Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 6 authors, 2012-12-03

Re: [PATCH 3/4 v5] iommu/fsl: Add iommu domain attributes required by fsl PAMU driver.

From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Date: 2012-12-02 14:03:28
Also in: linux-iommu, lkml

Hmm, we need to work out a good abstraction for this.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24:56PM +0530, Varun Sethi wrote:
Added the following domain attributes required by FSL PAMU driver:
1. Subwindows field added to the iommu domain geometry attribute.
Are the Subwindows mapped with full size or do you map only parts of the
subwindows?
+	 * This attribute indicates number of DMA subwindows supported by
+	 * the geometry. If there is a single window that maps the entire
+	 * geometry, attribute must be set to "1". A value of "0" implies
+	 * that this mechanism is not used at all(normal paging is used).
+	 * Value other than* "0" or "1" indicates the actual number of
+	 * subwindows.
+	 */
This semantic is ugly, how about a feature detection mechanism?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+struct iommu_stash_attribute {
+	u32 	cpu;	/* cpu number */
+	u32 	cache;	/* cache to stash to: L1,L2,L3 */
 };
 
 struct iommu_domain {
@@ -60,6 +95,14 @@ struct iommu_domain {
 enum iommu_attr {
 	DOMAIN_ATTR_MAX,
 	DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY,
+	/* Set the IOMMU hardware stashing
+	 * parameters.
+	 */
+	DOMAIN_ATTR_STASH,
+	/* Explicity enable/disable DMA for a
+         * particular memory window.
+         */
+	DOMAIN_ATTR_ENABLE,
 };
When you add implementation specific attributes please add some
indication to the names that it is only for PAMU. DOMAIN_ATTR_STASH
sounds too generic.


	Joerg
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