Hi Bjorn,

On 3/1/22 3:56 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 08:50:51AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
If a switch lacks ACS P2P Request Redirect, a device below the switch can
bypass the IOMMU and DMA directly to other devices below the switch, so
all the downstream devices must be in the same IOMMU group as the switch
itself.

The existing VFIO framework allows the portdrv driver to be bound to the
bridge while its downstream devices are assigned to user space. The
pci_dma_configure() marks the IOMMU group as containing only devices
with kernel drivers that manage DMA. Avoid this default behavior for the
portdrv driver in order for compatibility with the current VFIO usage.

It would be nice to explicitly say here how we can look at portdrv
(and pci_stub) and conclude that ".driver_managed_dma = true" is safe.

Otherwise I won't know what kind of future change to portdrv might
make it unsafe.

Fair enough. We can add below words:

We achieve this by setting ".driver_managed_dma = true" in pci_driver
structure. It is safe because the portdrv driver meets below criteria:

- This driver doesn't use DMA, as you can't find any related calls like
  pci_set_master() or any kernel DMA API (dma_map_*() and etc.).
- It doesn't use MMIO as you can't find ioremap() or similar calls. It's
  tolerant to userspace possibly also touching the same MMIO registers
  via P2P DMA access.


Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com>

Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com>

Thank you!

Best regards,
baolu


---
  drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c
index 35eca6277a96..6b2adb678c21 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ static struct pci_driver pcie_portdriver = {
.err_handler = &pcie_portdrv_err_handler, + .driver_managed_dma = true,
+
        .driver.pm      = PCIE_PORTDRV_PM_OPS,
  };
--
2.25.1

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