RE: RMRR device on non-Intel platform

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> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:58 PM
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 03:48:11PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > On 2023-04-21 18:58, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 06:22:37PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think a slightly more considered and slightly less wrong version of that
> > > > idea is to mark it as IOMMU_RESV_MSI, and special-case direct-
> mapping those
> > > > on Arm (I believe it would technically be benign to do on x86 too, but
> might
> > > > annoy people with its pointlessness). However...
> > >
> > > I'd rather have a IOMMU_RESV_MSI_DIRECT and put the ARM special
> case
> > > in ARM code..
> >
> > Maybe, but it's still actually broken either way, because how do you get
> > that type into the VM? Firmware can't encode that a particular RMR
> > represents the special magic hack for IOMMUFD, so now the SMMU driver
> needs
> > to somehow be aware when it's running in a VM offering nested
> translation
> > and do some more magic to inject the appropriate region, and it's all
> > just... no.
> 
> Er, I figured ARM had sorted this out somehow :(
> 
> Eric, do you know anything about this? Where did you setup the 1:1 map
> in the VM in your series?
> 

Out of curiosity. Does this flag have different meaning on s1 vs. s2?

for s1 it means 1:1 mapping.

for s2 it has same meaning as IOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI stands?




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