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

[Jean-Philippe Brucker]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 08:07:38AM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:18 PM Jean-Philippe Brucker
> <jean-philippe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > The SMMU does support PCI Virtual Function - an hypervisor can assign a
> > VF to a guest, and let that guest partition the VF into smaller contexts
> > by using PASID.  What it can't support is assigning partitions of a PCI
> > function (VF or PF) to multiple Virtual Machines, since there is a
> > single S2 PGD per function (in the Stream Table Entry), rather than one
> > S2 PGD per PASID context.
> >
> In my concept, the two sentences "The SMMU does support PCI Virtual
> Functio" v.s. "What it can't support is assigning partitions of a PCI
> function (VF or PF) to multiple Virtual Machines" are conflict and I
> don't want to play naming game :)

That's fine. But to prevent the spread of misinformation: Arm SMMU
supports PCI Virtual Functions.

Thanks,
Jean