[PATCH kernel 3/3] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Do not use H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT in secure VM

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Fri Dec 13 19:45:37 AEDT 2019


H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT uses a 4K page with TCEs to allow handling up to 512
TCEs per hypercall. While it is a decent optimization, we rather share
less of secure VM memory so let's avoid sharing.

This only allows H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT for normal (not secure) VMs.

This keeps using H_STUFF_TCE as it does not require sharing.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
---

Possible alternatives are:

1. define FW_FEATURE_STUFFTCE (to allow H_STUFF_TCE) in addition to
FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE (make it only enable H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT) and enable
only FW_FEATURE_STUFFTCE for SVM; pro = no SVM mention in iommu.c,
con = a FW feature bit with very limited use

2. disable FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE and loose H_STUFF_TCE which adds a delay
in booting process
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
index f6e9b87c82fc..2334a67c7614 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static int tce_buildmulti_pSeriesLP(struct iommu_table *tbl, long tcenum,
 	int ret = 0;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if ((npages == 1) || !firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE)) {
+	if ((npages == 1) || !firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE) ||
+			is_secure_guest()) {
 		return tce_build_pSeriesLP(tbl->it_index, tcenum,
 					   tbl->it_page_shift, npages, uaddr,
 		                           direction, attrs);
@@ -402,7 +403,8 @@ static int tce_setrange_multi_pSeriesLP(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	u64 rc = 0;
 	long l, limit;
 
-	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE)) {
+	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE) ||
+			is_secure_guest()) {
 		unsigned long tceshift = be32_to_cpu(maprange->tce_shift);
 		unsigned long dmastart = (start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) +
 				be64_to_cpu(maprange->dma_base);
-- 
2.17.1



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