linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 17/19] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_viommu_cache

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Message-ID: <46158923-046b-44e3-a67f-0964c53dd0b5@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:19:04 +0800
From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>, Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 17/19] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add
 arm_smmu_viommu_cache_invalidate

On 2024/9/11 16:17, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> If a VMID for an S2 hwpt is valid on physical IOMMU A but has already
>> been allocated for another purpose on physical IOMMU B, how can it be
>> shared across both IOMMUs? Or the VMID is allocated globally?
>>
> I'm not sure that's a problem. The point is that each vIOMMU object
> will get a VMID from the SMMU which it's associated to (assume
> one vIOMMU cannot span multiple SMMU). Whether that VMID
> is globally allocated or per-SMMU is the policy in the SMMU driver.
> 
> It's the driver's responsibility to ensure not using a conflicting VMID
> when creating an vIOMMU instance.

Make sense.

Thanks,
baolu