On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 03:19:20PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > PCI ATS has a global Smallest Translation Unit field that is located in > the PF but shared by all of the VFs. > > The expectation is that the STU will be set to the root port's global STU > capability which is driven by the IO page table configuration of the iommu > HW. Today it becomes set when the iommu driver first enables ATS. > > Thus, to enable ATS on the VF, the PF must have already had the correct > STU programmed, even if ATS is off on the PF. > > Unfortunately the PF only programs the STU when the PF enables ATS. The > iommu drivers tend to leave ATS disabled when IDENTITY translation is > being used. > > Thus we can get into a state where the PF is setup to use IDENTITY with > the DMA API while the VF would like to use VFIO with a PAGING domain and > have ATS turned on. This fails because the PF never loaded a PAGING domain > and so it never setup the STU, and the VF can't do it. > > The simplest solution is to have the iommu driver set the ATS STU when it > probes the device. This way the ATS STU is loaded immediately at boot time > to all PFs and there is no issue when a VF comes to use it. > > Add a new call pci_prepare_ats() which should be called by iommu drivers > in their probe_device() op for every PCI device if the iommu driver > supports ATS. This will setup the STU based on whatever page size > capability the iommu HW has. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/iommu/amd/iommu.c | 3 ++ > drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 6 ++++ > drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 1 + > drivers/pci/ats.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/pci-ats.h | 1 + > 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+) Applied, thanks.