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From: Sethi Varun-B16395 <B16395@freescale.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@freescale.com>
Cc: "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@freescale.com>,
	David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:27:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5ECD7A89D1DC44195F34B25E172658D041E81@039-SN2MPN1-012.039d.mgd.msft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120126185101.GJ19255@amd.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Roedel [mailto:joerg.roedel@amd.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:21 AM
> To: Wood Scott-B07421
> Cc: Sethi Varun-B16395; iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org; Ohad Ben-Cohen;
> Tony Lindgren; Hiroshi DOYU; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Laurent
> Pinchart; Wood Scott-B07421; David Brown; David Woodhouse
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY
> attribute
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:42:10PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On 01/26/2012 12:31 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > The force_aperture flag indicated whether DMA is only allowed
> > > between aperture_start and apertuer_end or if DMA is allowed outside
> > > of this range too (unmapped in this case).
> > >
> > > The AMD GART for example would set this flag to false because it
> > > does not enforce DMA to be in the aperture-range.
> >
> > Why is this not an AMD GART specific attribute?  Is there any feature
> > reporting mechanism by which a user would know if that flag is
> supported?
> 
> Because this is a flag that makes sense for all IOMMU. Every IOMMU either
> allows DMA outside its aperture or it doesn't.
> 
> Another reason why it must be in the generic struct is the intended
> generic dma-ops layer on-top. This code can decide on this flag wheter a
> address needs to be remapped at all.


Can you please explain how would IOMMU remapping be used, based on the force_aperture flag.

-Varun 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-19 14:30 [PATCH 0/5] IOMMU: Make IOMMU-API ready for GART-like hardware Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] iommu: Add domain-attribute handlers Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 15:46   ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-01-19 16:07     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 16:27       ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-01-20  5:44         ` Hiroshi Doyu
2012-01-20 16:01         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-01  9:37           ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2012-01-26 18:26         ` Scott Wood
2012-01-19 17:16   ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2012-01-20 16:03     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 18:25       ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 18:31         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 18:42           ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 18:51             ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 19:00               ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 19:44                 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 20:02                   ` Scott Wood
2012-01-27 11:01                     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-27 21:22                       ` Scott Wood
2012-01-30 14:24                         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-30 20:21                           ` Scott Wood
2012-01-30  6:27               ` Sethi Varun-B16395 [this message]
2012-01-30 14:30                 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] iommu/vt-d: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] iommu/omap: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] iommu/msm: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-20  6:14 ` [PATCH 0/5] IOMMU: Make IOMMU-API ready for GART-like hardware Hiroshi Doyu
2012-01-20 16:05   ` joerg.roedel

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