linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:41:07 +0000
From:	"Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability
 IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

Sorry there was a type,

The question is:

            How is VFIO restricting software from writing to MSI/MSI-X vectors of the device. 

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From: Chalamarla, Tirumalesh 
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

When I say emulating ITS, I mean translating guest ITS commands to physical ITS commands  and placing them in physical queue. 

Regards,
Tirumalesh.

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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

Forgive me if this discussion is not relative here, but I thought it is.  

How is VFIO restricting devices from writing  to MSI/MSI-X, Is all the vector area is mapped by VFIO to trap the accesses.  I am asking this because we might need to emulate ITS somewhere either in KVM or VFIO to provide direct access to devices.
And I don't see any mentions on that.   I think this flag needs to be set by ITS emulation.

Regards,
Tirumalesh.

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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 8:39 AM
To: Will Deacon
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:25:26PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Ok, thanks. In which case, I think this is really a combined property 
> of the SMMU and the interrupt controller, so we might need some extra 
> code so that the SMMU can check that the interrupt controller for the 
> device is also capable of interrupt remapping.

Right, that this is part of IOMMU code has more or less historic reasons on x86. Interrupt remapping is purely implemented in the IOMMU there, so on ARM some clue-code between interrupt controler and smmu is needed.

	Joerg

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