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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/15] PCI/iommu: Fix DMA alias problems
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On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 07:40 +0800, Andrew Cooks wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> > ....
> >
> > Original description:
> >
> > This series attempts to fix a couple issues we've had outstanding in
> > the PCI/IOMMU code for a while. The first issue is with devices that
> > use the wrong requester ID for DMA transactions. We already have a
> > sort of half-baked attempt to fix this for several Ricoh devices, but
> > the fix only helps them be useful through IOMMU groups, not the
> > general DMA case. There are also several Marvell devices which use
> > use a different wrong requester ID and don't even fit into the DMA
> > source idea. This series creates a DMA alias iterator that will
> > step through each possible alias of a device, allowing IOMMUs to
> > insert mappings for both the device and its aliases.
> >
> > Hand-in-hand with this is our broken pci_find_upstream_pcie_bridge()
> > function, which is known to blowup when it finds itself suddenly at
> > a PCIe device without crossing a PCIe-to-PCI bridge (as identified by
> > the PCIe capability). It also likes to make the invalid assumption
> > that a PCIe device never has its requester ID masked by any usptream
> > bus. We can fix this using the above new DMA alias iterator, since
> > that's effectively what this function was meant to do.
> >
>
> There are two cases where the DMA requester id seems to use the wrong
> slot (as opposed to function) in the patch I attached to
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42679
> The original bug reports are listed in the patch.
>
> Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get test feedback on those two cases,
> but I'm wondering...
> Did I understand correctly that a slot alias is something that could be needed?
> If so, is it a variation of the PCIe-to-PCI bridge case that's already
> covered or will it require a different approach?

Wow, I didn't think that kind of broken was possible. Maybe instead of
a bitmap of function aliases we could have a single devfn alias for a
device. That means we'd only be able to support a single alias for a
device, but since I don't think we've seen devices that use more than a
single alias, maybe that's ok. I'll see what changes we'd need to make
for that, but I probably won't go adding the actual quirk based on those
old reports. Thanks,

Alex



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