[PATCH v2 1/5] [RFC]iommu: Add a IOMMU_DEVONLY protection flag

Joerg Roedel joro at 8bytes.org
Mon Oct 18 03:25:38 PDT 2021


On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:34:23PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> +/*
> + * Mapping is only accessed by the device behind the iommu. That means other
> + * devices or CPUs are not expected to access this physical memory region,
> + * and the MMU driver can safely restrict the shareability domain to the
> + * device itself.
> + */
> +#define IOMMU_DEVONLY	(1 << 6)

I am not entirely happy with the name, how about

	IOMMU_DEV_PRIVATE?

PRIV would conflict with IOMMU_PRIV (which should probably also be
IOMMU_PRIVILEGED, but thats another problem).

Regards,

	Joerg



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