Re: [PATCH 0/6] iommu: Enable devices to request non-strict DMA, starting with QCom SD/MMC

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On 22/06/2021 00:52, Douglas Anderson wrote:

This patch attempts to put forward a proposal for enabling non-strict
DMA on a device-by-device basis. The patch series requests non-strict
DMA for the Qualcomm SDHCI controller as a first device to enable,
getting a nice bump in performance with what's believed to be a very
small drop in security / safety (see the patch for the full argument).

As part of this patch series I am end up slightly cleaning up some of
the interactions between the PCI subsystem and the IOMMU subsystem but
I don't go all the way to fully remove all the tentacles. Specifically
this patch series only concerns itself with a single aspect: strict
vs. non-strict mode for the IOMMU. I'm hoping that this will be easier
to talk about / reason about for more subsystems compared to overall
deciding what it means for a device to be "external" or "untrusted".

If something like this patch series ends up being landable, it will
undoubtedly need coordination between many maintainers to land. I
believe it's fully bisectable but later patches in the series
definitely depend on earlier ones. Sorry for the long CC list. :(


JFYI, In case to missed it, and I know it's not the same thing as you want, above, but the following series will allow you to build the kernel to default to lazy mode:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/1624016058-189713-1-git-send-email-john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m21bc07b9353b3ba85f2a40557645c2bcc13cbb3e

So iommu.strict=0 would be no longer always required for arm64.

Thanks,
John



Douglas Anderson (6):
   drivers: base: Add the concept of "pre_probe" to drivers
   drivers: base: Add bits to struct device to control iommu strictness
   PCI: Indicate that we want to force strict DMA for untrusted devices
   iommu: Combine device strictness requests with the global default
   iommu: Stop reaching into PCIe devices to decide strict vs. non-strict
   mmc: sdhci-msm: Request non-strict IOMMU mode

  drivers/base/dd.c             | 10 +++++--
  drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c     |  2 +-
  drivers/iommu/iommu.c         | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-msm.c  |  8 +++++
  drivers/pci/probe.c           |  4 ++-
  include/linux/device.h        | 11 +++++++
  include/linux/device/driver.h |  9 ++++++
  include/linux/iommu.h         |  2 ++
  8 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)





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