On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:13:47PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > On 30/05/2019 18:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:09:24PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > >> Some systems implement virtio-iommu as a PCI endpoint. The operating > >> system needs to discover the relationship between IOMMU and masters long > >> before the PCI endpoint gets probed. Add a PCI child node to describe the > >> virtio-iommu device. > >> > >> The virtio-pci-iommu is conceptually split between a PCI programming > >> interface and a translation component on the parent bus. The latter > >> doesn't have a node in the device tree. The virtio-pci-iommu node > >> describes both, by linking the PCI endpoint to "iommus" property of DMA > >> master nodes and to "iommu-map" properties of bus nodes. > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx> > > > > So this is just an example right? > > We are not defining any new properties or anything like that. > > Yes it's just an example. The properties already exist but it's good to > describe how to put them together for this particular case, because > there isn't a precedent describing the topology for an IOMMU that > appears on the PCI bus. > > > I think down the road for non dt platforms we want to put this > > info in the config space of the device. I do not think ACPI > > is the best option for this since not all systems have it. > > But that can wait. > > There is the probe order problem - PCI needs this info before starting > to probe devices on the bus. This isn't all that special - it's pretty common for IOMMUs to be pci devices. The solution is to have the device on bus 0. For example, add it with DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY or DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_EARLY in e.g. arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c or drivers/pci/quirks.c You can also use the configuration access capability if there's need to access the device before its memory is enabled. > Maybe we could store the info in a separate > memory region, that is referenced on the command-line and that the guest > can read early. > > Thanks, > Jean The point is to avoid command line hacks. Devices should be self describing. -- MST