Re: [PATCH v2 03/40] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces

Jacob Pan
2018-09-05T18:18:35Z

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:14:12 +0200
Auger Eric <eric.auger-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > + *
> > + * On Arm and AMD IOMMUs, entry 0 of the PASID table can be used
> > to hold
> > + * non-PASID translations. In this case PASID 0 is reserved and
> > entry 0 points
> > + * to the io_pgtable base. On Intel IOMMU, the io_pgtable base
> > would be held in
> > + * the device table and PASID 0 would be available to the
> > allocator.
> > + */
> very nice explanation
With the new Vt-d 3.0 spec., 2nd level IO page table base is no longer
held in the device context table. Instead it is held in the PASID table
entry pointed by the RID_PASID field in the device context entry. If
RID_PASID = 0, then it is the same as ARM and AMD IOMMUs.
You can refer to ch3.4.3 of the VT-d spec.