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From:   Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:18:12 +0100
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Hi Tomasz,

On 11/20/19 9:15 AM, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>=20
> On 11.07.2019 15:56, Eric Auger wrote:
>> This series brings the VFIO part of HW nested paging support
>> in the SMMUv3.
>>
>> The series depends on:
>> [PATCH v9 00/14] SMMUv3 Nested Stage Setup (IOMMU part)
>> (https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg3187714.html)
>>
>> 3 new IOCTLs are introduced that allow the userspace to
>> 1) pass the guest stage 1 configuration
>> 2) pass stage 1 MSI bindings
>> 3) invalidate stage 1 related caches
>>
>> They map onto the related new IOMMU API functions.
>>
>> We introduce the capability to register specific interrupt
>> indexes (see [1]). A new DMA_FAULT interrupt index allows to register
>> an eventfd to be signaled whenever a stage 1 related fault
>> is detected at physical level. Also a specific region allows
>> to expose the fault records to the user space.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> This series can be found at:
>> https://github.com/eauger/linux/tree/v5.3.0-rc0-2stage-v9
>=20
> I think you have already tested on ThunderX2, but as a formality, for=20
> the whole series:
>=20
> Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tnowicki@marvell.com>
> qemu: https://github.com/eauger/qemu/tree/v4.1.0-rc0-2stage-rfcv5
> kernel: https://github.com/eauger/linux/tree/v5.3.0-rc0-2stage-v9 +=20
> Shameer's fix patch
>=20
> In my test I assigned Intel 82574L NIC and perform iperf tests.

Thank you for your testing efforts.
>=20
> Other folks from Marvell claimed this to be important feature so I asked=
=20
> them to review and speak up on mailing list.

That's nice to read that!  So it is time for me to rebase both the iommu
and vfio parts. I will submit something quickly. Then I would encourage
the review efforts to focus first on the iommu part.

Thanks

Eric
>=20
> Thanks,
> Tomasz
>=20