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Nadav Amit a270be1b3f iommu/amd: Use only natural aligned flushes in a VM
When running on an AMD vIOMMU, it is better to avoid TLB flushes
of unmodified PTEs. vIOMMUs require the hypervisor to synchronize the
virtualized IOMMU's PTEs with the physical ones. This process induce
overheads.

AMD IOMMU allows us to flush any range that is aligned to the power of
2. So when running on top of a vIOMMU, break the range into sub-ranges
that are naturally aligned, and flush each one separately. This apporach
is better when running with a vIOMMU, but on physical IOMMUs, the
penalty of IOTLB misses due to unnecessary flushed entries is likely to
be low.

Repurpose (i.e., keeping the name, changing the logic)
domain_flush_pages() so it is used to choose whether to perform one
flush of the whole range or multiple ones to avoid flushing unnecessary
ranges. Use NpCache, as usual, to infer whether the IOMMU is physical or
virtual.

Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiajun Cao <caojiajun@vmware.com>
Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210723093209.714328-8-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
2021-08-02 11:26:06 +02:00
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certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
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drivers iommu/amd: Use only natural aligned flushes in a VM 2021-08-02 11:26:06 +02:00
fs 5 cifs/smb3 fixes, including a DFS failover fix, 2 fallocate fixes, and 2 trivial coverity cleanups 2021-07-24 17:26:47 -07:00
include iommu: Factor iommu_iotlb_gather_is_disjoint() out 2021-08-02 11:26:05 +02:00
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kernel smpboot: fix duplicate and misplaced inlining directive 2021-07-25 11:06:37 -07:00
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mm mm: fix the deadlock in finish_fault() 2021-07-23 17:43:28 -07:00
net net: sched: cls_api: Fix the the wrong parameter 2021-07-22 00:48:03 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 2021-07-18 11:10:30 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.14-rc3 2021-07-23 09:58:23 -07:00
tools selftest: use mmap instead of posix_memalign to allocate memory 2021-07-23 17:43:28 -07:00
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virt * Allow again loading KVM on 32-bit non-PAE builds 2021-07-15 11:56:07 -07:00
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