Re: [PATCH 03/11] dt-bindings: Add RISC-V IOMMU bindings

[Zong Li]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:57 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:42:47AM +0800, Zong Li wrote:
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> > Perhaps this question could be related to the scenarios in which
> > devices wish to be in bypass mode when the IOMMU is in translation
> > mode, and why IOMMU defines/supports this case. Currently, I could
> > envision a scenario where a device is already connected to the IOMMU
> > in hardware, but it is not functioning correctly, or there are
> > performance impacts. If modifying the hardware is not feasible, a
> > default configuration that allows bypass mode could be provided as a
> > solution. There might be other scenarios that I might have overlooked.
> > It seems to me since IOMMU supports this configuration, it would be
> > advantageous to have an approach to achieve it, and DT might be a
> > flexible way.
>
> So far we've taken the approach that broken hardware is quirked in the
> kernel by matching OF compatible string pattners. This is HW that is
> completely broken and the IOMMU doesn't work at all for it.
>
> HW that is slow or whatever is not quirked and this is an admin policy
> choice where the system should land on the security/performance
> spectrum.
>
> So I'm not sure adding DT makes sense here.
>

Hi Jason,
Sorry for being late here, I hadn't noticed this reply earlier. The
approach seems to address the situation. Could you kindly provide
information about the location of the patches? I was wondering about
further details regarding this particular implementation. Thanks

> Jason