From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] iommu: Add capability IOMMU_CAP_BYPASS
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:23:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170719112315.GE13642@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAALAos_o25mtphxcVE0rr9dE8YAm-os2C_HD9oDnt41ZMDP8pA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:49:00PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com> wrote:
> > On 19/07/17 10:33, Anup Patel wrote:
> >> Some of the IOMMUs (such as ARM SMMU) are capable of bypassing
> >> transactions for which no IOMMU domain is configured.
> >>
> >> This patch adds IOMMU_CAP_BYPASS which can be used by IOMMU
> >> drivers to advertise transation bypass capability of an IOMMU.
> >
> > Whatever the intended semantics of this are, I can't help thinking it
> > would be better served by allowing callers to explicitly allocate their
> > own IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY domains. That would also be useful for the
> > problem we have with legacy virtio devices behind real IOMMUs.
>
> We want to use VFIO no-IOMMU mode for FlexRM device but
> currently it does not allow on our SOC because IOMMU ops are
> registered for platform bus.
Why do you want to use no-IOMMU mode if you have an IOMMU, and why you do
think the individual IOMMU drivers are the place to implement this?
NAK to the SMMU patches, for the reasons outlined by Robin.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-19 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-19 9:33 [PATCH 0/5] FlexRM support in VFIO platform Anup Patel
2017-07-19 9:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] iommu: Add capability IOMMU_CAP_BYPASS Anup Patel
2017-07-19 10:58 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 11:19 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:23 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2017-07-19 11:26 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:29 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 11:30 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-19 11:33 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 9:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] iommu/arm-smmu: add IOMMU_CAP_BYPASS to the ARM SMMU driver Anup Patel
2017-07-19 10:59 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 9:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add IOMMU_CAP_BYPASS to the ARM SMMUv3 driver Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:00 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 11:23 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:25 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-19 11:31 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:33 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-19 11:39 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:53 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-20 4:02 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-20 9:10 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-20 11:08 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-20 11:17 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-20 11:17 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-24 17:16 ` Alex Williamson
2017-07-24 17:23 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-24 19:06 ` Alex Williamson
2017-07-25 8:59 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 9:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] vfio: Allow No-IOMMU mode for IOMMUs with bypass capability Anup Patel
2017-07-19 9:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] vfio: platform: reset: Add Broadcom FlexRM reset module Anup Patel
2017-07-19 16:50 ` Scott Branden
2017-07-20 4:05 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 10:57 ` [PATCH 0/5] FlexRM support in VFIO platform Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 11:17 ` Anup Patel
2017-07-19 11:25 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-19 11:28 ` Anup Patel
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