From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:18:35 -0700 From: Jacob Pan To: Auger Eric Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, xieyisheng1@huawei.com, liubo95@huawei.com, xuzaibo@huawei.com, thunder.leizhen@huawei.com, will.deacon@arm.com, okaya@codeaurora.org, yi.l.liu@intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com, tn@semihalf.com, joro@8bytes.org, bharatku@xilinx.com, liudongdong3@huawei.com, rfranz@cavium.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, jcrouse@codeaurora.org, rgummal@xilinx.com, jonathan.cameron@huawei.com, shunyong.yang@hxt-semitech.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, robdclark@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, christian.koenig@amd.com, nwatters@codeaurora.org, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/40] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces Message-ID: <20180905111835.7f3ae40e@jacob-builder> In-Reply-To: References: <20180511190641.23008-1-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> <20180511190641.23008-4-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:14:12 +0200 Auger Eric wrote: > > + * > > + * On Arm and AMD IOMMUs, entry 0 of the PASID table can be used > > to hold > > + * non-PASID translations. In this case PASID 0 is reserved and > > entry 0 points > > + * to the io_pgtable base. On Intel IOMMU, the io_pgtable base > > would be held in > > + * the device table and PASID 0 would be available to the > > allocator. > > + */ > very nice explanation With the new Vt-d 3.0 spec., 2nd level IO page table base is no longer held in the device context table. Instead it is held in the PASID table entry pointed by the RID_PASID field in the device context entry. If RID_PASID = 0, then it is the same as ARM and AMD IOMMUs. You can refer to ch3.4.3 of the VT-d spec.