Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update HWPT_PAGING and HWPT_NESTED

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 07:15:03PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> +- IOMMUFD_OBJ_HWPT_NESTED, representing an actual hardware I/O page table
> +  (i.e. a single struct iommu_domain) managed by user space (e.g. guest OS).
> +  "NESTED" indicates that this type of HWPT should be linked to an HWPT_PAGING.
> +  It also indicates that it is backed by an iommu_domain that has a type of
> +  IOMMU_DOMAIN_NESTED. This must be a stage-1 domain for a device running in
> +  the user space (e.g. in a guest VM enabling the IOMMU nested translation
> +  feature.) So it must be created with a given nesting parent stage-2 domain
              "As such, it must be ..."
> +  to associate to. This nested stage-1 page table managed by the user space
> +  usually has mappings from guest-level I/O virtual addresses to guest-level
> +  physical addresses.

Thanks.

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