dt-bindings: Document stall property for IOMMU masters

On ARM systems, some platform devices behind an IOMMU may support stall,
which is the ability to recover from page faults. Let the firmware tell us
when a device supports stall.

Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526161927.24268-2-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Jean-Philippe Brucker 2021-05-26 18:19:26 +02:00 committed by Will Deacon
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@ -92,6 +92,24 @@ Optional properties:
tagging DMA transactions with an address space identifier. By default,
this is 0, which means that the device only has one address space.
- dma-can-stall: When present, the master can wait for a transaction to
complete for an indefinite amount of time. Upon translation fault some
IOMMUs, instead of aborting the translation immediately, may first
notify the driver and keep the transaction in flight. This allows the OS
to inspect the fault and, for example, make physical pages resident
before updating the mappings and completing the transaction. Such IOMMU
accepts a limited number of simultaneous stalled transactions before
having to either put back-pressure on the master, or abort new faulting
transactions.
Firmware has to opt-in stalling, because most buses and masters don't
support it. In particular it isn't compatible with PCI, where
transactions have to complete before a time limit. More generally it
won't work in systems and masters that haven't been designed for
stalling. For example the OS, in order to handle a stalled transaction,
may attempt to retrieve pages from secondary storage in a stalled
domain, leading to a deadlock.
Notes:
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