[PATCH v4 10/23] iommufd/viommu: Introduce IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE and its related struct

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Wed May 14 22:58:41 PDT 2025


> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 9, 2025 11:03 AM
> 
> Add IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE with an iommufd_hw_queue structure,
> representing
> a HW-accelerated queue type of IOMMU's physical queue that can be passed
> through to a user space VM for direct hardware control, such as:
>  - NVIDIA's Virtual Command Queue
>  - AMD vIOMMU's Command Buffer, Event Log Buffer, and PPR Log Buffer
> 
> Introduce an allocator iommufd_hw_queue_alloc(). And add a pair of
> viommu
> ops for iommufd to forward user space ioctls to IOMMU drivers.
> 
> Given that the first user of this HW QUEUE (tegra241-cmdqv) will need to
> ensure the queue memory to be physically contiguous, add a flag property
> in iommufd_viommu_ops and
> IOMMUFD_VIOMMU_FLAG_HW_QUEUE_READS_PA to allow
> driver to flag it so that the core will validate the physical pages of a
> given guest queue.

'READS' is confusing here. What about xxx_CONTIG_PAS?

> + * @hw_queue_alloc: Allocate a HW QUEUE object for a HW-accelerated
> queue given
> + *                  the @type (must be defined in include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h)
> + *                  for the @viommu. @index carries the logical HW QUEUE ID per
> + *                  @viommu in a guest VM, for a multi-queue case; @addr carries
> + *                  the guest physical base address of the queue memory; 

s/@addr/@base_addr/

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>



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