Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute

[Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:22:43PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:

> OK, so there's a geometry that is read-only, and potentially a
> driver-specific geometry that is read/write.  The default config for
> PAMU would likely be a 1 MiB aperture in which the dma api can do
> arbitrary 4k mappings -- this fits within the get generic geometry
> operation.

Better: There is a read-only geometry for _all_ IOMMUs. Some IOMMUs may
also allow to write the geometry, like PAMU.

> Should generic get geometry return an error if the driver-specific
> geometry has been set to something that doesn't fit within the generic
> geometry model?

A domain can only have one geometry. So if you set a new geometry
subsequent calls to get_attr will return the new geometry.

> I said a generic attribute (not GART specific) -- but if we're never
> going to use the generic geometry struct for a set operation, bundling
> it should be OK.

The generic struct should be used to set the geometry. But you can read
out the old geometry and set force_aperture to the same value in the new
geometry. Drivers should actually return -EINVAL when the user tries to
set an unsupported value for force_aperture.

> No, at this point I'm just trying to follow the API development while
> tending to other tasks.  I think Varun is working on the code for now.

Okay, maybe it is better to follow a 'release early, release often'
model here. So we can work out the issues together.


	Joerg

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