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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1x9sLm-00000000elU-0EsA; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:55:34 -0300 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:55:34 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Daniel Mentz Cc: Vijayanand Jitta , Will Deacon , Robin Murphy , "Joerg Roedel (AMD)" , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Prakash Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add support for contiguous hint bit Message-ID: <20260924225534.GD16465@ziepe.ca> References: <20260921-iommu_contig_hint-v5-1-e7fbd1c3774d@oss.qualcomm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 01:36:12PM -0700, Daniel Mentz wrote: > Interaction with Hardware Dirty Tracking (IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_HD) > > When Hardware Dirty Tracking (ARM_LPAE_PTE_DBM) is enabled on Stage-1 tables: > * In visit_dirty() / arm_lpae_read_and_clear_dirty(), dirty bits are > queried and cleared on a page-by-page granularity > (iopte_set_writeable_clean(ptep)). > * If a single 4KB page within a 64KB CONT group is marked clean while > neighboring pages remain marked dirty/writeable, the descriptors in > that group will differ in access permissions (AP[2]). > * According to Arm ARM D8.3.1, all descriptors in a contiguous block > must share identical permissions and attributes. If dirty tracking is > active on a domain, consider whether IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_NO_CONT_HINT > should be set or whether CONT sizes should be suppressed when > IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_HD is active. This is right, handling dirty and CONT together is a PITA. You should probably make them exclusive for this simplified implementation. SMMUv3 is the only user of dirty and it will switch to iommupt which does all this right. Jason