Re: [PATCH 0/6] IOMMU/DMA map_resource support for peer-to-peer

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On 2015/5/7 6:18, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Yijing, Dave J, Dave M, Alex]
> 
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:32:12PM -0500, wdavis@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Will Davis <wdavis@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch series adds DMA APIs to map and unmap a struct resource to and from
>> a PCI device's IOVA domain, and implements the AMD, Intel, and nommu versions
>> of these interfaces.
>>
>> This solves a long-standing problem with the existing DMA-remapping interfaces,
>> which require that a struct page be given for the region to be mapped into a
>> device's IOVA domain. This requirement cannot support peer device BAR ranges,
>> for which no struct pages exist.
>>
>> The underlying implementations of map_page and map_sg convert the struct page
>> into its physical address anyway, so we just need a way to route the physical
>> address of the BAR region to these implementations. The new interfaces do this
>> by taking the struct resource describing a device's BAR region, from which the
>> physical address is derived.
>>
>> The Intel and nommu versions have been verified on a dual Intel Xeon E5405
>> workstation. I'm in the process of obtaining hardware to test the AMD version
>> as well. Please review.
> 
> I think we currently assume there's no peer-to-peer traffic.
> 
> I don't know whether changing that will break anything, but I'm concerned
> about these:
> 
>   - PCIe MPS configuration (see pcie_bus_configure_settings()).

I think it should be ok for PCIe MPS configuration, PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER force every
device's MPS to 128B, what its concern is the TLP payload size. In this series, it
seems to only map a iova for device bar region.


> 
>   - PCIe ACS, e.g., pci_acs_enabled().  My guess is that this one is OK,
>     but Alex would know better.
> 
>   - dma_addr_t.  Currently dma_addr_t is big enough to hold any address
>     returned from the DMA API.  That's not necessarily big enough to hold a
>     PCI bus address, e.g., a raw BAR value.
> 
>> Will Davis (6):
>>   dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_resource
>>   DMA-API: Introduce dma_(un)map_resource
>>   dma-mapping: pci: add pci_(un)map_resource
>>   iommu/amd: Implement (un)map_resource
>>   iommu/vt-d: implement (un)map_resource
>>   x86: add pci-nommu implementation of map_resource
>>
>>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c              | 17 +++++++
>>  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c                | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>  drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c              | 18 ++++++++
>>  include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-broken.h |  9 ++++
>>  include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h | 34 ++++++++++++++
>>  include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h     | 14 ++++++
>>  include/linux/dma-debug.h                | 20 +++++++++
>>  include/linux/dma-mapping.h              |  7 +++
>>  lib/dma-debug.c                          | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  9 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
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> .
> 


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Thanks!
Yijing

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