Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iommu/sva: Invalidate KVA range on kernel TLB flush

[Vasant Hegde]

Hi Lu, Jason,


On 7/17/2025 7:13 AM, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 7/16/25 20:08, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 02:34:04PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
>>>>> @@ -654,6 +656,9 @@ struct iommu_ops {
>>>>>
>>>>>        int (*def_domain_type)(struct device *dev);
>>>>>
>>>>> +    void (*paging_cache_invalidate)(struct iommu_device *dev,
>>>>> +                    unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
>>>>
>>>> How would you even implement this in a driver?
>>>>
>>>> You either flush the whole iommu, in which case who needs a rage, or
>>>> the driver has to iterate over the PASID list, in which case it
>>>> doesn't really improve the situation.
>>>
>>> The Intel iommu driver supports flushing all SVA PASIDs with a single
>>> request in the invalidation queue.
>>
>> How? All PASID !=0 ? The HW has no notion about a SVA PASID vs no-SVA
>> else. This is just flushing almost everything.
> 
> The intel iommu driver allocates a dedicated domain id for all sva
> domains. It can flush all cache entries with that domain id tagged.

AMD IOMMU has INVALIDATE_IOMMU_ALL which flushes everything in IOMMU TLB. This
is heavy hammer. But should be OK for short term solution?

I don't think this command is supported inside the guest (I will double check).
But we don't have HW-vIOMMU support yet. So PASID inside guest is not yet supported.


-Vasant