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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-21 22:28:13 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-21 22:28:13 +0300 |
commit | 3fd33273a4675e819544ccbbf8d769e14672666b (patch) | |
tree | de1dc2f55a4d6f6445ac622eb67ed89103574403 /Documentation | |
parent | eaa54b1458ca84092e513d554dd6d234245e6bef (diff) | |
parent | 83aa52ffed5d35a08e24452d0471e1684075cdf8 (diff) | |
download | linux-3fd33273a4675e819544ccbbf8d769e14672666b.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'x86-pasid-2022-03-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 PASID support from Thomas Gleixner:
"Reenable ENQCMD/PASID support:
- Simplify the PASID handling to allocate the PASID once, associate
it to the mm of a process and free it on mm_exit().
The previous attempt of refcounted PASIDs and dynamic
alloc()/free() turned out to be error prone and too complex. The
PASID space is 20bits, so the case of resource exhaustion is a pure
academic concern.
- Populate the PASID MSR on demand via #GP to avoid racy updates via
IPIs.
- Reenable ENQCMD and let objtool check for the forbidden usage of
ENQCMD in the kernel.
- Update the documentation for Shared Virtual Addressing accordingly"
* tag 'x86-pasid-2022-03-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/x86: Update documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
tools/objtool: Check for use of the ENQCMD instruction in the kernel
x86/cpufeatures: Re-enable ENQCMD
x86/traps: Demand-populate PASID MSR via #GP
sched: Define and initialize a flag to identify valid PASID in the task
x86/fpu: Clear PASID when copying fpstate
iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit
kernel/fork: Initialize mm's PASID
iommu/ioasid: Introduce a helper to check for valid PASIDs
mm: Change CONFIG option for mm->pasid field
iommu/sva: Rename CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA_LIB to CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/sva.rst | 53 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/sva.rst b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst index 076efd51ef1f..2e9b8b0f9a0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/sva.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/sva.rst @@ -104,18 +104,47 @@ The MSR must be configured on each logical CPU before any application thread can interact with a device. Threads that belong to the same process share the same page tables, thus the same MSR value. -PASID is cleared when a process is created. The PASID allocation and MSR -programming may occur long after a process and its threads have been created. -One thread must call iommu_sva_bind_device() to allocate the PASID for the -process. If a thread uses ENQCMD without the MSR first being populated, a #GP -will be raised. The kernel will update the PASID MSR with the PASID for all -threads in the process. A single process PASID can be used simultaneously -with multiple devices since they all share the same address space. - -One thread can call iommu_sva_unbind_device() to free the allocated PASID. -The kernel will clear the PASID MSR for all threads belonging to the process. - -New threads inherit the MSR value from the parent. +PASID Life Cycle Management +=========================== + +PASID is initialized as INVALID_IOASID (-1) when a process is created. + +Only processes that access SVA-capable devices need to have a PASID +allocated. This allocation happens when a process opens/binds an SVA-capable +device but finds no PASID for this process. Subsequent binds of the same, or +other devices will share the same PASID. + +Although the PASID is allocated to the process by opening a device, +it is not active in any of the threads of that process. It's loaded to the +IA32_PASID MSR lazily when a thread tries to submit a work descriptor +to a device using the ENQCMD. + +That first access will trigger a #GP fault because the IA32_PASID MSR +has not been initialized with the PASID value assigned to the process +when the device was opened. The Linux #GP handler notes that a PASID has +been allocated for the process, and so initializes the IA32_PASID MSR +and returns so that the ENQCMD instruction is re-executed. + +On fork(2) or exec(2) the PASID is removed from the process as it no +longer has the same address space that it had when the device was opened. + +On clone(2) the new task shares the same address space, so will be +able to use the PASID allocated to the process. The IA32_PASID is not +preemptively initialized as the PASID value might not be allocated yet or +the kernel does not know whether this thread is going to access the device +and the cleared IA32_PASID MSR reduces context switch overhead by xstate +init optimization. Since #GP faults have to be handled on any threads that +were created before the PASID was assigned to the mm of the process, newly +created threads might as well be treated in a consistent way. + +Due to complexity of freeing the PASID and clearing all IA32_PASID MSRs in +all threads in unbind, free the PASID lazily only on mm exit. + +If a process does a close(2) of the device file descriptor and munmap(2) +of the device MMIO portal, then the driver will unbind the device. The +PASID is still marked VALID in the PASID_MSR for any threads in the +process that accessed the device. But this is harmless as without the +MMIO portal they cannot submit new work to the device. Relationships ============= |