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iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Mark STE MEV safe when computing the update sequence
authorJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:23:29 +0000 (10:23 -0800)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:47:49 +0000 (13:47 +0000)
commitf3c1d372dbb8e5a86923f20db66deabef42bfc9d
tree6c3f83081ef29895fde16a115ea2eaf74e21aaf9
parent2781f2a930abb5d27f80b8afbabfa19684833b65
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Mark STE MEV safe when computing the update sequence

Nested CD tables set the MEV bit to try to reduce multi-fault spamming on
the hypervisor. Since MEV is in STE word 1 this causes a breaking update
sequence that is not required and impacts real workloads.

For the purposes of STE updates the value of MEV doesn't matter, if it is
set/cleared early or late it just results in a change to the fault reports
that must be supported by the kernel anyhow. The spec says:

 Note: Software must expect, and be able to deal with, coalesced fault
 records even when MEV == 0.

So mark STE MEV safe when computing the update sequence, to avoid creating
a breaking update.

Fixes: da0c56520e88 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set MEV bit in nested STE for DoS mitigations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c