On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:24:54PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> +/*
> + * Check and return whether first level is used by default for
> + * DMA translation.
> + */
> +static bool first_level_by_default(void)
> +{
> + struct dmar_drhd_unit *drhd;
> + struct intel_iommu *iommu;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + for_each_active_iommu(iommu, drhd)
> + if (!sm_supported(iommu) ||
> + !ecap_flts(iommu->ecap) ||
> + !cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap))
> + return false;
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + return true;
> +}
"If no caching mode, then we will not use 1st level."
Hmm, does the vIOMMU needs to support caching-mode if with the
solution you proposed here? Caching mode is only necessary for
shadowing AFAICT, and after all you're going to use full-nested,
then... then I would think it's not needed. And if so, with this
patch 1st level will be disabled. Sounds like a paradox...
I'm thinking what would be the big picture for this to work now: For
the vIOMMU, instead of exposing the caching-mode, I'm thinking maybe
we should expose it with ecap.FLTS=1 while we can keep ecap.SLTS=0
then it's natural that we can only use 1st level translation in the
guest for all the domains (and I assume such an ecap value should
never happen on real hardware, am I right?).
Regards,
--
Peter Xu
