On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:39:24PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/viot.c b/drivers/acpi/viot.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..710e5a5eac70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/acpi/viot.c

@@ -0,0 +1,350 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Virtual I/O topology

In the first place, more information on what this is all about, please.

What it does and how it is used.

Sure, I can add:

 *
 * The Virtual I/O Translation Table (VIOT) describes the topology of
 * para-virtual IOMMUs and the endpoints they manage. The OS uses it to
 * initialize devices in the right order, preventing endpoints from
 * issuing DMA before their IOMMU is ready. 
 *
 * When binding a driver to a device, before calling the device driver's
 * probe() method, the driver infrastructure calls dma_configure(). At
 * that point the VIOT driver looks for an IOMMU associated to the device
 * in the VIOT table. If an IOMMU exists and has been initialized, the
 * VIOT driver initializes the device's IOMMU fwspec, allowing the DMA
 * infrastructure to invoke the IOMMU ops when the device driver
 * configures DMA mappings. If an IOMMU exists and hasn't yet been
 * initialized, VIOT returns -EPROBE_DEFER to postpone probing the device
 * until the IOMMU is available.
 */

Thanks,
Jean
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