Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tian, Kevin" <> | Subject | RE: A problem of Intel IOMMU hardware ? | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:56:10 +0000 |
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> From: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) > <longpeng2@huawei.com> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.tian@intel.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:27 PM > > To: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) > > <longpeng2@huawei.com>; Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> > > Cc: chenjiashang <chenjiashang@huawei.com>; David Woodhouse > > <dwmw2@infradead.org>; iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org; LKML > > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; alex.williamson@redhat.com; Gonglei > (Arei) > > <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>; will@kernel.org > > Subject: RE: A problem of Intel IOMMU hardware ? > > > > > From: iommu <iommu-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org> On Behalf Of > > > Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) > > > > > > > 2. Consider ensuring that the problem is not somehow related to > > > > queued invalidations. Try to use __iommu_flush_iotlb() instead of > > qi_flush_iotlb(). > > > > > > > > > > I tried to force to use __iommu_flush_iotlb(), but maybe something > > > wrong, the system crashed, so I prefer to lower the priority of this > operation. > > > > > > > The VT-d spec clearly says that register-based invalidation can be used only > when > > queued-invalidations are not enabled. Intel-IOMMU driver doesn't provide > an > > option to disable queued-invalidation though, when the hardware is > capable. If you > > really want to try, tweak the code in intel_iommu_init_qi. > > > > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks to point out this. Do you have any ideas about this problem ? I tried > to descript the problem much clear in my reply to Alex, hope you could have > a look if you're interested. >
btw I saw you used 4.18 kernel in this test. What about latest kernel?
Also one way to separate sw/hw bug is to trace the low level interface (e.g., qi_flush_iotlb) which actually sends invalidation descriptors to the IOMMU hardware. Check the window between b) and c) and see whether the software does the right thing as expected there.
Thanks Kevin
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