[PATCH v2 00/19] iommufd: Add VIOMMU infrastructure (Part-1)

[Yi Liu]

On 2024/9/27 20:20, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 08:12:20PM +0800, Yi Liu wrote:
>>> Perhaps calling it a slice sounds more accurate, as I guess all
>>> the confusion comes from the name "vIOMMU" that might be thought
>>> to be a user space object/instance that likely holds all virtual
>>> stuff like stage-1 HWPT or so?
>>
>> yeah. Maybe this confusion partly comes when you start it with the
>> cache invalidation as well. I failed to get why a S2 hwpt needs to
>> be part of the vIOMMU obj at the first glance.
> 
> Both amd and arm have direct to VM queues for the iommu and these
> queues have their DMA translated by the S2.

ok, this explains why the S2 should be part of the vIOMMU obj.

> 
> So their viommu HW concepts come along with a requirement that there
> be a fixed translation for the VM, which we model by attaching a S2
> HWPT to the VIOMMU object which get's linked into the IOMMU HW as
> the translation for the queue memory.

Is the mapping of the S2 be static? or it an be unmapped per userspace?

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Regards,
Yi Liu