Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] PCI/P2PDMA: Fix ACS egress control handling
From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 04:41:27 EST
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 12:30:42PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> PCI P2PDMA treats any enabled ACS P2P Egress Control bit as an upstream
> redirect. PCIe r7.0, sec 6.12.3, table 6-11 says the Egress Control
> Vector bit for the target port decides instead: a clear bit routes a peer
> request directly, regardless of P2P Request Redirect. Firmware can
> therefore enable Egress Control with a permissive vector while Linux
> incorrectly rejects a valid direct P2P path.
>
> Table 6-11, where E is ACS P2P Egress Control Enable, R is ACS P2P
> Request Redirect Enable and V the Egress Control Vector bit for the
> target port:
>
> E R V Required Handling for Peer-to-Peer Requests
> - - - ------------------------------------------
> 0 0 x Route directly to peer-to-peer target
> 0 1 x Redirect Upstream
> 1 0 1 Handle as an ACS Violation
> 1 0 0 Route directly to peer-to-peer target
> 1 1 1 Redirect Upstream
> 1 1 0 Route directly to peer-to-peer target
>
> P2P Completion Redirect lies outside this table and also forces
> host-bridge routing.
>
> The same interaction affects target-independent ACS isolation checks.
> Request Redirect does not guarantee that peer requests are forwarded
> upstream while Egress Control is enabled because a clear vector bit
> overrides it. Such checks cannot identify every potential target, so
> treat Request Redirect as ineffective while Egress Control is enabled,
> which merges the affected devices into one IOMMU group.
>
> ACS Direct Translated P2P routes a Request carrying a Translated address
> to the peer regardless of Request Redirect and Egress Control, so it
> voids the same guarantee unless Translation Blocking rejects the Request
> first.
>
> That last rule holds only for a caller that needs Request Redirect to
> isolate peers. pci_enable_pasid() asks for it so that a Request carrying
> a PASID reaches the translation agent (sec 2.2.10.4), and a Translated
> Request already carries an address the agent produced for that PASID
> (sec 10.1.3). pci_acs_enabled() and pci_acs_path_enabled() therefore
> take a scope, and Direct Translated P2P applies only to
> PCI_ACS_SCOPE_ALL.
>
> A pre-existing gap comes first. The routing analysis covers only Requests
> carrying an Untranslated address; ACS Direct Translated P2P overrides
> those controls, so that scope is now written down rather than implied.
>
> It is nearly impossible to test all possible combinations due to limited
> hardware availability, so I added KUnit coverage for ACS routing
> decisions, isolation checks, Egress Control Vector lookups, and
> provider-to-client path traversal over a fabricated PCIe fabric.
>
> Disclaimer:
> All patches were prepared with AI assistance, with a significant
> difference between the code changes and the KUnit tests. The code
> changes were thoroughly reviewed and rewritten.
>
> In contrast, the KUnit patches were produced entirely by AI with
> minimal human interaction, and multiple AI tools (Claude, Codex,
> and Gemini) with frontier models were used to verify that the tests
> comply with the PCI specification.
>
> Thanks
>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Fixed pci_p2pdma_add_resource() error unwinding
> - Made pdev->p2pdma teardown wait unconditionally for RCU readers
> - Restricted pci_p2pmem_find_many() to pool-backed providers
> - Documented the pdev->p2pdma lifetime and RCU rules
> - Fixed calc_map_type_and_dist() handling of the verbose argument
> - Required the ACS port and target to share a bus before indexing the
> Egress Control Vector
> - Gave pci_acs_enabled() and pci_acs_path_enabled() a scope, so the ACS
> Direct Translated P2P rule no longer stops pci_enable_pasid() from
> enabling PASID
> - Dropped "Report ACS ports when the paths share no upstream bridge":
> the mapping type cannot change without a shared upstream bridge, so
> the pci=disable_acs_redir= hint was not actionable there and the ACS
> walk only cost config space reads
> - Folded the Request Redirect rule into pci_acs_rr_ineffective(), so
> pci_acs_flags_enabled() and the Intel SPT PCH quirk share one copy
> - Renamed pci_acs_egress_ctrl_set() to pci_acs_egress_ctrl_is_set(), it
> reads the bit rather than setting it
> - Reworded the blocked-path warning: ACS may also leave the direct route
> indeterminate rather than blocked
> - Added KUnit coverage for the shared-bus guard, a device with no ACS
> capability and an unreadable ACS Control register
> - Added the missing Fixes: tags, a second one on the
> pci_p2pdma_add_resource() unwinding fix (the dangling devres action
> dates to f58ef9d1d135) and one on the Egress Control isolation change
> - Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806-fix-p2p-acs-v2-0-0cec14812965@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Added Logan's ROB tags
> - Added commas in Documentation patch
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802-fix-p2p-acs-v1-0-a7c5eb64fff6@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Leon Romanovsky (17):
> PCI/P2PDMA: Do not tear down the allocate attribute on registration failure
> PCI/P2PDMA: Wait for RCU readers before freeing state
> PCI/P2PDMA: Restrict the p2pmem search to pool backed providers
> PCI/P2PDMA: Safely terminate ACS redirect lists
> PCI/P2PDMA: Document the pdev->p2pdma lifetime and RCU rules
> PCI/P2PDMA: Gate the host bridge whitelist warning on verbose
> PCI/P2PDMA: Document the Address Type assumption
> PCI: Account for Direct Translated P2P in ACS isolation checks
> PCI: Add ACS egress control vector accessor
> PCI: Account for ACS egress control in isolation checks
> PCI/P2PDMA: Derive peer-to-peer routing from ACS control bits
> PCI/P2PDMA: Honor ACS egress control vectors
> PCI/P2PDMA: Document ACS egress control handling
> PCI/P2PDMA: Extract pure ACS routing decision helpers
> PCI/P2PDMA: Add KUnit tests for ACS routing decisions
> PCI/P2PDMA: Add KUnit coverage for the ACS P2P routing walk
> PCI: Add KUnit coverage for ACS isolation checks
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +-
> Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst | 15 +
> drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 8 +-
> drivers/pci/Kconfig | 15 +
> drivers/pci/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/pci/ats.c | 11 +-
> drivers/pci/p2pdma.c | 218 +++++--
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 115 +++-
> drivers/pci/pci.h | 63 +-
> drivers/pci/pci_acs_test.c | 801 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/pci/quirks.c | 62 +-
> include/linux/pci.h | 30 +-
> 12 files changed, 1259 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
Bjorn,
Is there anything you need from me to merge this series after the
merge window closes?
If so, I would prefer to spend these two weeks fixing or reworking the
code.
Thanks,
> ---
> base-commit: 43598807f71ac1c9164f26004acf2496d4038daf
> change-id: 20260713-fix-p2p-acs-725f8dd7b0e8
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
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