2017-11-30 14:17:04

by Pierre Morel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio/iommu_type1: report the IOMMU aperture info

On 30/11/2017 13:57, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 30/11/17 11:34, Pierre Morel wrote:
> [...]
>> +/**
>> + * vfio_get_aperture - report minimal aperture of a vfio_iommu
>> + * @iommu: the current vfio_iommu
>> + * @start: a pointer to the aperture start
>> + * @end : a pointer to the aperture end
>> + *
>> + * This function iterate on the domains using the given vfio_iommu
>> + * and restrict the aperture to the minimal aperture common
>> + * to all domains sharing this vfio_iommu.
>> + */
>> +static void vfio_get_aperture(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, uint64_t *start,
>> + uint64_t *end)
>> +{
>> + struct iommu_domain_geometry geometry;
>> + struct vfio_domain *domain;
>> +
>> + *start = 0;
>> + *end = U64_MAX;
>
> I wonder if the default values should also reflect what the VFIO
> implementation actually supports. Looking at vfio_dma_do_map, a 32-bit
> host will reject any iova greater than 32 bits. In addition,
> vfio_dma_do_unmap doesn't support unmapping the last page of a 64-bit
> address space (existing IOMMUs would probably reject map requests with
> IOVA > 52 bits anyway, but if they don't report a domain aperture, VFIO
> can't guess it).
>
> I think it's convenient to use VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA on the full address
> space when an unmap-all is needed, maybe we could provide default aperture
> values that help doing this? (~0U for 32-bit and (~0ULL - PAGE_SIZE) for
> 64-bit)
>
> Thanks,
> Jean
>

Thanks, I will take care of this.

Pierre


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