Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] iommu: Introduce iommu_dev_reset_prepare() and iommu_dev_reset_done()

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On 8/12/25 06:59, Nicolin Chen wrote:
PCIe permits a device to ignore ATS invalidation TLPs, while processing a
reset. This creates a problem visible to the OS where an ATS invalidation
command will time out: e.g. an SVA domain will have no coordination with a
reset event and can racily issue ATS invalidations to a resetting device.

The OS should do something to mitigate this as we do not want production
systems to be reporting critical ATS failures, especially in a hypervisor
environment. Broadly, OS could arrange to ignore the timeouts, block page
table mutations to prevent invalidations, or disable and block ATS.

The PCIe spec in sec 10.3.1 IMPLEMENTATION NOTE recommends to disable and
block ATS before initiating a Function Level Reset. It also mentions that
other reset methods could have the same vulnerability as well.

Provide a callback from the PCI subsystem that will enclose the reset and
have the iommu core temporarily change all the attached domain to BLOCKED.
After attaching a BLOCKED domain, IOMMU drivers should fence any incoming

Nit, my understanding is that it's not the "IOMMU drivers" but the
"IOMMU hardware" that fences any further incoming translation requests,
right?

ATS queries, synchronously stop issuing new ATS invalidations, and wait
for all ATS invalidations to complete. This can avoid any ATS invaliation
timeouts.

However, if there is a domain attachment/replacement happening during an
ongoing reset, ATS routines may be re-activated between the two function
calls. So, introduce a new pending_reset flag in group_device to defer an
attachment during a reset, allowing iommu core to cache target domains in
the SW level while bypassing the driver. The iommu_dev_reset_done() will
re-attach these soft-attached domains, once the device reset is finished.

Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen<nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>

The code looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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