[PATCH v4 10/23] iommufd/viommu: Introduce IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE and its related struct
Nicolin Chen
nicolinc at nvidia.com
Thu May 15 10:14:25 PDT 2025
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:58:41AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > 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?
Sure.
> > + * @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>
Thanks!
Nicolin
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