RE: [PATCH 1/4] iommu: Add a broken_unmanaged_domain flag in iommu_ops

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> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2023 4:04 AM
> 
> Both IOMMU_DOMAIN_UNMANAGED and IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA require
> the support
> of __IOMMU_DOMAIN_PAGING capability, i.e. iommu_map/unmap.
> However,
> some older iommu drivers do not fully support that, and these drivers
> also do not advertise support for dma-iommu.c via IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA,
> or use arm_iommu_create_mapping(), so largely their implementations
> of IOMMU_DOMAIN_UNMANAGED are untested. This means that a user like
> vfio/iommufd does not likely work with them.
> 
> Several of them have obvious problems:
>   * fsl_pamu_domain.c
>     Without map/unmap ops in the default_domain_ops, it isn't an
>     unmanaged domain at all.
>   * mtk_iommu_v1.c
>     With a fixed 4M "pagetable", it can only map exactly 4G of
>     memory, but doesn't set the aperture.
>   * tegra-gart.c
>     Its notion of attach/detach and groups has to be a complete lie to
>     get around all the other API expectations.
> 
> Some others might work but have never been tested with vfio/iommufd:
>   * msm_iommu.c
>   * omap-iommu.c
>   * tegra-smmu.c
> 

Do we have a link where all drivers tested with vfio/iommufd have been
listed?

In a quick glance at least exynos-iommu.c and apple-dart.c both support
UNMANAGED with map/unmap ops. They are not mentioned in above
list but I doubt they are tested for vfio/iommufd.




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