Origins at :
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2021-October/thread.html
=== Changes from v1 => v2 ===
a)
Improved patch-description.
b)
A more root-level fix, as suggested by
1.
Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
2.
Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com>
=== Issue ===
Kernel-flooding is seen, when an x86_64 L1 guest (Ubuntu-21) is booted in
qemu/kvm
on a x86_64 host (Ubuntu-21), with a host-pci-device attached.
Following kind of logs, along with the stacktraces, cause the flood :
......
DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x428ec already set (to 3f6ec003 not 3f6ec003)
DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x428ed already set (to 3f6ed003 not 3f6ed003)
DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x428ee already set (to 3f6ee003 not 3f6ee003)
DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x428ef already set (to 3f6ef003 not 3f6ef003)
DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x428f0 already set (to 3f6f0003 not 3f6f0003)
......
=== Current Behaviour, leading to the issue ===
Currently, when we do a dma-unmapping, we unmap/unlink the mappings, but
the pte-entries are not cleared.
Thus, following sequencing would flood the kernel-logs :
i)
A dma-unmapping makes the real/leaf-level pte-slot invalid, but the
pte-content itself is not cleared.
ii)
Now, during some later dma-mapping procedure, as the pte-slot is about
to hold a new pte-value, the intel-iommu checks if a prior
pte-entry exists in the pte-slot. If it exists, it logs a kernel-error,
along with a corresponding stacktrace.
iii)
Step ii) runs in abundance, and the kernel-logs run insane.
=== Fix ===
We ensure that as part of a dma-unmapping, each (unmapped) pte-slot
is also cleared of its value/content (at the leaf-level, where the
real mapping from a iova => pfn mapping is stored).
This completes a "deep" dma-unmapping.
Signed-off-by: Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
index d75f59ae28e6..485a8ea71394 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
@@ -5090,6 +5090,8 @@ static size_t intel_iommu_unmap(struct iommu_domain
*domain,
gather->freelist = domain_unmap(dmar_domain, start_pfn,
last_pfn, gather->freelist);
+ dma_pte_clear_range(dmar_domain, start_pfn, last_pfn);
+
if (dmar_domain->max_addr == iova + size)
dmar_domain->max_addr = iova;
--
2.30.2
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