linux-stable/drivers/vfio
Will Deacon 6d1bcb957b iommu: Remove empty iommu_tlb_range_add() callback from iommu_ops
Commit add02cfdc9 ("iommu: Introduce Interface for IOMMU TLB Flushing")
added three new TLB flushing operations to the IOMMU API so that the
underlying driver operations can be batched when unmapping large regions
of IO virtual address space.

However, the ->iotlb_range_add() callback has not been implemented by
any IOMMU drivers (amd_iommu.c implements it as an empty function, which
incurs the overhead of an indirect branch). Instead, drivers either flush
the entire IOTLB in the ->iotlb_sync() callback or perform the necessary
invalidation during ->unmap().

Attempting to implement ->iotlb_range_add() for arm-smmu-v3.c revealed
two major issues:

  1. The page size used to map the region in the page-table is not known,
     and so it is not generally possible to issue TLB flushes in the most
     efficient manner.

  2. The only mutable state passed to the callback is a pointer to the
     iommu_domain, which can be accessed concurrently and therefore
     requires expensive synchronisation to keep track of the outstanding
     flushes.

Remove the callback entirely in preparation for extending ->unmap() and
->iotlb_sync() to update a token on the caller's stack.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-07-24 13:32:33 +01:00
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mdev VFIO updates for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-17 11:23:13 -07:00
pci vfio: vfio_pci_nvlink2: use a vma helper function 2019-07-02 11:44:12 -06:00
platform treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 201 2019-05-30 11:29:52 -07:00
Kconfig docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vfio.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c mm: add account_locked_vm utility function 2019-07-16 19:23:25 -07:00
vfio_iommu_type1.c iommu: Remove empty iommu_tlb_range_add() callback from iommu_ops 2019-07-24 13:32:33 +01:00
vfio_spapr_eeh.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
virqfd.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00