Re: [PATCH RFC 11/14] arm64: Move the ASID allocator code in a separate file

[Guo Ren]

Thx Will,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:40 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'll keep my system use the same ASID for SMP + IOMMU :P
>
> You will want a separate allocator for that:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190610184714.6786-2-jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx

Yes, it is hard to maintain ASID between IOMMU and CPUMMU or different
system, because it's difficult to synchronize the IO_ASID when the CPU
ASID is rollover.
But we could still use hardware broadcast TLB invalidation instruction
to uniformly manage the ASID and IO_ASID, or OTHER_ASID in our IOMMU.

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"Introduce an implementation of IOMMU in linux-riscv"
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Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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