[PATCH v2 10/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allow sharing domain across SMMUs

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> VMM needs a domain holding the mappings between gPA to hPA. It can be an S1
> domain or an S2 nesting parent domain, depending on whether the VM is built
> with a vSMMU or not.
> 
> Given that the IOAS for this gPA mapping is the same across SMMU instances,
> this domain can be shared across devices even if they sit behind different
> SMMUs, so long as the underlying page table is compatible between the SMMU
> instances.
> 
> There is no direct information about the page table from the master device,
> but a comparison can be done between the physical SMMU that the domain was
> allocated for and the physical SMMU that the device is behind.

I would very much prefer this works by inspecting the cfg from the
iopgtable..

You can get it by doing 

	struct io_pgtable_cfg *pgtbl_cfg =
		&io_pgtable_ops_to_pgtable(domain->pgtbl_ops)->cfg;

I think it is important that the domain->smmu pointer be removed as
well

Jason