[PATCH RFCv1 0/3] Allow ATS to be always on for certain ATS-capable devices
From: Nicolin Chen <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-17 04:57:02
Also in:
linux-iommu, linux-pci, lkml
PCI ATS function is controlled by IOMMU driver calling pci_enable_ats() and pci_disable_ats() helpers. In general, IOMMU driver only enables ATS, when a translation channel is enabled on a PASID, typically for an SVA use case. When a device's RID is IOMMU bypassed and there is no active PASID running SVA use case, ATS is always disabled. However, certain pcie devices support non-PASID ATS on its RID, even if the RID is IOMMU bypassed. E.g. CXL.cache capability requires ATS to access the physical memory; some NVIDIA GPUs in non-CXL configuration also support ATS on a bypassed RID. Provide a helper function to detect CXL.cache capability and scan through a device ID list. As the initial use case, call the helper in ARM SMMUv3 driver and adapt the driver accordingly with a per-device ats_always_on flag. This is on Github: https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/pci_ats_always_on-rfcv1/ Nicolin Chen (3): PCI: Allow ATS to be always on for CXL.cache capable devices PCI: Allow ATS to be always on for non-CXL NVIDIA GPUs iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allow ATS to be always on drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 1 + drivers/pci/pci.h | 9 +++ include/linux/pci-ats.h | 3 + include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 5 ++ drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/pci/ats.c | 45 +++++++++++++ drivers/pci/quirks.c | 23 +++++++ 7 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0