Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio/type1: Cope with hardware MSI reserved regions

From: Auger Eric
Date: Sun Jul 30 2017 - 06:39:55 EST


Hi Robin,
On 27/07/2017 16:54, Robin Murphy wrote:
> For ARM-based systems with a GICv3 ITS to provide interrupt isolation,
> but hardware limitations which are worked around by having MSIs bypass
> SMMU translation (e.g. HiSilicon Hip06/Hip07), VFIO neglects to check
> for the IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAG_MSI_REMAP capability, (and thus erroneously
> demands unsafe_interrupts) if a software-managed MSI region is absent.
>
> Fix this by always checking for isolation capability at both the IRQ
> domain and IOMMU domain levels, rather than predicating that on whether
> MSIs require an IOMMU mapping (which was always slightly tenuous logic).
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Eric

> ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index 8549cb111627..2328be628f21 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -1265,8 +1265,8 @@ static int vfio_iommu_type1_attach_group(void *iommu_data,
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&domain->group_list);
> list_add(&group->next, &domain->group_list);
>
> - msi_remap = resv_msi ? irq_domain_check_msi_remap() :
> - iommu_capable(bus, IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP);
> + msi_remap = irq_domain_check_msi_remap() ||
> + iommu_capable(bus, IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP);
>
> if (!allow_unsafe_interrupts && !msi_remap) {
> pr_warn("%s: No interrupt remapping support. Use the module param \"allow_unsafe_interrupts\" to enable VFIO IOMMU support on this platform\n",
>