Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 5 authors, 2025-05-09

Re: [PATCH v3 16/23] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update vQUEUE

From: Nicolin Chen <hidden>
Date: 2025-05-02 05:30:28
Also in: linux-doc, linux-iommu, linux-kselftest, linux-patches, linux-tegra, lkml

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 10:50:07AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
quoted
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated virtual queue, as a
+  subset of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly read
+  or write the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration
+  allows VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, i.e. reducing
+  overhead from the hypercalls. Along with this vQUEUE object, iommufd provides
+  user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from the
+  host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing the
+  guest OS to control the allocated vQUEUE HW. Thus, when allocating a vQUEUE,
+  the VMM must request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for an mmap syscall.
+  The length argument of an mmap syscall can be smaller than the given size for
+  a partial mmap, but the addr argument of the mmap syscall should never offset
+  from the returned vm_pgoff, which implies that an mmap will always start from
Did you mean never be offset from returned vm_pgoff?
Yes. Will fix this.
quoted
+  the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
+
Confused...
Meaning that VMM should just use the given vm_pgoff as is, without
adding any offset to the vm_pgoff.

Thanks
Nicolin
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