iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk

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Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU atomically updating the dirty bit
in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging-
structure memory must be coherent between the IOMMU and the CPU. In
another word, if the iommu page walk is incoherent, dirty page tracking
doesn't work.

The Intel VT-d specification, Section 3.10 "Snoop Behavior" states:

"Remapping hardware encountering the need to atomically update A/EA/D bits
 in a paging-structure entry that is not snooped will result in a non-
 recoverable fault."

To prevent an IOMMU from being incorrectly configured for dirty page
tracking when it is operating in an incoherent mode, mark SSADS as
supported only when both ecap_slads and ecap_smpwc are supported.

Fixes: f35f22cc76 ("iommu/vt-d: Access/Dirty bit support for SS domains")
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250924083447.123224-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

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Lu Baolu 2025-09-26 10:41:30 +08:00 • committed by Joerg Roedel

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