Re: [RFC v2 8/8] iommu/arm-smmu: implement add_reserved_regions callback

[Auger Eric]

Hi Joerg,

On 10/11/2016 17:13, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:57:51PM +0100, Auger Eric wrote:
>> It does not only serve the purpose to register the MSI IOVA region. We
>> also need to allocate an iova_domain where MSI IOVAs will be allocated
>> upon the request of the relevant MSI controllers. Do you mean you don't
>> like to use the iova allocator for this purpose?
> 
> Yes, it looks like the only purpose of iommu_get_dma_msi_region_cookie()
> is to get the msi-region information into into the reserved-list.
> 
> Why do you need to 'allocate' the MSI region after all? Except for
> IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA domains the iommu-core code does not care about address
> allocation. This is up to the users of the domain, which includes that
> the user has to take care of the MSI region.
The purpose is to reuse the transparent MSI IOVA allocation scheme
introduced by Robin in [PATCH v7 00/22] Generic DT bindings for PCI
IOMMUs and ARM SMMU (commit 44bb7e243bd4b4e5c79de2452cd9762582f58925).

GICv2m and GICV3 ITS use dma-mapping iommu_dma_map_msi_msg to allocate
an MSI IOVA on-demand. This relies on the existence of an allocated
iova_domain whose handle is stored in domain->iova_cookie.

the iommu_dma_init_domain could be done in VFIO instead of in the
IOMMU-code, on the basis of dm region info. But we would need to
differentiate the MSI window from P2P windows.

msi-region start/length are arbitrarily chosen and the setup of the
reserved region list does not depend on iommu_get_dma_msi_region_cookie;
but maybe I completely misunderstand your question.


> Besides that, 'iommu_get_dma_msi_region_cookie' is a terrible function
> name and does not describe at all what the function does or is supposed
> to do.
Yes this was discussed with Alex& Robin already
(https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9363989/). I proposed to rename into
iommu_setup_dma_msi_region but this was not validated.

Thanks

Eric
> 
> 
> 	Joerg
> 
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