linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] iommu: Generalize default PCIe requester ID PASID

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Date:   Sun, 21 May 2023 14:21:48 +0800
From:   Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        vkoul@...nel.org
Cc:     baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Raj Ashok <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>, Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Zanussi, Tom" <tom.zanussi@...el.com>,
        narayan.ranganathan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] iommu: Generalize default PCIe requester ID PASID

On 5/20/23 4:32 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> PCIe Process address space ID (PASID) is used to tag DMA traffic, it
> provides finer grained isolation than requester ID (RID).
> 
> For each RID, 0 is as a special PASID for the legacy DMA (without
> PASID), thus RID_PASID. This is universal across all architectures,
> therefore warranted to be declared in the common header.
> Noting that VT-d could support none-zero RID_PASID, but currently not
> used.
> 
> By having a common RID_PASID, we can avoid conflicts between different
> use cases in the generic code. e.g. SVA and DMA API with PASIDs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan<jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>

Best regards,
baolu