On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 15:52 +0100, Jacek Lawrynowicz wrote: > This patch solves IOMMU support issues with PCIe non-transparent bridges > that use Requester ID look-up tables (LUT), e.g. PEX8733. Before exiting > the bridge, packet's RID is rewritten according to LUT programmed by > a driver. Modified packets are then passed to a destination bus and > processed upstream. The problem is that such packets seem to come from > non-existent nodes that are hidden behind NTB and are not discoverable > by a destination node, so IOMMU discards them. Adding DMA alias for a > given LUT entry allows IOMMU to create a proper mapping that enables > inter-node communication. > > The current DMA alias implementation supports only single alias, so it's > not possible to connect more than two nodes when IOMMU is enabled. This > implementation enables all possible aliases on a given bus (256) that > are stored in a bitset. Alias devfn is directly translated to a bit > number. The bitset is not allocated for devices that have no need for > DMA aliases. > > More details can be found in following article: > http://www.plxtech.com/files/pdf/technical/expresslane/RTC_Enabling%20MulitHostSystemDesigns.pdf > > Signed-off-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-By: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx> ... for both. -- dwmw2
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