The ARM architecture has a "Top Byte Ignore" (TBI) option that makes the MMU mask out bits [63:56] of an address, allowing a userspace application to store data in its pointers. This option is incompatible with PCI ATS. If TBI is enabled in the SMMU and userspace triggers DMA transactions on tagged pointers, the endpoint might create ATC entries for addresses that include a tag. Software would then have to send ATC invalidation packets for each 255 possible alias of an address, or just wipe the whole address space. This is not a viable option, so disable TBI. The impact of this change is unclear, since there are very few users of tagged pointers, much less SVM. But the requirement introduced by this patch doesn't seem excessive: a userspace application using both tagged pointers and SVM should now sanitize addresses (clear the tag) before using them for device DMA. Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c index 87ed6239b9a6..0b2674f8ba0f 100644 --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c @@ -997,7 +997,6 @@ static u64 arm_smmu_cpu_tcr_to_cd(u64 tcr) val |= ARM_SMMU_TCR2CD(tcr, EPD0); val |= ARM_SMMU_TCR2CD(tcr, EPD1); val |= ARM_SMMU_TCR2CD(tcr, IPS); - val |= ARM_SMMU_TCR2CD(tcr, TBI0); return val; } -- 2.12.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
