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Message-ID: <20200611133015.1418097f@x1.home>
Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:30:15 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
Cc:     eric.auger@...hat.com, baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, joro@...tes.org,
        kevin.tian@...el.com, jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com,
        ashok.raj@...el.com, jun.j.tian@...el.com, yi.y.sun@...el.com,
        jean-philippe@...aro.org, peterx@...hat.com, hao.wu@...el.com,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/15] iommu: Report domain nesting info

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:15:21 -0700
Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@...el.com> wrote:

> IOMMUs that support nesting translation needs report the capability info
> to userspace, e.g. the format of first level/stage paging structures.
> 
> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>
> CC: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> @Jean, Eric: as nesting was introduced for ARM, but looks like no actual
> user of it. right? So I'm wondering if we can reuse DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING
> to retrieve nesting info? how about your opinions?
> 
>  include/linux/iommu.h      |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/iommu.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> index 78a26ae..f6e4b49 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ enum iommu_attr {
>  	DOMAIN_ATTR_FSL_PAMUV1,
>  	DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING,	/* two stages of translation */
>  	DOMAIN_ATTR_DMA_USE_FLUSH_QUEUE,
> +	DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING_INFO,
>  	DOMAIN_ATTR_MAX,
>  };
>  
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/iommu.h b/include/uapi/linux/iommu.h
> index 303f148..02eac73 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -332,4 +332,38 @@ struct iommu_gpasid_bind_data {
>  	};
>  };
>  
> +struct iommu_nesting_info {
> +	__u32	size;
> +	__u32	format;
> +	__u32	features;
> +#define IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_SYSWIDE_PASID	(1 << 0)
> +#define IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_BIND_PGTBL		(1 << 1)
> +#define IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_CACHE_INVLD		(1 << 2)
> +	__u32	flags;
> +	__u8	data[];
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * @flags:	VT-d specific flags. Currently reserved for future
> + *		extension.
> + * @addr_width:	The output addr width of first level/stage translation
> + * @pasid_bits:	Maximum supported PASID bits, 0 represents no PASID
> + *		support.
> + * @cap_reg:	Describe basic capabilities as defined in VT-d capability
> + *		register.
> + * @cap_mask:	Mark valid capability bits in @cap_reg.
> + * @ecap_reg:	Describe the extended capabilities as defined in VT-d
> + *		extended capability register.
> + * @ecap_mask:	Mark the valid capability bits in @ecap_reg.

Please explain this a little further, why do we need to tell userspace
about cap/ecap register bits that aren't valid through this interface?
Thanks,

Alex


> + */
> +struct iommu_nesting_info_vtd {
> +	__u32	flags;
> +	__u16	addr_width;
> +	__u16	pasid_bits;
> +	__u64	cap_reg;
> +	__u64	cap_mask;
> +	__u64	ecap_reg;
> +	__u64	ecap_mask;
> +};
> +
>  #endif /* _UAPI_IOMMU_H */