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SubjectRE: [PATCH 3/4 v5] iommu/fsl: Add iommu domain attributes required by fsl PAMU driver.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 10:34 PM
> To: Sethi Varun-B16395
> Cc: Joerg Roedel; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; iommu@lists.linux-
> foundation.org; Wood Scott-B07421; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Tabi
> Timur-B04825
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v5] iommu/fsl: Add iommu domain attributes
> required by fsl PAMU driver.
>
> On 12/03/2012 10:57:29 AM, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: iommu-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org [mailto:iommu-
> > > bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Roedel
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 7:33 PM
> > > To: Sethi Varun-B16395
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org;
> > Wood
> > > Scott-B07421; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Tabi Timur-B04825
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v5] iommu/fsl: Add iommu domain attributes
> > > required by fsl PAMU driver.
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > [Sethi Varun-B16395] It's possible to map a part of the subwindow i.e.
> > size of the mapping can be less than the sub window size.
> >
> > > > + * 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?
> > >
> > [Sethi Varun-B16395] A feature mechanism to query the type of IOMMU?
>
> A feature mechanism to determine whether this subwindow mechanism is
> available, and what the limits are.
>
So, we use the IOMMU capability interface to find out if IOMMU supports sub windows or not, right? But still number of sub windows would be specified as a part of the geometry and the valid value for sub windows would 0,1 or actual number of sub windows.

-Varun




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