Re: [PATCH kernel] powerpc/iommu: Add iommu_ops to report capabilities and allow blocking domains

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 12:21 PM Alexey Kardashevskiy [off-list ref] wrote:

*snip*

About this. If a platform has a concept of explicit DMA windows (2 or
more), is it one domain with 2 windows or 2 domains with one window each?

If it is 2 windows, iommu_domain_ops misses windows manipulation
callbacks (I vaguely remember it being there for embedded PPC64 but
cannot find it quickly).

If it is 1 window per a domain, then can a device be attached to 2
domains at least in theory (I suspect not)?

On server POWER CPUs, each DMA window is backed by an independent IOMMU
page table. (reminder) A window is a bus address range where devices are
allowed to DMA to/from ;)

I've always thought of windows as being entries to a top-level "iommu
page table" for the device / domain. The fact each window is backed by
a separate IOMMU page table shouldn't really be relevant outside the
arch/platform.