[PATCH 8/9] iommu: add support for ARM Ltd. System MMU architecture

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:23:18AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

The results were that the memory-to-memory DMA didn't show any corruption. I
also managed to tickle access faults by messing around with the permissions,
then remap the buffers and resume the transfers.

That sounds pretty conclusive. So when real hardware shows up it should
work reasonably well.

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+static struct arm_smmu_device *find_parent_smmu(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
+{
+	struct arm_smmu_device *parent, *tmp;
+
+	if (!smmu->parent_of_node)
+		return NULL;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(parent, tmp, &arm_smmu_devices, list)
+		if (parent->dev->of_node == smmu->parent_of_node)
+			return parent;

Why do you need the _safe variant here? You are not changing the list in
this loop so you should be fine with list_for_each_entry().

For a system with multiple SMMUs (regardless of chaining), couldn't this
code run in parallel with probing of another SMMU (which has to add to the
arm_smmu_devices list)? The same applies for device removal, which could
perhaps be driven from some power-managment code.

Well, the '_safe' does not mean it is safe from concurrent list
manipulations. If you want to protect from that you still need a lock.
The '_safe' variant only allows to remove the current element from the
list while traversing it.

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+	do {
+		phys_addr_t output_mask = (1ULL << smmu->s2_output_size) - 1;
+		if ((phys_addr_t)iova & ~output_mask)
+			return -ERANGE;
+	} while ((smmu = find_parent_smmu(smmu)));

This looks a bit too expensive to have in the map path. How about saving
something like an effective_output_mask (or output_size) which contains
the logical OR of every mask up the path? This would make this check a
lot cheaper.

As mentioned in the DT binding thread, it's rare that this loop would
execute more than once, and largely inconceivable that it would execute more
than twice, so I don't know how much we need to worry about the cost.

But still, this code is a challenge for the branch-predictor, plus
the additional function calls to find_parent_smmu(). I still think it is
worth to optimize this away. The map function is supposed to be a
fast-path function.


	Joerg