Hi Roger,

> On Oct 17, 2023, at 16:29, Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The mapping of memory regions below the 1MB mark was all done by the PVH dom0
> builder code, causing the region to be avoided by the arch specific IOMMU
> hardware domain initialization code.  That lead to the IOMMU being enabled
> without reserved regions in the low 1MB identity mapped in the p2m for PVH
> hardware domains.  Firmware which happens to be missing RMRR/IVMD ranges
> describing E820 reserved regions in the low 1MB would transiently trigger 
> IOMMU
> faults until the p2m is populated by the PVH dom0 builder:
> 
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:13.1 d0 addr 00000000000eb380 flags 0x20 RW
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:13.1 d0 addr 00000000000eb340 flags 0
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:13.2 d0 addr 00000000000ea1c0 flags 0
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:14.5 d0 addr 00000000000eb480 flags 0x20 RW
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:12.0 d0 addr 00000000000eb080 flags 0x20 RW
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:14.5 d0 addr 00000000000eb400 flags 0
> AMD-Vi: IO_PAGE_FAULT: 0000:00:12.0 d0 addr 00000000000eb040 flags 0
> 
> Those errors have been observed on the osstest pinot{0,1} boxes (AMD Fam15h
> Opteron(tm) Processor 3350 HE).
> 
> Rely on the IOMMU arch init code to create any identity mappings for reserved
> regions in the low 1MB range (like it already does for reserved regions
> elsewhere), and leave the mapping of any holes to be performed by the dom0
> builder code.
> 
> Fixes: 6b4f6a31ace1 ('x86/PVH: de-duplicate mappings for first Mb of Dom0 
> memory')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau MonnĂ© <[email protected]>

Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <[email protected]>

Kind regards,
Henry

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