT spec, Issue E.f (April 2024), adds a new CANWBS bit to the Memory
> Access Flag field in the Memory Access Properties table, mainly for a PCI
> Root Complex.
> 
> This CANWBS defines the coherency of memory accesses to be not marked
> IOWB
> cacheable/shareable. Its value further implies the coherency impact from a
> pair of mismatched memory attributes (e.g. in a nested translation case):
>   0x0: Use of mismatched memory attributes for accesses made by this
>        device may lead to a loss of coherency.
>   0x1: Coherency of accesses made by this device to locations in
>        Conventional memory are ensured as follows, even if the memory
>        attributes for the accesses presented by the device or provided by
>        the SMMU are different from Inner and Outer Write-back cacheable,
>        Shareable.
> 
> Note that the loss of coherency on a CANWBS-unsupported HW typically
> could
> occur to an SMMU that doesn't implement the S2FWB feature where
> additional
> cache flush operations would be required to prevent that from happening.
> 
> Add a new ACPI_IORT_MF_CANWBS flag and set
> IOMMU_FWSPEC_PCI_RC_CANWBS upon
> the presence of this new flag.
> 
> CANWBS and S2FWB are similar features, in that they both guarantee the VM
> can not violate coherency, however S2FWB can be bypassed by PCI No Snoop
> TLPs, while CANWBS cannot. Thus CANWBS meets the requirements to set
> IOMMU_CAP_ENFORCE_CACHE_COHERENCY.
> 
> Architecturally ARM has expected that VFIO would disable No Snoop through
> PCI Config space, if this is done then the two would have the same
> protections.
> 
> Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>





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